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The bug

An attribute filter selecting exactly the same elements scores as a mismatch when the agent emits them in a different order than the fixture lists them.

_split_and_normalize_filters serialises each normalised filter with json.dumps(..., sort_keys=True). That orders the dict keysfield_uri, state, type — and never descends into the list under state["include"]. So the two serialisations differ and check_filters compares them with ==.

Reproducible with no workspace and no network:

check_filters(viz(["Inter-region", "Intra-region"]),
              viz(["Intra-region", "Inter-region"])).attribute_ok
# False   -- same two elements, reversed
Case attribute_ok before
include identical order True
include reversed False
include 3 shuffled False
exclude reversed False

Why it matters

include/exclude name a set of elements. An agent has no reason to keep their order stable between runs, so any question needing a multi-element attribute filter passed or failed partly at random — non-determinism inside scoring, reported as filters_correct: false and indistinguishable from the agent genuinely filtering wrongly.

Found on what-is-cross-border-approval-rate-in-the (micai_diagnose_master, gpt-5.2): metrics and dimensions correct, filters_correct false, expected ["Inter-region", "Intra-region"] against actual ["Intra-region", "Inter-region"]. Both select every non-Domestic, non-Unknown row — confirmed against the live workspace, where cross_border_name has exactly Domestic / Inter-region / Intra-region / Unknown.

It also silently taxed the alternatives mechanism: admitting an order-insensitive answer via fixture candidates needs one per permutation — 2 for two elements, 6 for three.

The fix

Sort the element lists during normalisation. Sorting rather than comparing as sets keeps the canonical JSON string normalized_filters reports for debugging, and keeps both sides in one place.

key=str rather than a bare sorted(): a mixed-type list (["A", 2]) would raise TypeError from inside scoring, which is worse than the mismatch this fixes. validate_cross_references already reports malformed filter values separately, so this only has to stay comparable.

Scope — the adjacent normalisers are clean

Checked rather than assumed:

  • _normalize_ranking_filter emits {dim_uri, metric_uri, top, type} — all scalars.
  • _normalize_date_filter emits {dataset_uri, from, to, type} — all scalars.

So state's element lists are the only ordered value in filter normalisation.

Worth noting the contrast: multiple attribute filters already compared order-insensitively, because _split_and_normalize_filters collects entries into a set. The set was right; the list inside each member was not. That makes this a one-line change with no structural risk.

Tests

7 added. 6 fail against the previous version; the 7th is the negative control. They pin the boundaries a "sort it" fix could plausibly break:

  • a genuinely different element set still fails (the guard against "pass everything")
  • include of the same elements still differs from exclude of them
  • the same elements on a different label still differ
  • a mixed-type list stays comparable instead of crashing

921 passed, lint and format clean.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Attribute filters now produce consistent scoring results regardless of the order of included or excluded values.
    • Filters with mixed value types are handled reliably without scoring errors.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for reordered values, differing filter contents, state keys, label references, and multi-value filters.

… sequence

An attribute filter selecting exactly the same elements scored as a mismatch when
the agent emitted them in a different order than the fixture listed them.

_split_and_normalize_filters serialises each normalised filter with
json.dumps(..., sort_keys=True). That orders the dict KEYS -- field_uri, state,
type -- and never descends into the list under state["include"], so the two
serialisations differed and check_filters compared them with ==.

`include`/`exclude` name a SET of elements. An agent has no reason to keep their
order stable between runs, so any question needing a multi-element attribute
filter passed or failed partly at random -- non-determinism inside scoring,
reported as `filters_correct: false` and indistinguishable from the agent
genuinely filtering wrongly.

Found on what-is-cross-border-approval-rate-in-the (micai_diagnose_master,
gpt-5.2): metrics and dimensions correct, filters_correct false, with expected
["Inter-region", "Intra-region"] against actual ["Intra-region", "Inter-region"].
Both select every non-Domestic, non-Unknown row.

Sorting during normalisation rather than comparing as sets keeps the canonical
JSON string that normalized_filters reports for debugging, and keeps both sides
in one place. `key=str` because a mixed-type list would raise TypeError from
inside scoring, which is worse than the mismatch this fixes; malformed filter
values are reported by validate_cross_references separately.

The other two normalisers were checked and are unaffected: _normalize_ranking_filter
and _normalize_date_filter emit only scalars, so state's element lists are the only
ordered value in filter normalisation. Multiple attribute filters already compared
order-insensitively, since _split_and_normalize_filters collects entries into a set
-- the set was right, the list inside each member was not.

7 tests, 6 of which fail against the previous version; the 7th is the negative
control that a genuinely different element set still fails. 921 passed, lint and
format clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Attribute filter normalization now sorts list-valued state entries before scoring. Tests cover permutations, distinct values, state keys, labels, and mixed-type values.

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_normalize_attribute_filter sorts state lists with key=str. Tests verify order-independent matches, genuine mismatches, and mixed-type values.

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I sort the filters, soft and neat
So shuffled values still compete
Include and exclude find their way
Mixed types safely join the play
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In `@packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/scoring.py`:
- Line 178: Update the state normalization around raw_state so list sorting uses
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such as [1, "1"] and ["1", 1] normalize identically. Preserve the existing
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Review finding, and correct. `key=str` maps 1 and "1" to the same key, so
Python's stable sort leaves THEIR relative order exactly as the agent emitted
it -- and the ordering bug this PR fixes survives for that one pair. [1, "1"]
and ["1", 1] still serialised differently and still scored as different filters.

The key is now the element's own canonical JSON. That keeps what str() was
chosen for -- a mixed-type list must not raise TypeError from inside scoring --
while distinguishing the types the comparison downstream also distinguishes.
Safe here because these values are always parsed JSON, so json.dumps cannot
fail on them; that provenance is what makes it a total ordering.

Two tests: the type-collision pair now compares equal without making 1 and "1"
interchangeable as element sets, and a heterogeneous list sorts without raising.
The first fails against key=str.

923 passed, lint and format clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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