baseline-replication

Testing & Quality

Run disciplined replication of published or internal baselines with provenance, controls, and validation gates.

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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

Purpose

Reproduce baseline experiments faithfully before new development.
Capture every constraint (data, metrics, hardware, randomness) and document variances.
Produce artifacts that downstream skills can trust (configs, logs, checkpoints).

Trigger Conditions

Positive: requests to replicate a paper’s baseline, re-run internal baselines, validate claims prior to extension.
Negative: greenfield method design (use method-development), or pure prompt tuning (route to prompt-architect).

Guardrails

Structure-first delivery: SKILL + README + examples + references; stash configs/resources alongside outputs.
Constraint extraction in HARD / SOFT / INFERRED buckets with sources (paper, repo, maintainer notes).
Two-pass refinement: (1) structure and environment parity; (2) epistemic validation and variance explanation.
Confidence ceilings enforced; never overstate beyond observation/research limits.

Inputs

Original specification (paper section, repo, config files).
Target hardware/software stack and allowed variance.
Success criteria (metric thresholds, tolerances, reproducibility bounds).

Workflow

Scope & Constraints: Capture dataset versions, metrics, seeds, hardware, and tolerances; confirm INFERRED assumptions.
Environment Parity Plan: Mirror dependencies; document any substitutions and expected impact.
Reproduce Runs: Execute baseline with fixed seeds; log configs, hashes, and environment fingerprints.
Validate: Compare against claimed results with statistical checks; explain deviations.
Package Artifacts: Store configs, logs, checkpoints, and a replication report; update examples/references as needed.

Validation & Quality Gates

Environment parity documented; deviations justified.
Metrics within agreed tolerance or deviation analysis provided.
Replication report includes evidence, seeds, and reproducibility notes.
Confidence line item included with appropriate ceiling (observation 0.95, research 0.85).

Response Template

**Constraints**
- HARD: ...
- SOFT: ...
- INFERRED (confirm): ...

**Plan**
- Environment + run strategy.

**Results**
- Metric(s): ... vs. claim ...
- Variance analysis: ...

**Artifacts**
- Configs/logs: <paths>
- Checkpoints: <paths>

Confidence: 0.82 (ceiling: research 0.85) - based on replicated runs and logged evidence.

Confidence: 0.82 (ceiling: research 0.85) - Assumes replication gates and evidence checks completed.