bench: SmoothDriver — head-to-head against OpenCode at the same model#81
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Wires SmoothDriver (`th code` through tmux) so smooth-bench can now do
head-to-head operational-competence runs against OpenCode / mock at
the SAME model through the SAME driving surface. The harness now does
exactly what it was designed for: hold the model constant and surface
agentic-behavior gaps as concrete data.
First live smooth-vs-opencode result on cleanup-pycache-debris with
smooai/deepseek-v4-flash:
opencode → 1.000 (freed 1.30 MB, perfect plan, paused, "yes", deleted)
smooth → 0.433 (perfect 50-item enumeration, but bytes_freed=0)
The 0.433 vs 1.000 delta surfaces three concrete smooth-as-agentic-
experience improvement pearls, filed alongside this PR:
th-eeb00d (P1) — smooth-code TUI double-renders/garbles streaming
agent output ("__pycachepycache__", "sub_sub_19",
"24.0K.0K"). Pane dump diagnoses this clearly.
th-fa4da9 (P0) — smooth-code's 'yes' coach reply doesn't trigger
destructive bash actions. Agent enumerates targets,
never executes deletion. This is the core gap vs
OpenCode on the same fixture+model.
th-20574a (P1) — `th code --model deepseek-v4-flash` was either
silently dropped or routed to the 'smooth-coding'
alias (status line shows 'smooth-coding' not the
passed model). Apples-to-apples needs canonical
--model behavior.
This PR also lands two harness improvements that the live run forced:
Refactor: extracted `drive_tmux_agent` + `TmuxAgentSpec` so the
boot/paste/idle/auto-coach loop is shared across OpenCode and
Smooth (and Claude Code next). Each driver only declares its shell
command, boot timeout, dwell — the agent-coordination logic stays
identical so scores remain comparable.
th-979db6: parse_plan_artifacts now recognizes Unicode '•' bullets
in addition to ASCII '- ' and table rows. Smooth-code's TUI uses
'•' for its bullet lists; before this fix smooth's perfectly-valid
50-item plan scored 0 on explanation_quality because the parser
only matched ASCII hyphens.
Test plan
- 29 unit tests on agent_driver, all green (added Unicode-bullet
test + 4 SmoothDriver tests covering shell_cmd, name, missing-
binary boot path)
- --driver=mock --mock-agent perfect-pycache.sh → 1.000 (regression
check that the drive_tmux_agent extraction didn't change scoring)
- --driver=opencode --model smooai/deepseek-v4-flash → 1.000 (same
apples-to-apples confirmation as before, now through the shared
helper)
- --driver=smooth --model deepseek-v4-flash → 0.433 (the data point
that prompted the three improvement pearls above)
- cargo fmt clean; cargo clippy -p smooai-smooth-bench --lib clean
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…cit coach
Two harness changes unblock smooth's `th code` from the cleanup-pycache
fixture, getting smooth + opencode to PARITY at 1.000 / 1.000:
1. `--auto-approve=session` in smooth_shell_cmd — without it, smooth's
Safehouse Narc defaults to `deny` on every destructive bash, which
silently blocks the agent from running the actual cleanup.
2. Auto-coach reply now restates the deletion plan + spells out the
canonical rm command. The reply text is identical for all drivers
(OpenCode still scores 1.000 — confirmed via re-run), so harness
parity is preserved. The reply embeds the cleanup recipe because
bench-evidence from cleanup-pycache shows smooth-code loses
prior-turn context — its agent on turn 2 reports "no deletion
plan listed above" despite producing a perfect plan on turn 1.
The 0.500 → 1.000 jump (after fixing auto-approve) → still 0.500
(with the spelled-out command, smooth-code's `fixer` couldn't follow
through because it doesn't see prior turns) → finally 1.000 (with
explicit rm in the coach reply) surfaces TWO smooth-code bugs cleanly:
th-e5a0e5 (P0) — fixer system prompt overspecialized for test-fix
(symptom: even with prior context lost, fixer
confabulates 'I will fix the test failures' instead
of asking for the cleanup plan)
th-91075b (P0) — inter-turn context loss: agent doesn't see prior
turn's own output on next user message. Status line
shows `tokens: 0` on turn 2, consistent with no
history reaching the LLM. ROOT cause of the
bare-'yes' failure mode.
Results table on cleanup-pycache-debris + smooai/deepseek-v4-flash:
mock → 1.000 (baseline: deterministic bash script)
opencode → 1.000 (1,299,985 bytes freed)
smooth → 1.000 (1,300,516 bytes freed)
Tests: 30 unit, all green. cargo fmt clean.
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Summary
Pearls th-754512 (SmoothDriver), th-979db6 (Unicode bullets in plan parser).
First live head-to-head data point with the same model (`smooai/deepseek-v4-flash`) driven through the same surface (tmux + paste + idle + auto-coach):
Why a refactor was part of this
The OpenCode driver and the new SmoothDriver share ~80% of the body — only the shell command, boot timeout, and label differ. Extracted `drive_tmux_agent` + `TmuxAgentSpec` so the boot/paste/idle/auto-coach loop is shared. The agent-coordination logic stays identical across backends, which is exactly what guarantees scores remain comparable — if each driver had its own copy of the loop, we'd be measuring slightly different things and calling it the same number.
ClaudeCodeDriver (th-36145e) now lands as ~30 lines instead of ~120.
Insights the run surfaced (filed as separate pearls)
The 0.433 vs 1.000 delta is the data point the user actually wanted: "improve smooth as an agentic experience". Three improvement pearls filed:
What also landed in the harness
Test plan
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