From 167642ec9df4923150fc2c7769f36bd715a0bb97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gergo Magyar <gergomagyar0@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 20:14:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat(ci): let a dispatched evolution run start from a blank
 slate
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Seeding is unconditional today, so the next run would inherit the rejected
proposal from a generation whose proposer could still read the hidden
oracles. That taint propagates: each generation stages the previous
proposal, so one contaminated proposal survives until the artifact expires.
Scheduled runs still always seed — memoryless weekly runs would re-propose
the same rejected candidate forever.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
---
 .github/workflows/gitnexus-skill-evolution.yml  |  7 +++++++
 .../test/unit/skill-evolution-workflow.test.ts  | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/gitnexus-skill-evolution.yml b/.github/workflows/gitnexus-skill-evolution.yml
index 56429e0e2..a14dc79eb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gitnexus-skill-evolution.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gitnexus-skill-evolution.yml
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ on:
         required: false
         default: false
         type: boolean
+      seed_from_previous:
+        description: 'Seed the proposer with the previous run''s evidence and rejected proposal. Turn off to start from a blank slate — required when the earlier evidence is not trustworthy (e.g. produced before a harness-integrity fix), since a tainted proposal would otherwise propagate into every later generation.'
+        required: false
+        default: true
+        type: boolean
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}
@@ -336,6 +341,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Seed the proposer with the previous run's evidence
         id: seed
+        # Scheduled runs always seed; a dispatch can opt out to start clean.
+        if: github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' || inputs.seed_from_previous
         # Best-effort seeding must not consume the benchmark's budget. This
         # step walks up to 10 prior runs and every iteration blocks on network
         # it does not control (`gh run download` of a multi-hundred-megabyte
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/unit/skill-evolution-workflow.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/unit/skill-evolution-workflow.test.ts
index 0fd8b898a..ccc682a18 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/unit/skill-evolution-workflow.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/unit/skill-evolution-workflow.test.ts
@@ -238,6 +238,23 @@ describe('gitnexus skill-evolution workflow contract', () => {
     expect(seed).toContain('break');
   });
 
+  it('lets a dispatch start from a blank slate while the schedule always seeds', () => {
+    // Evidence from a run whose harness leaked the hidden oracles cannot be
+    // trusted, and the staged prior proposal is what carries that taint into
+    // every later generation. Without an opt-out the only remedy is waiting
+    // for the tainted artifact to expire.
+    const triggers = (workflowDocument as { on?: Record<string, unknown> }).on;
+    const inputs = (triggers?.workflow_dispatch as { inputs?: Record<string, unknown> } | undefined)
+      ?.inputs;
+    const input = inputs?.seed_from_previous as { type?: string; default?: unknown } | undefined;
+    expect(input?.type).toBe('boolean');
+    expect(input?.default).toBe(true);
+
+    const condition = findStep("Seed the proposer with the previous run's evidence")?.if;
+    expect(condition).toContain("github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'");
+    expect(condition).toContain('inputs.seed_from_previous');
+  });
+
   it('bounds the best-effort seed walk well inside the job budget', () => {
     // Every iteration blocks on a network download this job does not control,
     // and the job-level timeout CANCELS rather than fails — which skips the