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The conversation evaluator can now grade gen-ai's clarifying questions. Every key is opt-in: a fixture without them scores exactly as before.

  • Grade the first reply. expects_clarification, expected_clarification_form, max_clarifying_questions, clarifying_options_grounded. Each {type/id} option must name an object in the workspace.
  • Answer the questionnaire like the chat panel. clarifying_answers sends a clarifyingAnswers message and leaves the questions it does not pick as skipped. states_skipped_assumption, skipped_questions_not_reasked and expects_confirmation_after_answers check what the agent does after a skip.
  • Check plain-text options. clarifying_option_titles requires every option to be an existing object title. clarifying_option_objects requires every option to name one of the candidate objects, for example two charts that share a title.

Clarification checks fail context_success and report turn_<id>_clarification_correct. Legacy mode never grades them, so a fixture that uses them raises an error there.

Test plan

  • make format lint type-check and TEST_ENVS=py314 make test on each commit: 2578, 2610 and 2628 passed.
  • Live on an ecommerce_demo workspace with gpt-5.6-luna (QA-30039 items).
    • Visualization, alert and anomaly questions are graded.
    • A picked measure is charted.
    • Skipping every question leads to a stated assumption.
    • A dashboard build stops for confirmation.
    • For the Net Sales Breakdown chart, invented options fail. Options that name the chart by reference or chart type pass.

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low: eval tooling only, all keys opt-in.

jira: QA-30039
risk: low

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  • New Features
    • Added checks for whether an assistant asks for clarification in the expected format and within a configured question limit.
    • Clarification options can be checked against known workspace items, titles, and expected candidates.
    • Added support for simulating questionnaire answers, including skipped questions, and checking how follow-up responses handle unanswered questions and confirmation.
    • Structured answers can now be submitted to clarification questionnaires, with the related question reference retained in chat results.
    • Clarification results are included in turn details and evaluation scores, and incompatible clarification settings are rejected.

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The change adds clarification parsing and grading, workspace-option checks, structured questionnaire answers, and conversation-runner reporting. The SSE client retains questionnaire item IDs and supports sending clarification answers.

Changes: Clarification Evaluation and Responses

Layer / File(s) Summary
Carry questionnaire item IDs and send answers
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/chat/sse_client.py, packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/models.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_sse_client.py
The SSE parser retains the item ID for clarifying questions. ChatClient can send structured answers, and tests cover parsing and request payloads.
Parse and grade clarification options
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/_clarification.py, packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/_conversation_context.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_agentic_conversation.py
Helpers parse the first reply and check clarification form, question count, workspace references, option titles, and candidate objects. Tests cover workspace catalog retrieval and option checks.
Build answers and check follow-up behavior
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/_clarification.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_agentic_conversation.py
Answer helpers match picks to options, record skipped questions, and identify configured post-answer mismatches. Tests cover structured answers and follow-up checks.
Integrate clarification checks into conversation runs
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/conversation.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_agentic_conversation.py
The runner validates clarification settings, sends structured answers, grades replies, and includes results in turn details and traces.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ConversationRunner
  participant ChatClient
  participant SSEParser
  participant WorkspaceCatalog
  ConversationRunner->>ChatClient: Send conversation message
  ChatClient->>SSEParser: Parse streamed response
  SSEParser-->>ChatClient: Return questionnaire and item ID
  ChatClient-->>ConversationRunner: Return first reply
  ConversationRunner->>WorkspaceCatalog: List entities for option checks
  ConversationRunner->>ChatClient: Send answers with questionnaire item ID
  ConversationRunner->>ConversationRunner: Grade clarification and follow-up replies
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packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_agentic_conversation.py: 1

2552-2553: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Annotate the nested _capture helper.

The new _capture(_submit, _identity, **kwargs) has no type annotations. The repository rule requires annotations on every function. The new helper at Line 1771 already follows the rule: _capture(_submit: object, _identity: object, **kwargs: object) -> None. Use the same signature here.

♻️ Proposed fix
-    def _capture(_submit, _identity, **kwargs):
+    def _capture(_submit: object, _identity: object, **kwargs: object) -> None:
         captured["write_scores"] = kwargs["write_scores"]

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around lines 2552 - 2553:
Add the repository-required type annotations to the nested _capture helper,
matching the annotated _capture signature elsewhere: annotate _submit and
_identity as object, **kwargs as object, and the return type as None.

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- Around line 2552-2553: Add the repository-required type annotations to the
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The conversation evaluator scored only what a turn finally produced, so
it could not tell an agent that asked the clarifying question the
request needs from one that guessed, nor one that asked about something
the request already settled. gen-ai now asks closed choices as a
clarifyingQuestions part, and none of that was visible to a fixture.

A turn gains four opt-in keys, read from its first complete reply
before any simulated-user answer:

- expects_clarification: true means the reply must ask, false means it
  must not. A confirmation is not a question, but a question followed
  by a confirmation phrase ("A or B? Please confirm.") is.
- expected_clarification_form: questionnaire (a clarifyingQuestions
  part) or text (a question in prose only).
- max_clarifying_questions: the questionnaire asks at most this many.
- clarifying_options_grounded: every {type/id} option names an object
  of the workspace. The workspace's metrics, attributes, labels, facts,
  datasets, parameters, dashboards and visualizations are listed on
  each turn that checks, so an object an earlier turn created counts.
  An attribute and its label accept each other, {date/...} names a
  date dataset and {date_attribute/...} an attribute. gen-ai types no
  listing holds (computed_attribute, filter_context, document, report)
  stay unchecked.

A mismatch fails context_success and is listed in failure_reasons, and
the turn reports turn_<id>_clarification_correct to Langfuse. The last
three keys need expects_clarification: true and are rejected otherwise,
since they would pass without a question; the last two also fail a
question asked in prose. Legacy mode never lets these checks fail an
item, so a fixture with expects_clarification raises there. Without the
keys nothing changes: no check, no score, the same turn detail.

The entity API links a next page from every page, an empty one too, so
the listing stops on a short page instead. A kind the server lacks
(404) is empty. A listing that fails leaves the turn ungraded rather
than passed or the run ended: no clarification_correct score, and the
reason as clarification_ungraded in the turn detail. A mismatch the
listing is not needed for still fails the turn. Neither the listing nor a
reply the server cut short counts toward what the turn is graded on or
its run latency.

Checked live on an ecommerce_demo workspace with gpt-5.6-luna: three
QA-30039 items (visualization, alert, anomaly detection) with all four
keys set pass, and the workspace listing returns.

jira: QA-30039
risk: low
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The conversation evaluator answered every clarifying question with
text, so it never sent what the chat panel sends: a clarifyingAnswers
message with the picked positions and the texts shown, where a
question left out is skipped. Skipping, and what the agent does after
a skip, could not be evaluated.

ChatResult keeps the itemId of the assistant item holding a
clarifyingQuestions part, and each such part keeps its item's id, since
gen-ai numbers questions within the item an answer names.
ChatClient.send_clarifying_answers sends the message with it as
questionsItemId. send_message and the new method share one request
path, so options and user context apply to both.

A turn gains opt-in keys, all needing expects_clarification: true:

- clarifying_answers: picks for the questionnaire of the turn's first
  reply, sent even when the judge flags that question as lost context,
  since the fixture expects it. A pick
  names an option by a type/id reference or its whole text, or lists
  both spellings, since the agent writes options either way; it may
  name the question's position. attribute/x and label/x match each
  other. A question no pick matches is skipped, and an empty list skips
  them all. Later questions, a follow-up confirmation included, still
  get set_answers text. A pick no questionnaire offered fails the turn,
  and so do answers never sent, with the reason: the first reply asked
  no questionnaire, delivered the output with it, had no itemId, or the
  clarification budget ended the turn.
- states_skipped_assumption: a reply after the answers names an option
  of each skipped question, by a whole reference or its text as whole
  words; the reply asking for confirmation usually states it. A mention
  stands in for the stated assumption.
- skipped_questions_not_reasked: no later questionnaire asks a skipped
  question again, judged by its text or its option set. Yes/No style
  options fit any question, a confirmation too, so they count only
  with the same text.
- expects_confirmation_after_answers: the reply to the answers is not
  the output. A skip is not an approval, so the agent stops first.

The transcript records the answers as the text gen-ai builds for the
model from them. Without the keys nothing changes.

Checked live on an ecommerce_demo workspace with gpt-5.6-luna: a picked
sales measure is sent and charted, skipping every question leads to a
stated assumption with no re-ask, and a dashboard build stops for
confirmation after a skip.

jira: QA-30039
risk: low
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
clarifying_options_grounded reads only {type/id} options, but gen-ai
also writes options as plain names. Asked to describe a chart whose
title two charts share, it offers names that point at no chart or at
the wrong one: the second chart's description, which is a third
chart's title, or a paraphrase like "Net Sales version". A user
picking such an option gets another chart described.

The workspace listing now keeps each object's title and each chart's
type, and a turn gains two opt-in keys, both needing
expects_clarification: true:

- clarifying_option_titles: an object kind (visualization, metric,
  dashboard, attribute, fact, dataset). Every plain-text option must be
  the title of such an object, alone or followed by context in brackets
  or after a dash, comma or colon, as two charts with one title need.
- clarifying_option_objects: the type/id objects the question is about.
  Every option must name one of them, by reference, by its title with
  that context, or by its chart type ("Donut chart") when no other
  candidate has that type and the option does not start with another
  object's title. A reference or title of any other object fails.

Both read only the questions they are about: a question with at least
one option the check accepts. A questionnaire that also asks for a
channel or a breakdown no longer fails on those options. When no
question is about the check, every option it reads fails. Grounding
still reads every question. Like grounding, both leave the turn
ungraded when the workspace cannot be read.

The listing now goes through gooddata_sdk's EntitiesApi with
load_all_entities, retrying a transient failure as a chat message is.
It is read only when the first reply is a questionnaire with options,
and kept for the run until the run creates or updates a metric or an
alert.

Checked live on an ecommerce_demo workspace with gpt-5.6-luna, asking
to describe the Net Sales Breakdown chart, which a donut and a
waterfall chart are titled: options naming invented versions fail,
options naming the two charts by reference or by chart type pass.

jira: QA-30039
risk: low
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/_clarification.py: 1

123-123: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Annotate the empty questions list.

The repository guideline says to annotate every local whose type is not obvious, "especially empty collection initializers". questions = [] has no annotation. Add one.

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-    questions = []
+    questions: list[QuestionOptions] = []
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Add an explicit list type annotation to the local questions initializer, using
the element type consistent with the QuestionOptions values added to it.

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