Add Market: poll a simulated audience on which option it prefers

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What

POST /v1/market/compare (account-billed) polls a panel of simulated US adults on which of 2–4 short options they prefer — taglines, pricing framings, feature choices — plus a compare_market_preference MCP tool on the account server.

Live and verified in prod:

audience: "US public school teachers"
summer-off vs 15% raise → raise 60/40, position_bias 0.17 (honest tie-ish)

audience: "US registered nurses working in hospitals"
gig-style scheduling vs HR-approved+benefits → 87/13; single nurses 3.6× more
drawn to same-day pay than married nurses (0.21 vs 0.06)

audience: "US adults who read news online daily"
free-with-ads vs $8 clean → paid 61/39 overall; bachelors 73/27 paid,
18–24 flips to free 56/44

Cold audience ≈ 2–15s and ~$0.015; cached audience ≈ 0.6–2s and ~$0.001–0.013. Second call reproduced the first's shares to three decimals.

How

Corpus: 284,913 adult personas rendered from Nemotron-Personas-USA (CC BY 4.0, census-grounded), embedded (512-dim, text-embedding-3-small) into market_personas in a separate Neon DB behind optional secret MARKET_DATABASE_URL (503 without it; loader: scripts/market-corpus.py).
Audience resolution, cached forever by hash: hybrid tsvector + pgvector shortlist → one Jev Score per candidate with ruling-out level semantics (broad behavioral audiences stay "plausible" instead of collapsing to "adjacent") → seeded weighted sample. Same audience string ⇒ same panel ⇒ comparable repeated experiments; a recipe-version constant is folded into the hash so prompt changes never reuse stale panels.
Votes: one Jev Choice per panelist, options shared through state, 40 personas/batch (jaggedness: large state = distractors), option order counterbalanced. Aggregation is probability-mass, not argmax — Jev is deliberately consistent, and argmax herds near-identical personas into fabricated 99/1 splits. Order effect is reported as position_bias; intervals use Kish effective sample size; mean_certainty separates decisive panels from torn ones; segments (age/sex/education/region/marital) at n ≥ 25.
Billing mirrors classification: reservation extended before every provider call, settled to measured usage; the one embedding per audience miss is infrastructure cost, kept off the meter so settlements never fall to review.
Bug found on the way: HNSW caps results at hnsw.ef_search (40) regardless of LIMIT — retrieval silently starved panels until the SET LOCAL rides in the same transaction.

Honest limits (documented in the DOCS section)

Estimates relative preference, never conversion/market size.
Panels aren't yet post-stratified to census margins; audiences phrased around online behavior skew young. Raking weights is the obvious follow-up.
Corpus is US adults only; unrepresentable audiences 422 instead of approximating.

Checks

bun test: 859 pass / 0 fail (new: market unit tests incl. counterbalancing, halving recovery, weighted aggregation; MCP wiring pin; api-contract + runtime-config pins updated)
tsc --noEmit clean; deployed by hand and exercised in prod (REST + MCP), including billing settle + refund paths.
CI durability: MARKET_DATABASE_URL added to repo secrets and to the deploy secrets-file as an optional entry.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added market preference comparisons through the API and, when enabled, the MCP tool. Results include weighted preference estimates, uncertainty ranges, position-bias diagnostics, and eligible demographic segments.
- Added optional persona-corpus database configuration for the comparison endpoint.
Documentation
- Documented endpoint inputs, outputs, population limits, availability, and interpretation. Clarified that estimates do not represent conversion, purchase rates, or market size.

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Add Market: poll a simulated audience on which option it prefers

b54c808Sep 25

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Walkthrough

Adds a market comparison endpoint that selects a simulated persona panel, gathers and aggregates preference votes, and reports usage and pricing. Adds tools to load the persona corpus and run the pipeline locally, plus HTTP and MCP access, API documentation, deployment configuration, and tests.

Changes

Market comparison

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Persona corpus ingestion and configuration `.github/workflows/deploy.yml`, `scripts/market-corpus.py`, `tests/runtime-config.test.ts`, `wrangler.example.toml`	Adds adult persona rendering, embedding, and database insertion. Deployment configuration can provide `MARKET_DATABASE_URL` when set.
Panel scoring, voting, and aggregation `src/market.ts`, `scripts/market-live.ts`, `test/market.test.ts`	Adds request parsing, deterministic panel sampling, batched voting with retries, and weighted aggregation. The command-line harness runs the pipeline and prints its result; tests cover the market functions and optional MCP tool.
HTTP endpoint, MCP tool, and API contract `src/http/account-api.ts`, `src/http/market.ts`, `src/http/mcp.ts`, `src/mcp.ts`, `src/openapi.ts`, `src/docs.ts`, `test/api-contract.test.ts`	Adds the account-authenticated comparison route, panel resolution, token reservation and settlement, and analytics. Wires the route into MCP and documents the API request and response.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant accountApi
  participant accountMarket
  participant PersonaDatabase
  participant Jev
  Client->>accountApi: POST /v1/market/compare
  accountApi->>accountMarket: Dispatch request
  accountMarket->>PersonaDatabase: Resolve or store audience panel
  accountMarket->>Jev: Score membership and run panel votes
  Jev-->>accountMarket: Membership scores and votes
  accountMarket->>accountMarket: Aggregate results and settle token reservation
  accountMarket-->>Client: Comparison results and billing headers

Suggested reviewers: myxamediyar

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b54c8

The new market endpoint works, but a few problems remain before merge. First, failed audience requests are fully refunded even after paid scoring has run, so the same failing request can be repeated to run up costs for free. Second, removing the database secret does not turn the endpoint off. Third, the corpus loader writes garbled interest text into personas. Fourth, it can mislabel or skip personas when a load is resumed. Fix these before merging, or explicitly accept them.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b54c8

Authenticated callers can trigger provider work that may not be charged when a comparison fails. Concurrent first requests may also use different panels despite the promise that the same audience produces a stable panel. Existing account checks limit who can invoke the feature, but they do not resolve those lifecycle questions.

Retained concerns

Medium · security · inferred: Failed comparisons can leave provider work uncharged: cache-miss embeddings are outside metering, and a request rejected after membership scoring refunds its token reservation. An active account credential could repeat costly failing requests.
Medium · reliability · inferred: Concurrent first resolutions of one shared audience key can return locally computed panels without using the panel that won the cache insert, weakening the same-audience comparability contract.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

inferred — The identified spend path requires an active account-agent credential and a configured market deployment. Its potential impact is shared provider spending and service capacity, not demonstrated access to another account’s private request or credentials.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

inferred — A credentialed caller can vary valid audience inputs to create cache misses. Embedding occurs before any provider-call reservation extension; membership scoring can then be followed by a panel-size rejection that takes the full-refund path. Whether this is exploited or rate-limited in production is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The MCP route checks an account credential and forwards its original Authorization header. The market handler independently calls account authorization before corpus access, while per-call reservation extensions constrain metered inference.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

inferred — The globally shared cache makes panel creation a cross-request ownership decision. Without rereading after a conflicting insert, the first responses are not guaranteed to use the durable panel that later requests inherit.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Bound or meter cache-miss embeddings and account for provider work already consumed when a comparison fails, while preserving admission checks before further model calls.
proposed — Make cache creation return the persisted winner to every concurrent caller, and verify the deployed table’s key and panel-integrity constraints before relying on this invariant.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/deploy.yml:
- Line 178: Update the deployment flow that builds the secrets file with
JSON.stringify to explicitly delete the deployed MARKET_DATABASE_URL secret when
the option is disabled, rather than only omitting it from the file; preserve the
existing secret-file behavior when MARKET_DATABASE_URL is set.

In `@scripts/market-corpus.py`:
- Around line 73-75: Parse the list-formatted `hobbies_and_interests_list`
string into individual entries before selecting interests; then keep the
existing trimming, empty-entry filtering, and first-three limit so panel text
and embeddings contain complete hobbies rather than string characters.
- Line 113: Persona IDs are derived from the invocation-dependent shard index
`si`, so resumed or reordered shard runs can reuse IDs for different rows.
Update the ID calculation around `base` to use a stable source identifier, or
persist and reuse the original shard-to-index mapping before allowing resume;
ensure each shard retains the same ID range across invocations.

In `@scripts/market-live.ts`:
- Around line 39-40: Validate the database URL and provider keys in the setup
around `neon` and `jevKeys` before connecting or querying: exit early with a
clear message if both URL variables are unset or `jevKeys` returns no keys.
Remove the non-null assertions and pass the validated values onward.

In `@src/http/market.ts`:
- Around line 233-236: Update the catch path around reservationQueue and
refundTokenReservation to settle measured meter.tokens usage when provider calls
succeeded, and refund only when none succeeded. Wrap refundTokenReservation in
its own try/catch so a refund failure does not replace the original error.

In `@src/openapi.ts`:
- Line 708: Update the accountMarket response definitions in the OpenAPI spec to
use err(...) entries for 400, 401, 402, 403, 405, 413, 422, 502, and 503. Ensure
the 422 response also includes the error content schema provided by err(...).

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