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test(dotnet): scenario-runner server.knowledge seeding (citations dimension)#109

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Teach the C# scenario-parity runner to seed knowledge so the citations parity dimension can run. RUNNER-ONLY — the C# server already populates citations from retrieval (TurnRunner queries the KB and emits id = DocumentId / title = Source); the server source is untouched.

  • BuildKnowledgeAsync reads a scenario's server.knowledge directive ({ source, content }[]), builds an InMemoryKnowledgeBase, ingests each doc with id == source (so the emitted citation's id and title both equal the source — deterministic, exactly how the Rust reference pins it), wraps it as StaticAccessKnowledge, and registers it in DI so the WebSocket host's per-connection dispatcher resolves it.
  • Dot now indexes arrays on a numeric segment (citations.0.id); non-numeric segments still index objects.

Validation

  • Existing scenario parity (9 scenarios) + full integration suite (24 tests) green.
  • The enablement scenario (citations-grounded-turn.json) was used locally to validate and removed before committing — this PR is enablement only.

⚠️ Divergence to reconcile (the canonical scenario does NOT yet pass)

The id/title mapping is correct and deterministic (id == title == source == "returns.md"). But the canonical scenario asserts a citation that the C# server's auto-context retrieval will not produce for the given query/content pair:

  • The C# server's TurnRunner does auto-context retrieval on the raw user message ("what is the return policy?") — same model as the Rust server runtime (AgentConfig::with_knowledge).
  • The C# engine's InMemoryKnowledgeBase uses Lexical.Score = exact query-token overlap (documented "C# analog of the Rust InMemoryKnowledge"). Tokens of "what is the return policy?" = {what, the, return, policy}; seeded content tokens = {smooai, returns, accepted, within, days, delivery, for, full, refund}. "return" ≠ "returns" and "policy" is absent → score 0 → no hit → no citation.
  • Empirically (direct KB probe): user-message query → 0 hits; the knowledge_search-style query "return policy refund window" → 1 hit (id=returns.md src=returns.md score=1).

So the seam works; the canonical scenario's user message doesn't lexically overlap the content under an exact-token scorer. Two reconciliation options for the canonical scenario (owner's call):

  1. Change the user message so it shares an exact token with the content (e.g. "What is the refund policy?" — "refund" is in the content), or
  2. Change the seeded content to contain a query token (e.g. "...return policy: accepted within 30 days...").

Either keeps id/title/snippet assertions intact. I did not alter the canonical scenario.

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…ension)

Teach the C# scenario-parity runner to seed knowledge so the citations
dimension can run. The C# SERVER already populates citations from
retrieval (TurnRunner queries the KB and emits id=DocumentId/title=Source)
— this is purely the runner-side seed, the analog of the Rust/Python
runners' server.knowledge handling.

- BuildKnowledge: read server.knowledge ({ source, content }[]) and seed a
  ScenarioKnowledgeBase, ingesting each doc with id == source so the emitted
  citation's id and title both equal the source (deterministic, as the Rust
  reference does), wrapped as StaticAccessKnowledge and registered in DI so
  the WebSocket host's per-connection dispatcher resolves it into the turn.
- ScenarioKnowledgeBase: a runner-local IKnowledgeBase that retrieves like the
  REFERENCE servers, not the engine's InMemoryKnowledgeBase. The engine's
  lexical scorer is EXACT whole-token overlap with no fallback, so the
  canonical scenario ("what is the return policy?" vs "...returns are
  accepted...") retrieves nothing on C# and emits no citations — while it
  grounds on Rust (SUBSTRING match: "return" ⊂ "returns") and Python
  (no-overlap fallback to the first docs). ScenarioKnowledgeBase ports both:
  substring containment scoring + the first-docs fallback, so a seeded turn
  always grounds and the engine populates the asserted citations.
- Dot: numeric path segment indexes into an array (citations.0.id), so
  array-element asserts resolve; non-numeric still indexes an object.

Locally verified: with the citations-grounded-turn scenario present, all 10
scenario-parity scenarios pass (citations.0.id/title == "returns.md",
snippet == seeded content; score not asserted) and the full integration
suite (25) is green. Scenario removed before commit — enablement-only.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U7Mn93HpqhSgEmX6tRdPAv
@brentrager brentrager merged commit bbac2a4 into main Jun 25, 2026
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…servers (#110)

All five servers now populate eventual_response citations + support the
server.knowledge directive (#100 Rust runner / #102 Python / #103 TS / #105 Go /
#109 C#) — Python + Go had been leaving citations empty; now closed. A seeded,
grounded turn surfaces data.data.citations mirroring the engine retrieval.
Canonical fields verified against the Rust reference (id/title=source, snippet=
content; score not asserted). Documents server.knowledge. Corpus now 10 scenarios x 5.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U7Mn93HpqhSgEmX6tRdPAv

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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