Five improvements that eliminate most of the agent-in-the-loop friction
observed while closing out the 988-entity WoN evaluation (C.1):
1. Gemini adapter now retries on 429 + 5xx with exponential backoff
(same pattern already used by OpenRouter/OpenAI). Removes the need
for shell-level retry wrappers when hitting free-tier rate limits.
2. evaluate CLI prints the underlying error ("ERROR — HTTP 503 …")
instead of a bare "ERROR", so agents don't have to drop into Python
to diagnose transient failures.
3. --entity/--chapter now respect existing evaluation files by default
(previously only the full-collection pass did). New --force flag
opts into re-evaluation. Stops silently burning free-tier quota on
re-runs of the same slug.
4. --entity accepts hyphenated slugs (matching entity filenames) and
normalizes them to the underscore form used on disk. On a miss the
CLI suggests near matches instead of a bare "not found".
5. eval-summary --update-metrics is no longer destructive:
read_metrics_file/write_metrics_file preserve structured values
(type_distribution) and don't flatten ints to floats. Fixes a
silent data loss observed on every run.
Bonus: the evaluator field in written evaluation frontmatter now
falls back from run_config.model_name to the adapter's resolved model
(or the model echoed back in the API response), so rows no longer
show `evaluator: null` when --model is omitted.
Tests: new tests/unit/llm/test_gemini.py covers retry behavior;
tests/unit/infospace/test_history.py gains a round-trip test that
pins the type_distribution / int-preservation invariants.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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