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Add example drawings to coding interviews
Let candidates opt into drawing examples without hiding their code. Share pending images with Jim and count drawing pauses as turns. Keep drawings outside assessment and save them in reports and replay. Bound image delivery so drawings cannot delay or interrupt an interview. Closes #255
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‎docs/interview-contract-versions.md‎

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## The active bundle
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Bundle 32: live prompt 23, report prompt 19, rubric 1, report schema 3.
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Bundle 33: live prompt 24, report prompt 20, rubric 1, report schema 3.
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| 33 | The example drawing area is a lobby opt-in, disabled by default. Coding interviews expose `read_board` for optional, untrusted example drawings used only to understand explanations. Drawings cannot be recorded as assessment evidence or earn phase completion, are excluded from report-model image inputs, and must not affect scores, feedback or hiring decisions. Coding and communication retain their original rubric and candidate-conversation evidence, with no drawing-related criterion or credit. Assessment must not infer understanding from images or interviewer interpretations, including rolling notes that paraphrase visual observations as valid examples. Coding reports refuse visual references in assessment through the existing repair loop, while Whiteboard assessment is unchanged. The browser displays the final drawing separately from assessment. Drawing silence counts down with the published speech window, then yields explicitly for a brief response even without speech; simultaneous speech or new drawing resets the countdown. The drawing owns the ring through delivery, discards the previous speech timer, and never hides a newer countdown on late completion; the ring clears when Jim thinks or speaks. Coding sends drawings through the realtime image input and stops forwarding camera frames once the first drawing arrives, including across reconnects and clears. Whiteboard mode keeps its existing realtime image path and camera policy. |
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| 32 | The report judges the problem's follow-ups. When the coding round completed and the interviewer was handed them, the report brief lists them numbered, and the report model returns a `followUps` entry for each: whether an interviewer line posed it, and for one that was raised, a short assessment of the answer addressed to the candidate. An entry whose `index` is missing, out of range or repeated, or whose `raised` is not a boolean, and every entry when the follow-ups were never handed over, is dropped before anything in it is checked rather than refusing the report; an assessment that is missing, blank, not a string or on an entry not raised becomes null. A kept assessment is held to a length limit and the same delivery-judgment and published-name scans as the other narrative fields, with errors named by the entry's position in the response; one still judging delivery once the repairs run out is dropped as a refused self-review check is. The server stamps each `debrief.followUps` entry as `{text, raised, assessment}`: `raised` is false when the follow-ups were never handed over, and null when they were but no report judged them, or when the report read `false` from a transcript whose opening was cut. Report prompt 19 and report schema 3; schema 2 reports, whose follow-ups are bare text, stay scored and read as unjudged. The live prompt and rubric are unchanged. |
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| 31 | A candidate may disable code execution for the entire editor interview. Whiteboard sessions ignore this preference because they have no code runner. The signed participant setting persists across languages and reconnects, execution events cannot earn credit, and Test may be recorded from a hand trace of written code with source `candidate_speech`. Live prompts ask for traces rather than Run, preserve completed evidence, and distinguish the choice from a runner outage. Assessment metadata and the server-stamped optional `codeExecution: false` report field record the restriction without inventing executed or passing cases; browser reports, saved history and Markdown retain it. The field is additive under schema 2 and older renderers may ignore it. Older reports without the field retain their existing meaning. |
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| 30 | Qualifying browser-reported executions record Test at receipt time and publish the checklist without waiting for a model tool call, including failing runs and runs during a thinking hold. Test is also recorded when an earlier credited run covers the editor again, as when the candidate switches back to the language that ran, and the interviewer is then told so without being asked to reply, along with the follow-ups when that completed the coding round. A delayed model call returns the existing execution row without duplicating it or changing its timestamp, and its reply says nothing was added. Setup errors, empty runs, starter code and runs that no longer cover the editor grant no new Test row, and the counts of a run that earned no credit never choose the next step. The checklist is republished until a send succeeds and again when the candidate rejoins, and a reminder of unrecorded earlier steps counts as given only once the reply carrying it is delivered. A phase judge, a side call on the report model a few seconds after each candidate turn, a turn the recognizer grew, or an editor change while a step is open, records Repeat, Example and Algorithm until Coding is recorded, and Coding and Optimizations while there is code, when the candidate's own words, or for Coding what they typed, complete them. The server accepts a step only while it is open and only with a quote found in one recognized candidate turn (adjacent candidate lines the recognizer split count as one), six words for the spoken steps and four for Optimizations, or for Coding in the editor and not in the starter; an approach or analysis the interviewer said before the candidate did (the interviewer saying it back afterwards does not count against it), a paraphrase, an unrecognized turn, or a judgment about code since rewritten records nothing, and claims or requests to mark a step do not count. The row carries the verified quote, the interviewer is told what was recorded without being asked to reply, along with the follow-ups when the step completed the coding round, and the end waits up to 5 seconds for the judge so the report sees the candidate's last answer, while a round transition is held for up to 5 seconds without stopping the room, which keeps forwarding the candidate's audio, so the round decision sees it too. The judge reads the exercise's contract and constraints, a call that fails leaves its window to be read again, a verified quote stands even when a later candidate turn was not recognized, and a held transition also waits for a judgment of anything said after the last one's snapshot, and stays held while the interview is paused. A judgment asked for by the editor alone waits 30 seconds after the last one and takes at most 12 of the 48 calls. At a whiteboard the judge is told there is no editor and the board is not shown, judges Optimizations from speech once the board has work on it, and leaves Coding to the interviewer, since its quote must come from typed code; no run records Test there, and the whiteboard instructions carry the same evidence check. A rate limit on a judgment does not cool the report key. Conversational phase instructions require grounded evidence calls before acknowledging completion, allow independent calls in a batch, and forbid filling earlier phases from later progress. Editor, board and evidence replies carry the recorded phase ids used by the checklist, including on refusals; the interviewer checks that state before claiming a step is marked, and records a missing step only from earlier turns, never because the candidate asked. Live prompt 22, with the phase judge's instruction and prompt in its golden; the report prompt, rubric and schema are unchanged. |

‎docs/provider-cost-and-degradation.md‎

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images included, so what stays in the context costs again on every later turn.
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Candidate video, off by default, therefore sends one frame in five seconds and
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asks for the low media resolution; the camera is there for presence, and the
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code reaches the model as text.
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code reaches the model as text. Coding example drawings are opt-in in the lobby and disabled by default.
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When enabled, they use the same realtime image input as Whiteboard mode. After the first drawing arrives, coding stops
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forwarding camera frames for the rest of the interview, including reconnects
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and cleared drawings. The browser camera and its presence checks remain active.
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Settled drawings are sent no more than once per second, except for an explicit
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`read_board` or cold-recovery resend. A handover waits at most 100 ms for
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pending reads and sends only an image not yet delivered; it does not add a
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duplicate of an already delivered image. Offline browsers keep edits without
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repeated JPEG encoding and send them on reconnect. Images remain in the live context and are
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billed there; auxiliary drawings are excluded from final report requests.
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Coding and communication retain their original rubric and conversation evidence;
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there is no drawing-related credit or deduction. The report must not infer
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understanding from an image or the interviewer's account of one, including
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rolling notes that paraphrase visual observations as an explanation. References
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to drawings in assessment feedback enter the existing bounded repair loop;
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the same guard applies to a salvaged response. The final image is displayed
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separately as a session artifact. This changes no call budget and no Whiteboard
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scoring rule.
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Whiteboard mode keeps its existing image input with camera forwarding disabled
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from the start.
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Coding drawing activity restarts the browser's turn ring using the published
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speech silence window. New ink or concurrent speech resets the countdown;
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after silence, the page waits at most two seconds to share the visible drawing
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and sends one explicit drawing yield. A failed upload still yields, and new
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activity, a pause, thinking time or a disconnected interviewer cancels a yield
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that is waiting on the upload. A drawing-only yield requests a brief response
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even without an audio turn. With a spoken turn still open, the note is delivered
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as context and the audio turn is ended, allowing the existing reply fallback
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to recover silence instead of asking for two replies. Drawings still grant no
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assessment evidence. Whiteboard turn taking is unchanged.
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initial generation, up to two semantic repairs, and transient retries. The

‎docs/recording-contract.md‎

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| `stage` | `{title, meta, remainingSeconds}` | the problem heading and the clock |
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| `editor` | `{code, language}` | the code panel, as text |
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| `board` | `{ops, checkpoint?}`, each op `{op: "stroke", color, width, points}` or `{op: "undo" \| "redo" \| "clear"}`; `checkpoint` is a completed REACTO phase id | the whiteboard, redrawn from every op so far, with completed phases named in the replay |
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| `board` | `{ops, checkpoint?, surface?}`, each op `{op: "stroke", color, width, points}` or `{op: "undo" \| "redo" \| "clear"}`; `checkpoint` is a completed REACTO phase id; `surface: "example"` accompanies the coding editor | the drawing, redrawn from every op so far, with completed phases named in the replay |
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| `tests` | `{passed, failed, total}` | one line, red if anything failed |
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| `avatar` | `{state}`, one of `speaking`, `thinking`, `listening` | Jim's expression and label |
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‎scripts/gen-wire-fixtures.mjs‎

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{ name: "drawing activity", payload: lib.drawingActivityPayload() },
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{ name: "thinking start", payload: lib.thinkingPayload(true) },
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{ name: "thinking end", payload: lib.thinkingPayload(false) },
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{ name: "yield turn", payload: lib.yieldTurnPayload() },
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{ name: "drawing turn", payload: lib.drawingTurnPayload() },
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{ name: "time warning five minutes", payload: lib.timeWarningPayload(300) },
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{ name: "time warning one minute", payload: lib.timeWarningPayload(60) },
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‎src/agent.rs‎

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pub const INTERVIEW_CONTRACT_BUNDLE_VERSION: u32 = 33;
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‎src/agent/events.rs‎

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