fix(rag): treat required and needed as question wording in relevance terms by BigSimmo · Pull Request #3591 · BigSimmo/PsychSift

BigSimmo · 2026-10-16T17:25:34Z

Summary

Before: "What assessment documentation is required?" lists Assessment Documentation (AKG) 4th, behind Admissions, Radiotherapy and Pressure Injury pages. The paid diagnostic run 38912586460 (PR eval: record why each answer source ranks where it does, opt-in on canary dispatch #3579 recording) shows AKG is ranked 1st to 3rd by retrieval selection and has the highest answer-stage score, so the reorder happens at context selection, which sorts by the per-source relevance verdict first. required was a core evidence term. AKG never says "required", so it scored only partial. The Admissions page says "required", so it scored direct and jumped ahead.
After: requirement wording is removed from the question text before tokenising, the same way should is already ignored. Core terms for the question become assessment, documentation, so AKG is direct and keeps its retrieval-led place. Removed words: need, needed, require, required, requires, and needs in "needs to". Kept as subject terms: the noun needs ("support needs"), requirement(s), need after a determiner or modifier ("the clinical need for", "an ongoing need for"), and all requirement words when the question contrasts required with optional.
How: one regex step in queryCoreTerms in src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts, plus tests in tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts. A Qodo bot commit (03259b7) proposed a noun allowlist regex for the same review point. It was superseded by the whole-word approach, and its carers test is kept.

Areas touched: Answer engine
RAG impact: behaviour change — canary pair 38992332213 -> 38996641073

Canary pair

Before: run 38992332213 on main 27ef741. After: run 38996641073 on main 99507eb (this PR merged).
Golden retrieval is identical: document recall@5 1 to 1, content recall@5 1 to 1, mrr@10 0.9106 to 0.9106, failed cases 0 to 0. Per-case reciprocal rank shows zero regressions and zero changes across all cases.
Answer quality: assessment-documentation went from failed to passed. The two remaining failures, clozapine-missed-dose-table and admission-discharge-coverage-paraphrase, were failing before this PR too.
The after run is red on one latency gate: unsupported-route p95 9452 ms against a 4000 ms budget. It comes from one case, "What is the best coffee machine for my kitchen?", which spent 9450 ms in retrieval. That question has no requirement wording, so this change cannot alter it. The term step also runs after retrieval. The repo already treats this case as a known slow refusal (tests/eval-quality-retry.test.ts). This is a timing blip, not a behaviour regression, so no revert.

Verification

Checks run:
- npx vitest run tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts: the new tests failed before the change (expected 'partial' to be 'direct'), and now Tests 11 passed (11).
- Offline probe against the run 38912586460 dump previews: before the change, AKG was partial and Admissions direct.
- npm run typecheck: recorded a pass for "typecheck:internal"
- npm run test:focused for the changed files: Tests 2480 passed (2480)
- npm run test on the first commit: Tests 31561 passed | 9 skipped (31570)

Risk and rollout

Risk: medium. Relevance verdicts can only become more generous for questions that use these verbs. That moves ordering within the existing relevance bands and the match chips. The live canary pair above measured no retrieval change and one answer fixed.
Rollback: revert the squash commit.
Provider or production effects: none from the code. The owner approved the paid before and after canary pair for this fix.

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…terms The word required in "What assessment documentation is required?" was a core evidence term, so the Assessment Documentation guideline, which never says required, scored only a partial match while unrelated pages that say required scored direct and were listed ahead of it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VkKjYakMrMXofU8foQCgbq

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Query-term extraction now filters generic requirement wording and retains “need” when it names a requested subject. The aggregate evidence verdict is “nearby” when query terms match or the aggregate score is at least 0.5. Tests cover requirement wording and evidence matching.

Changes: Evidence relevance matching

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Query terms and evidence verdicts `src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts`, `tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts`	Requirement verbs are generic query terms. Query-term extraction retains “need” when it names a requested subject. The aggregate verdict is “nearby” when query terms match or the aggregate score is at least 0.5. Tests cover term extraction and evidence verdicts.

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Some questions containing only requirement wording may receive misleading evidence matches. Fix the fallback filter before merging, or accept this bounded relevance risk.

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Prevent requirement wording from distorting RAG source relevance

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 🕐 10-20 Minutes

AI Description

• Treat requirement verbs as question wording so topical evidence is not penalized for omitting
 them.
• Preserve “requirement” as a subject term and test source-level relevance verdicts.

Diagram

graph TD
  A["User question"] --> B["Core term filter"] --> C["Source relevance"] --> D["Context selection"]

High-Level Assessment

Keep the focused generic-term change. It addresses the source-verdict mismatch without changing retrieval or context-selection policy; changing those downstream stages would be broader than this fix requires.

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evidence-relevance.tsExclude requirement verbs from core query terms +7/-0

Exclude requirement verbs from core query terms

• Adds “need,” “needed,” “require,” and “required” to generic query terms so their presence does not determine source coverage. Leaves “requirement” available as a subject term.

src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts

Tests (1) +28 / -0

evidence-relevance.test.tsCover requirement-term extraction and source verdicts +28/-0

Cover requirement-term extraction and source verdicts

• Tests that requirement verbs are excluded while “requirement” remains a core term. A source-level regression test confirms the on-topic guideline receives a direct verdict even without the word “required.”

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Resolved findings

1. ~~Carers' needs lose evidence checks~~ ✓ Resolved

Description

queryCoreTerms filters the noun needs as generic because normalizeTerm singularizes it to
need, losing the subject of questions about clinical or support needs. When other question words
are also generic, a passage that mentions carers but says nothing about their needs can satisfy the
remaining carer term and receive a direct rather than partial verdict, affecting relevance
ordering and source-backed evidence.

Code

src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[46]
+  "need",

Relevance

●●● Strong
Accepted semantic-precision findings preserve clinical subjects and narrow overly broad relevance
routing.
PR-#3446
PR-#3511
PR-#3572

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The tokenizer singularizes plurals before queryCoreTerms filters candidates against
genericQueryTerms, which now includes need. In “What support needs do carers have?”, the other
generic words are removed too, leaving carer as the sole core term; a strong passage mentioning
carers can therefore meet the direct-verdict coverage and content thresholds, whereas a passage
missing need previously covered only one of two core terms. “Support needs” is also used as a
substantive clinical concept, making this loss relevant to the required conservative relevance
behavior.
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[43-47]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[110-150]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[391-426]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[42-66]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[105-112]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[138-147]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[409-445]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[550-568]
src/lib/australian-source-priority.ts[60-68]
src/data/therapies-source.json[1418-1424]
Skill: clinical
Skill: rag

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Filtering `need` after singularization also drops substantive noun uses of `needs`, allowing passages that mention only the population to appear to answer questions about clinical or support needs.

## Fix Focus Areas
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[43-47]
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[125-150]
- tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts[42-69]

## Recommended Fix
Distinguish question-framing verb uses of `need` from substantive noun uses such as `support needs` before applying the generic-term filter. Keep framing uses out of core terms while retaining noun uses, and add tests for both forms and their source-relevance verdicts, including a passage about carers without evidence about their needs that must not receive a direct-match verdict.

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2. ~~Optional tests outrank required tests~~ ✗ Dismissed

Description

queryCoreTerms removes required and needed even when they identify one side of a comparison
with optional care. For a query such as “Required versus optional clozapine monitoring?”, an
optional-only passage retains a matching optional term while a required-only passage loses its
corresponding term, skewing their relevance verdicts and ordering.

Code

src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[118]

+  /\b(?<!\b(?:a|an|the|this|that|any|no|clinical|unmet|support|care|their|his|her|its|our|your)\s+)need\b|\b(?:needed|require|required|requires)\b|\bneeds(?=\s+to\b)/gi;

Relevance

●●● Strong
Specific relevance-ranking regression; recent RAG precedents accept fixes preserving comparison
semantics and request-term coverage.
PR-#3446
PR-#2811

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The new replacement removes required before both token paths, so only optional can contribute
its side of the comparison to matched-term coverage. Coverage controls direct versus partial
verdicts and contributes to each source's score.
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[117-118]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[140-153]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[398-438]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[551-570]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[595-598]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Removing requirement words unconditionally loses the required side of required-versus-optional comparisons and favors optional-only sources.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[117-118]
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[140-147]
- tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts[42-57]
## Recommended Fix
Keep requirement-word removal for ordinary question framing, but retain `required` or `needed` when the query explicitly contrasts it with `optional`. Add a relevance test with separate required-only and optional-only passages to verify that neither side gains an artificial coverage advantage.

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3. ~~Clinical-need questions get false matches~~ ✗ Dismissed

Description

requirementVerbs removes the singular noun need in questions such as “What is the clinical need
for lithium?”, leaving only lithium as a core term. A high-ranked passage that mentions lithium
without addressing its clinical need can then receive a direct relevance verdict, affecting source
ordering and evidence labels.

Code

src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[116]
+const requirementVerbs = /\b(?:need|needed|require|required|requires)\b/gi;

Relevance

●●● Strong
Recent RAG precedents accept regressions preventing false matches, and this directly identifies an
uncovered clinical-need query failure.
PR-#3446
PR-#2811

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The new regex matches every standalone need before either token list is built. Source relevance
computes coverage solely from those remaining terms, and its direct threshold can be met by one
content term when the source has sufficient rank or strength; the test helper supplies both a high
score and strong source strength.
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[112-149]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[402-425]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[549-590]
tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts[11-27]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The requirement-word replacement removes `need` even when it is a noun naming the question's subject, allowing topic-only passages to score as direct evidence.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[112-142]
- tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts[42-74]
## Recommended Fix
Remove verbal uses of `need` without removing noun uses such as “the clinical need for lithium.” Add a relevance test showing that a lithium-only passage does not directly answer that question.

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Resolved findings

1. ~~Carers' needs lose evidence checks~~ ✓ Resolved

Description

queryCoreTerms filters the noun needs as generic because normalizeTerm singularizes it to
need, losing the subject of questions about clinical or support needs. When other question words
are also generic, a passage that mentions carers but says nothing about their needs can satisfy the
remaining carer term and receive a direct rather than partial verdict, affecting relevance
ordering and source-backed evidence.

Code

src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[46]
+  "need",

Relevance

●●● Strong
Accepted semantic-precision findings preserve clinical subjects and narrow overly broad relevance
routing.
PR-#3446
PR-#3511
PR-#3572

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The tokenizer singularizes plurals before queryCoreTerms filters candidates against
genericQueryTerms, which now includes need. In “What support needs do carers have?”, the other
generic words are removed too, leaving carer as the sole core term; a strong passage mentioning
carers can therefore meet the direct-verdict coverage and content thresholds, whereas a passage
missing need previously covered only one of two core terms. “Support needs” is also used as a
substantive clinical concept, making this loss relevant to the required conservative relevance
behavior.
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[43-47]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[110-150]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[391-426]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[42-66]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[105-112]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[138-147]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[409-445]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[550-568]
src/lib/australian-source-priority.ts[60-68]
src/data/therapies-source.json[1418-1424]
Skill: clinical
Skill: rag

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Filtering `need` after singularization also drops substantive noun uses of `needs`, allowing passages that mention only the population to appear to answer questions about clinical or support needs.

## Fix Focus Areas
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[43-47]
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[125-150]
- tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts[42-69]

## Recommended Fix
Distinguish question-framing verb uses of `need` from substantive noun uses such as `support needs` before applying the generic-term filter. Keep framing uses out of core terms while retaining noun uses, and add tests for both forms and their source-relevance verdicts, including a passage about carers without evidence about their needs that must not receive a direct-match verdict.

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No findings for this group

Resolved findings

1. ~~Clinical-need questions get false matches~~ ✗ Dismissed

Description

requirementVerbs removes the singular noun need in questions such as “What is the clinical need
for lithium?”, leaving only lithium as a core term. A high-ranked passage that mentions lithium
without addressing its clinical need can then receive a direct relevance verdict, affecting source
ordering and evidence labels.

Code

src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[116]
+const requirementVerbs = /\b(?:need|needed|require|required|requires)\b/gi;

Relevance

●●● Strong
Recent RAG precedents accept regressions preventing false matches, and this directly identifies an
uncovered clinical-need query failure.
PR-#3446
PR-#2811

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The new regex matches every standalone need before either token list is built. Source relevance
computes coverage solely from those remaining terms, and its direct threshold can be met by one
content term when the source has sufficient rank or strength; the test helper supplies both a high
score and strong source strength.
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[112-149]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[402-425]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[549-590]
tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts[11-27]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The requirement-word replacement removes `need` even when it is a noun naming the question's subject, allowing topic-only passages to score as direct evidence.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[112-142]
- tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts[42-74]
## Recommended Fix
Remove verbal uses of `need` without removing noun uses such as “the clinical need for lithium.” Add a relevance test showing that a lithium-only passage does not directly answer that question.

ⓘ Copy this prompt and use it to remediate the issue with your preferred AI generation tools

Results up to commit 83a4c93 ⚖️ Balanced

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Resolved findings

1. ~~Optional tests outrank required tests~~ ✗ Dismissed

Description

queryCoreTerms removes required and needed even when they identify one side of a comparison
with optional care. For a query such as “Required versus optional clozapine monitoring?”, an
optional-only passage retains a matching optional term while a required-only passage loses its
corresponding term, skewing their relevance verdicts and ordering.

Code

src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[118]

+  /\b(?<!\b(?:a|an|the|this|that|any|no|clinical|unmet|support|care|their|his|her|its|our|your)\s+)need\b|\b(?:needed|require|required|requires)\b|\bneeds(?=\s+to\b)/gi;

Relevance

●●● Strong
Specific relevance-ranking regression; recent RAG precedents accept fixes preserving comparison
semantics and request-term coverage.
PR-#3446
PR-#2811

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The new replacement removes required before both token paths, so only optional can contribute
its side of the comparison to matched-term coverage. Coverage controls direct versus partial
verdicts and contributes to each source's score.
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[117-118]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[140-153]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[398-438]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[551-570]
src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[595-598]

Agent prompt

The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Removing requirement words unconditionally loses the required side of required-versus-optional comparisons and favors optional-only sources.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[117-118]
- src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts[140-147]
- tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts[42-57]
## Recommended Fix
Keep requirement-word removal for ordinary question framing, but retain `required` or `needed` when the query explicitly contrasts it with `optional`. Add a relevance test with separate required-only and optional-only passages to verify that neither side gains an artificial coverage advantage.

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codeant-ai · 2026-10-17T01:48:05Z

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The PR appears safe to merge; query normalization removes requirement verbs while preserving “needs” and “requirements” as subject terms.
Tests cover the distinction and verify that passages missing the requested needs are not treated as direct evidence.

Assessed commit: 54548a60a7cb

Requirement verbs are now removed by whole word before plural stripping, so "support needs" still requires a passage to cover needs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VkKjYakMrMXofU8foQCgbq

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"needs to" is the requirement verb, so it no longer becomes a core term. "need" after a determiner or modifier ("the clinical need for lithium") names the subject, so it stays a term a passage must cover. RAG impact: behaviour change, covered by the PR 3591 canary pair. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VkKjYakMrMXofU8foQCgbq

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…sus-optional questions "need" followed by "for" with an article two words back is a noun, so it stays a term. A question that contrasts required with optional keeps the requirement words, since they name one side of the comparison. RAG impact: behaviour change, covered by the PR 3591 canary pair. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VkKjYakMrMXofU8foQCgbq

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🟡 Medium risk · Removing requirement wording from relevance terms changes evidence ranking; unrelated passages could gain prominence and influence answer context selection.

Stops requirement verbs (need, needed, require, required, requires) from counting as core relevance terms in queryCoreTerms, so questions like "What assessment documentation is required?" no longer over-rank pages that merely say "required". Noun uses such as "an ongoing need for" keep need, and the "needs to" verb-form issue and the generic "needs" normalization issue were resolved. No open issues found; the remaining noun-after-unlisted-adjective case is closed without a fix in this PR.

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✅ Edge Case: Generic "need" also drops the plural noun "needs" via normalizeTerm

📄 src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts:46-47 📄 src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts:115 📄 src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts:146 📄 src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts:162
normalizeTerm removes a trailing s, so the noun "needs" turns into need. With this change it then gets filtered as a generic term at line 146. The comment says "requirement" is kept because it names a subject, but noun phrases like "support needs", "care needs" or "needs assessment" also name a subject, and the same file treats needs as a support noun at line 162. For a query like "What are the support needs after discharge?", the core terms drop need, so any passage that only mentions support or discharge gets a direct verdict. One fix is to filter the requirement verbs on the raw token before normalisation: drop need, needed, require and required, but keep needs. You could also add a test that queryCoreTerms("What support needs apply?") still contains need.

✅ Edge Case: Verb "needs to" still becomes a required core term

📄 src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts:116 📄 src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts:142
requirementVerbs strips need, needed, require, required and requires, but not needs. So when needs is used as a verb, it survives and normalizeTerm turns it into the core term need. Common wording like "What assessment documentation needs to be completed?" or "Which patients needs to be reviewed?" ends up with need as a core term. A guideline that never says "need" then scores partial, while any passage that happens to say "need" scores direct. That is the same misordering this PR fixes for "required". The previous commit dropped need here because genericQueryTerms contained it and needs to did not match the noun allowlist. This commit therefore brings the misordering back for that phrasing. The fix is to also strip needs when it is followed by to, since the verb form is followed by an infinitive and the noun form ("support needs in autism", "carers' needs") is not.

Closed: Edge Case: Noun "need" after an unlisted adjective is still removed

📄 src/lib/evidence-relevance.ts:117-118 📄 tests/evidence-relevance.test.ts:55-66
The lookbehind only checks the one word right before need. So need is kept in "the clinical need for lithium", but it is still removed when another adjective sits between the article and the noun. Examples: "Is there an ongoing need for clozapine?", "the continuing need for antipsychotic treatment", "the medical need for admission". In each case need drops out of the core terms, so a passage that only mentions the drug can be scored direct. That is the exact failure the new test does not treat a lithium-only passage as direct evidence for the clinical need guards against, but only for the listed words. A fix is to also keep need when it is followed by for and an article comes one word before it, while still removing the verb in "Does the patient need ...".

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