feat: @vf.intercept — rewrite model turns at runtime in the interception server

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What

Tasksets can now rewrite a model turn before the harness sees it — block a destructive tool call, censor a reward hack — via @vf.intercept methods, discovered like @vf.stop and run by the interception server over every completed turn:

@vf.intercept
async def block_destructive(self, response: vf.Response, trace: vf.Trace) -> vf.AssistantMessage | None:
    if not any("rm -rf" in c.arguments for c in response.message.tool_calls or []):
        return None                                   # pass through, byte-exact
    trace.info.setdefault("intercepted", []).append(response.message.model_dump())
    return vf.AssistantMessage(content="That command is blocked by policy.")

An interceptor returns:

• None — pass through, the relay stays byte-exact;
• vf.AssistantMessage — replaces the model's message; the framework serializes it back to the request's wire format (Dialect.serialize_response);
• a raw wire dict — replaces the response body wholesale, re-parsed through the dialect's existing validate_response/parse_response; the escape hatch for rewrites that must control native blocks (start from response.raw).

First non-None (by priority, then name) wins. The rewrite is what the harness receives and what the trace commits — the next turn's replayed prompt must match the graph — so a rewritten turn drops its sampled tokens, and the original survives only where the interceptor stashes it (e.g. trace.info, for @metric/@reward/@stop to score).

How

• All three dialects (chat / responses / anthropic) implement two new required Dialect hooks: serialize_response (vf Response → wire body) and serialize_stream (wire body → one synthesized SSE stream). serialize_completion moves from clients/train.py to dialects/chat.py (it's chat-wire serialization; the renderer imports it back).
• Streaming: a session with interceptors buffers the stream (_stream_buffered) until they've ruled, then relays the original events verbatim (pass-through) or emits the rewrite as synthesized SSE. Stream parsers now set Response.raw, so interceptors see the assembled wire body on streamed turns too.
• Anthropic provider_state widening: keeps every non-folded block (server_tool_use, web_search_tool_result, …), not just thinking — provider-executed (server-side) tool use is now visible on the trace typed. Request- and response-side parses widen together since the graph hashes provider_state. (Server-side tools execute within one provider call, so an interceptor can't prevent the execution — but it can rewrite what enters the ongoing conversation, and detect/penalize/stop.)
• Docs: verifiers/v1/GUIDE.md gains an "Intercepting model turns" section + decorator-table row.

Example env

environments/shell_guard_v1 — a shell tool in a scratch workspace, a task that tempts the model into rm -rf, an @vf.intercept that rewrites the turn into a refusal, and scoring that proves the interception (the tool flags state.destructive_ran before executing, so workspace_intact scores the guard, not model restraint). Registered in the root examples group like the sibling _v1 envs.

Validation

• tests/v1/test_interception.py (15 tests): rewrite / pass-through / raw-dict paths per dialect against a real InterceptionServer over HTTP; the buffered streaming path both ways; serialize_response/serialize_stream round-trips through each dialect's own parsers; priority ordering; anthropic server-tool blocks in provider_state.
• Full non-e2e suite: 887 passed. ruff + pre-commit clean.
• Live e2e: uv run eval --taskset.id shell-guard-v1 (deepseek-v4-flash, default harness) — the model ran cat data.txt (executed), attempted rm -rf . (intercepted, rewritten, never executed), finished with workspace_intact: 1.0, intercepted_turns: 1.0, original tool call preserved in trace.info["intercepted"].

Notes for review

• uv.lock diff is one added package (shell-guard-v1), no version bumps; the churn is array re-wrapping.
• A rewritten turn sets tokens=None: eval-first semantics. Whether an RL rewrite should instead keep the policy's sampled tokens (train on what it emitted, penalize via rewards) is left open until interception is used in training.
• Live e2e covered the chat dialect; responses/anthropic are covered by the unit tests against the real server, not yet by a live codex/claude-code harness run.

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Note

Medium Risk
Touches the hot path of every model turn when interceptors are enabled (including full stream buffering), and graph/hash consistency depends on correct dialect round-trips.

Overview
Adds @vf.intercept so tasksets can rewrite each completed model turn in the interception server before the harness (and trace) see it—None passes through, otherwise return a mutated Response, an AssistantMessage, or a raw wire dict; first match by priority wins, and the committed turn must round-trip through dialect serialization for replayed history.

The server runs _intercept on every turn and _stream_buffered when interceptors are registered (full stream buffer, then pass-through or synthesized SSE). All three dialects gain serialize_response / serialize_stream; stream parsers set Response.raw for streamed turns. Anthropic parsing widens provider_state to non-folded blocks (e.g. server-tool / web search).

Ships shell_guard_v1 (block rm -rf shell calls) and intercept_web_search_v1 (German rewrite of Codex web-search responses), docs in GUIDE.md, shell-guard-v1 in the examples group, and test_intercept.py for dialect rewrite round-trips.

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Note

Add @vf.intercept decorator to rewrite model turns at runtime in the interception server

• Introduces a @vf.intercept decorator that tasksets use to register hooks that can mutate or replace a completed model turn before it is returned to the harness and committed to the trace.
• The interception server gains _intercept and _stream_buffered methods; interceptors receive a typed Response and can return a new Response, AssistantMessage, or raw wire dict — streamed turns are buffered and re-emitted as valid SSE.
• All three dialects (chat, Responses, Anthropic) implement serialize_response and serialize_stream so intercepted turns can be round-tripped back to wire format in the correct API shape.
• Adds two example environments: shell_guard_v1 intercepts destructive rm -rf tool calls and replaces them with refusals; intercept_web_search_v1 rewrites Codex CLI search turns into German before the harness sees them.
• Risk: streamed turns are fully buffered before delivery when an interceptor is active, increasing latency and memory use for long completions.

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3 blocking correctness issues found. This PR introduces a new runtime interception feature with significant behavioral implications. Multiple unresolved HIGH severity comments identify correctness issues: blocked tool calls may still execute due to incomplete provider_state handling, and truncation status can be incorrectly overwritten. Human review is needed to address these issues before merging.

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Avoid committing buffered stream turns before a client is attached

When a streamed request has interceptors, _stream_buffered buffers the whole upstream response without sending headers, so a harness can time out or disconnect before this point. This commits the model turn before resp.prepare() or any write and the following contextlib.suppress(ConnectionResetError) hides that disconnect, leaving the trace ahead of what the harness actually received; a retry or final scoring can then operate on a phantom turn. Prepare the response (or otherwise detect a closed client) before committing the buffered turn.

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🟡 Medium intercept_web_search_v1/taskset.py:73

When rewrite.citation_url_de is not present in rewrite.text_de, find() returns -1 and max(start, 0) forces the annotation span to [0, len(url)), so the citation metadata points at the beginning of the text instead of the actual link. This silently corrupts the annotation whenever the judge model returns a citation_url_de that does not appear in text_de. Consider guarding against start == -1 — for example, skipping the annotation or raising an error when the URL is not found in the text.

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In file @environments/intercept_web_search_v1/intercept_web_search_v1/taskset.py around line 73:

When `rewrite.citation_url_de` is not present in `rewrite.text_de`, `find()` returns `-1` and `max(start, 0)` forces the annotation span to `[0, len(url))`, so the citation metadata points at the beginning of the text instead of the actual link. This silently corrupts the annotation whenever the judge model returns a `citation_url_de` that does not appear in `text_de`. Consider guarding against `start == -1` — for example, skipping the annotation or raising an error when the URL is not found in the text.

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🟠 High dialects/responses.py:344

serialize_response never removes function_call items from the copied provider_state. It records existing call IDs in seen_calls but only uses that set to skip appending duplicates — the original function_call items remain in output. So when an interceptor rewrites a tool-call turn into plain text (reusing provider_state to preserve reasoning/web-search items), the original function_call is still sent to the harness and the blocked tool call can still execute. Consider removing function_call items from output when message.tool_calls no longer includes them, or rebuilding the call items from message.tool_calls instead of preserving the originals.

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In file @verifiers/v1/dialects/responses.py around line 344:

`serialize_response` never removes `function_call` items from the copied `provider_state`. It records existing call IDs in `seen_calls` but only uses that set to skip appending duplicates — the original `function_call` items remain in `output`. So when an interceptor rewrites a tool-call turn into plain text (reusing `provider_state` to preserve reasoning/web-search items), the original `function_call` is still sent to the harness and the blocked tool call can still execute. Consider removing `function_call` items from `output` when `message.tool_calls` no longer includes them, or rebuilding the call items from `message.tool_calls` instead of preserving the originals.

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🟠 High interception/server.py:267

When an @intercept returns an AssistantMessage, _intercept overwrites finish_reason to "tool_calls" or "stop" based only on whether the rewrite has tool calls. If the original turn was truncated (finish_reason="length") and the interceptor rewrites it to plain text, the committed turn reports "stop" instead of "length", so Trace.is_truncated and downstream metrics become wrong. Consider preserving the original finish_reason when it signals truncation (e.g. "length") rather than always deriving it from the rewritten message's tool calls.

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ResponsesDialect.serialize_response() always emits "status": "completed" regardless of response.finish_reason. When an interceptor returns a vf.Response whose finish_reason is "length", the rewritten body is serialized as a completed response and parse_response() will turn it back into finish_reason="stop". That silently drops truncation/incomplete status from intercepted Responses turns, so the harness and committed trace see the wrong completion state.

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In file @verifiers/v1/interception/server.py around line 267:

When an `@intercept` returns an `AssistantMessage`, `_intercept` overwrites `finish_reason` to `"tool_calls"` or `"stop"` based only on whether the rewrite has tool calls. If the original turn was truncated (`finish_reason="length"`) and the interceptor rewrites it to plain text, the committed turn reports `"stop"` instead of `"length"`, so `Trace.is_truncated` and downstream metrics become wrong. Consider preserving the original `finish_reason` when it signals truncation (e.g. `"length"`) rather than always deriving it from the rewritten message's tool calls.

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- verifiers/v1/dialects/responses.py:390 -- `ResponsesDialect.serialize_response()` always emits `"status": "completed"` regardless of `response.finish_reason`. When an interceptor returns a `vf.Response` whose `finish_reason` is `"length"`, the rewritten body is serialized as a completed response and `parse_response()` will turn it back into `finish_reason="stop"`. That silently drops truncation/incomplete status from intercepted Responses turns, so the harness and committed trace see the wrong completion state.

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Drop stale Responses tool calls when serializing rewrites

When a Responses @vf.intercept returns the documented “mutated vf.Response” path and clears or changes response.message.tool_calls, the original function_call items copied from provider_state are only marked as seen here and remain in output; matching IDs then suppress the sanitized calls emitted below. In that scenario the raw body sent back to Codex/Responses still contains the old tool call, so a policy rewrite of a dangerous command can still execute. Filter or rebuild function_call items from message.tool_calls instead of preserving the provider-state copies unchanged.

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