SciDEX — Task: [Agora] Run debates for 10 analyses without debate

47 analyses do not have debate sessions. Debate coverage is the quality mechanism that turns analyses into tested claims. Verification: - 10 analyses gain debate_sessions rows linked by analysis_id - Each debate has transcript_json or a substantive consensus/dissent summary - Remaining analyses without debates is <= 37 Start by reading this task's spec and checking for duplicate recent work.

Spec File

Goal

Increase Agora coverage by adding substantive debate sessions for analyses that currently have none. Debate coverage is a core quality mechanism: claims should be challenged, contextualized, and synthesized before they feed the Exchange or Atlas.

Acceptance Criteria

☑ The selected analyses have new debate_sessions rows linked by analysis_id

☑ Each debate has transcript_json or a substantive consensus/dissent summary

☑ The before/after count of analyses without debate sessions is recorded

☑ No placeholder debate rows are inserted

Approach

Query completed analyses without linked debate_sessions, prioritizing active gaps and recent analyses.

Run or reconstruct the standard Agora debate workflow for a bounded batch.

Persist only substantive debates with transcript or summary content.

Verify linked rows and record the remaining gap count.

Dependencies

quest-engine-ci - Generates this task when queue depth is low and debate coverage gaps exist.

Dependents

Exchange and Atlas ranking tasks depend on debated, quality-tested claims.

Work Log

2026-04-21 21:06 UTC — Slot 54

Started task d6cc6f1b-2f55-4309-a924-93f46a5fcf32.
Read AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, this spec, alignment-feedback-loops.md, and landscape-gap-framework.md.
Checked recent work: current branch is one commit behind origin/main; recent debate-backfill commits exist, including 0971a8820 adding scripts/run_pending_debates.py.
Verified live PostgreSQL state via scidex.core.database.get_db(): 37 analyses currently have no linked debate_sessions row, so the task is still necessary.
Plan: use the existing resumable scripts/run_pending_debates.py runner for a bounded batch of 10, then verify the before/after missing count and that each new session has non-empty transcript_json/round content.

2026-04-21 21:55 UTC — Slot 54

Ran timeout 1800 python3 scripts/run_pending_debates.py --limit 10 --min-success 10; six sessions were committed before the shell timeout interrupted the seventh in-progress debate.
Resumed with timeout 1800 python3 scripts/run_pending_debates.py --limit 4 --min-success 4; four additional sessions committed successfully.
Runner summaries: initial before count was 37 analyses without sessions; resumed batch reduced the remaining count from 31 to 27.
Independent verification query found 10 new sessions created after 2026-04-21 14:07 America/Los_Angeles, each with transcript_json length 4, four debate_rounds rows, and minimum round content length >= 8,798 characters.
New session analysis IDs: SDA-2026-04-07-gap-pubmed-20260406-041428-53b81741, SDA-2026-04-07-gap-pubmed-20260406-062202-c8c5a9a1, SDA-2026-04-07-gap-pubmed-20260406-062141-611cf046, SDA-2026-04-07-gap-debate-20260406-062039-7ef9980b, SDA-2026-04-07-gap-debate-20260406-062033-839c3e2a, SDA-2026-04-07-gap-pubmed-20260406-041445-7e1dc0b2, SDA-2026-04-07-gap-pubmed-20260406-041434-d7920f3b, SDA-2026-04-07-gap-pubmed-20260406-041423-2d1db50c, SDA-2026-04-07-gap-pubmed-20260406-062118-2cdbb0dd, SDA-2026-04-07-gap-pubmed-20260406-062150-a6cc7467.
Result: Done — 10 analyses gained substantive debate coverage; remaining analyses without sessions is 27.

Payload JSON

{
  "requirements": {
    "analysis": 7,
    "reasoning": 6
  }
}

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