Module: PWN::AI::Agent::Learning

Defined in:
lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb

Overview

PWN::AI::Agent::Learning is the self-improvement engine that closes the pwn-ai feedback loop. It captures task outcomes, mines session transcripts for durable lessons, promotes successful workflows into reusable skills, and prunes / consolidates persistent memory so the agent gets sharper over time instead of accumulating noise.

Data flows:

Loop.run --(tool telemetry)--> Metrics.record
Loop.run --(final answer)----> Learning.auto_introspect (opt-in)
model    --(tool calls)------> learning_note_outcome / _distill_skill
PromptBuilder <----------------- Learning.to_context + Metrics.to_context

Everything is file-backed under ~/.pwn so it survives across REPL restarts and is shared by every future session.

Constant Summary collapse

LEARNING_FILE =
File.join(Dir.home, '.pwn', 'learning.jsonl')
FINETUNE_DIR =
File.join(Dir.home, '.pwn', 'finetune')
MAX_MEMORY_ENTRIES =
200
CLAIM_RX =
/CVE-\d{4}-\d{4,7}|\b[A-Za-z][\w.+-]{2,}\s+v?\d+\.\d+(?:\.\d+)?\b/
FAILURE_FINAL_RX =
/\[pwn-ai\] (iteration budget exhausted|engine returned no message)|\b(i (was )?unable to|i could not|i couldn'?t|cannot proceed|failed to)\b/i

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.authorsObject

Author(s)

0day Inc. support@0dayinc.com



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 676

public_class_method def self.authors
  "AUTHOR(S):\n  0day Inc. <support@0dayinc.com>\n"
end

.auto_introspect(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.auto_introspect( session_id: 'required - id of the just-completed session', request: 'optional - original user request (for outcome logging)', final: 'optional - final assistant answer (for outcome logging)' )

Called by Loop.run when PWN::Env[:agent][:auto_introspect] is truthy. Never raises — learning must not break the primary loop.



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 294

public_class_method def self.auto_introspect(opts = {})
  session_id = opts[:session_id]
  return unless session_id
  return unless auto_introspect_enabled?

  proxy_ok = infer_success(session_id: session_id, final: opts[:final])
  # S3 — tool-armed constitutional critic runs BEFORE the reward
  # model so its verdict is evidence, not hindsight.
  crit = defined?(Curriculum) ? Curriculum.critic(request: opts[:request], final: opts[:final], session_id: session_id) : { verdict: :pass }
  # R1 — LLM Outcome Reward Model (falls back to calibrated heuristic)
  v = Reward.judge(request: opts[:request], final: opts[:final], session_id: session_id, proxy_ok: proxy_ok) if defined?(Reward)
  v ||= { score: proxy_ok ? 1.0 : 0.0, success: proxy_ok, verdict: proxy_ok ? :solved : :wrong }
  v[:score] = [v[:score], 0.3].min if crit[:verdict] == :flaw
  ok = v[:score] >= 0.6

  # W1 — complete any pending (rejected, chosen) pair from a
  # user correction on the previous turn.
  pend = Thread.current[:pwn_pending_pref]
  if pend && ok && defined?(Reward)
    Reward.record_preference(prompt: pend[:prompt], rejected: pend[:rejected], chosen: opts[:final].to_s, source: :user_correction)
    Thread.current[:pwn_pending_pref] = nil
  end

  note_outcome(
    task: opts[:request].to_s[0, 120],
    success: ok,
    score: v[:score],
    details: "#{v[:verdict]}(#{v[:score].round(2)}) #{v[:rationale]} | #{opts[:final].to_s[0, 200]}",
    session_id: session_id,
    tags: ['auto', 'loop', v[:verdict].to_s]
  )
  # R2 — per-step credit assignment; C3 — HER on failure
  Reward.prm(request: opts[:request], session_id: session_id) if defined?(Reward) && ok
  Curriculum.hindsight(request: opts[:request], final: opts[:final], session_id: session_id) if !ok && defined?(Curriculum)
  # W3 — calibration: predicted (from plan_first) vs actual
  Curriculum.calibrate(predicted: opts[:predicted], actual: v[:score], engine: PWN::Env.dig(:ai, :active)) if opts[:predicted] && defined?(Curriculum)
  reflect(session_id: session_id) if ok
  Reward.sentinel if defined?(Reward)
  Extrospection.auto_extrospect(session_id: session_id) if defined?(Extrospection)
rescue StandardError => e
  warn "[pwn-ai/learning] auto_introspect swallowed: #{e.class}: #{e.message}"
  nil
end

.consolidate(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

removed = PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.consolidate( max_entries: 'optional - hard cap on PWN::Memory size (default MAX_MEMORY_ENTRIES)' )

Deduplicates near-identical lesson values and prunes the oldest entries once the cap is exceeded so the injected MEMORY block stays high-signal.



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 381

public_class_method def self.consolidate(opts = {})
  cap = opts[:max_entries] || MAX_MEMORY_ENTRIES
  return { removed: 0 } unless defined?(PWN::Memory)

  mem = PWN::Memory.load
  removed = []

  # M1 — semantic clustering: embed :lesson entries, greedy-merge
  # near-duplicates (cosine ≥ 0.92) via Reflect into ONE imperative
  # lesson. Falls back to sha-dedup when no embed backend.
  removed.concat(semantic_merge(mem: mem)) if defined?(PWN::MemoryIndex) && PWN::MemoryIndex.available?

  seen = {}
  mem.each do |k, v|
    sig = Digest::SHA256.hexdigest(v[:value].to_s.strip.downcase)[0, 16]
    seen[sig] ? removed << k : seen[sig] = k
  end
  removed.uniq.each { |k| mem.delete(k) }

  # M3 — evict by (age/ttl) / (importance × confidence), NOT
  # oldest-first. Hand-written high-value lessons survive; low-
  # confidence :heuristic auto-gen self-evicts first.
  if mem.size > cap
    now = Time.now.utc
    sorted = mem.sort_by do |_k, v|
      age_d = (now - Time.parse(v[:timestamp].to_s)) / 86_400.0
      ttl_d = (v[:ttl].to_f / 86_400.0)
      imp   = (v[:importance] || 0.5).to_f.clamp(0.05, 1.0)
      conf  = (v[:confidence] || (v[:source].to_s == 'human' ? 0.95 : 0.5)).to_f.clamp(0.05, 1.0)
      staleness = ttl_d.positive? ? age_d / ttl_d : age_d / 90.0
      -(staleness / (imp * conf))
    rescue StandardError
      0.0
    end
    drop = sorted.first(mem.size - cap).map(&:first)
    drop.each { |k| mem.delete(k) }
    removed.concat(drop)
  end
  PWN::Memory.save(mem: mem)
  { removed: removed.uniq.length, remaining: mem.size }
end

.distill_skill(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

skill = PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.distill_skill( name: 'required - snake_case name for the new skill', session_id: 'optional - PWN::Sessions id to mine (uses its transcript)', content: 'optional - explicit markdown body; overrides transcript mining', references: 'optional - Array of reference URLs / CWE / CVE / ATT&CK ids' )



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 227

public_class_method def self.distill_skill(opts = {})
  raise 'ERROR: name is required' if opts[:name].to_s.strip.empty?

  body = opts[:content].to_s
  body = build_skill_from_session(session_id: opts[:session_id], name: opts[:name]) if body.strip.empty? && opts[:session_id]
  raise 'ERROR: content or session_id is required' if body.strip.empty?

  root = skills_dir
  out  = PWN::Config.write_skill(
    name: opts[:name],
    description: opts[:description],
    content: body,
    references: opts[:references],
    pwn_skills_path: root
  )
  PWN::Config.load_skills(pwn_skills_path: root) if PWN::Config.respond_to?(:load_skills)
  note_outcome(task: "distill_skill:#{out[:name]}", success: true, details: "Saved #{out[:path]}", tags: %w[skill auto])
  out.merge(saved: true)
end

.exemplars_for(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

msgs = PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.exemplars_for( request: 'required - current user request', limit: 'optional - max exemplar traces to return (default 1)', max_msgs: 'optional - cap on messages per exemplar (default 6)' )

Retrieval-augmented BEHAVIOUR: keyword-matches request against prior successful outcomes in learning.jsonl, loads the matching session, and compresses its (user, tool, assistant) trace into a short few-shot exemplar Loop.run splices between system and user. Local models are dramatically better with 1 concrete example than with 25 abstract lessons.



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 151

public_class_method def self.exemplars_for(opts = {})
  request  = opts[:request].to_s.downcase
  limit    = (opts[:limit]    || 1).to_i
  max_msgs = (opts[:max_msgs] || 6).to_i
  return [] if request.strip.empty?

  tokens = request.scan(/[a-z0-9_]{3,}/).uniq
  return [] if tokens.empty?

  now = Time.now.utc
  # C2 — prioritized replay: priority = judge_score × recency_decay × keyword_sim
  pool = outcomes(limit: 500, success: true).reject { |r| r[:session_id].to_s.empty? }
  scored = pool.map do |r|
    sim   = tokens.count { |t| r[:task].to_s.downcase.include?(t) }.to_f / tokens.length
    age_d = (now - Time.parse(r[:timestamp].to_s)) / 86_400.0
    decay = Math.exp(-age_d / 30.0)
    score = (r[:score] || 1.0).to_f
    [r, sim * decay * score]
  rescue StandardError
    [r, 0.0]
  end
  hits = scored.reject { |_, pr| pr <= 0.0 }.sort_by { |_, pr| -pr }.first(limit).map(&:first)

  hits.flat_map { |r| compress_exemplar(session_id: r[:session_id], max_msgs: max_msgs) }
rescue StandardError
  []
end

.export_finetune(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

info = PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.export_finetune( format: 'optional - :sharegpt (default) | :openai_jsonl', out: 'optional - output path (default ~/.pwn/finetune/pwn-YYYYMMDD.jsonl)', min_tools: 'optional - only sessions with >= N tool messages (default 1)' )

Turns the learning corpus into a supervised dataset: every session whose learning.jsonl outcome is success:true becomes one training sample (system, user, assistant/tool_calls, tool, ..., final). Pair with a weekly PWN::Cron job that runs ollama create <tag>-pwn -f Modelfile over the export - the only path to ACTUAL parity with a frontier model, because it changes the weights not just the scaffold.



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 193

public_class_method def self.export_finetune(opts = {})
  fmt       = (opts[:format] || :sharegpt).to_sym
  min_tools = (opts[:min_tools] || 1).to_i
  FileUtils.mkdir_p(FINETUNE_DIR)
  out = opts[:out] || File.join(FINETUNE_DIR, "pwn-#{Time.now.utc.strftime('%Y%m%d')}.jsonl")

  sids = outcomes(limit: 10_000, success: true).map { |r| r[:session_id] }.compact.uniq
  rows = 0
  File.open(out, 'w') do |f|
    sids.each do |sid|
      t = PWN::Sessions.load(session_id: sid)
      next if t.count { |e| e[:role].to_s == 'tool' } < min_tools

      conv = t.map { |e| { role: e[:role].to_s, content: e[:content].to_s } }
              .reject { |e| e[:role] == 'system' && e[:content].start_with?('Session started') }
      line = case fmt
             when :openai_jsonl then { messages: conv }
             else { conversations: conv.map { |m| { from: sharegpt_role(role: m[:role]), value: m[:content] } } }
             end
      f.puts(JSON.generate(line))
      rows += 1
    end
  end
  { path: out, format: fmt, sessions: sids.length, samples: rows, bytes: File.size(out) }
end

.flip_last_outcome(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.flip_last_outcome( session_id: 'optional - only flip if the newest outcome belongs to this session', reason: 'optional - why it is being flipped (usually the user correction text)' )

Rewrites the most-recently-appended learning.jsonl entry from success:true to success:false. Called by Mistakes.check_user_correction when the user's next message rejects the previous answer, so the 100 %-success illusion is broken and the failure enters the corpus.



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 349

public_class_method def self.flip_last_outcome(opts = {})
  return { flipped: false } unless File.exist?(LEARNING_FILE)

  lines = File.readlines(LEARNING_FILE)
  return { flipped: false } if lines.empty?

  last = JSON.parse(lines.last, symbolize_names: true)
  return { flipped: false } if opts[:session_id] && last[:session_id] && last[:session_id] != opts[:session_id]
  return { flipped: false } unless last[:success]

  last[:success]    = false
  last[:flipped_by] = 'user_correction'
  last[:details]    = "#{last[:details]} | CORRECTED: #{opts[:reason].to_s[0, 200]}".strip
  last[:score]      = 0.0
  lines[-1] = "#{JSON.generate(last)}\n"
  File.write(LEARNING_FILE, lines.join)
  # W1 — the (rejected_prev_answer, chosen_next_answer) pair is
  # captured by Mistakes.check_user_correction which has both.
  { flipped: true, id: last[:id], rejected: last[:details].to_s[0, 2_000] }
rescue StandardError
  { flipped: false }
end

.helpObject

Display Usage for this Module



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 682

public_class_method def self.help
  puts <<~USAGE
    USAGE:
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.note_outcome(task: 'nmap sweep 10.0.0.0/24', success: true, details: '12 hosts up')
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.outcomes(limit: 20, success: false)
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.reflect(session_id: sid)              # LLM or heuristic → PWN::Memory
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.auto_introspect(session_id: sid, request: req, final: text)
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.distill_skill(name: 'quick_recon', session_id: sid)
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.exemplars_for(request: 'nmap sweep 10/8')  # few-shot for Loop.run
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.export_finetune(format: :sharegpt)        # -> ~/.pwn/finetune/*.jsonl
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.consolidate(max_entries: 200)         # M1 semantic-merge + M3 importance-evict
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.purge_noise                            # one-shot GC of pre-R1 garbage lessons
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.to_context(limit: 5)                  # injected by PromptBuilder
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.stats
      PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.reset

      Enable end-of-run auto-learning with:
        PWN::Env[:ai][:agent][:auto_introspect] = true

      #{self}.authors
  USAGE
end

.note_outcome(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

entry = PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.note_outcome( task: 'required - short description of what was attempted', success: 'required - Boolean, did the attempt achieve its goal', details: 'optional - free-form notes / error / evidence', session_id: 'optional - PWN::Sessions id this outcome belongs to', tags: 'optional - Array of String labels for later retrieval' )



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 40

public_class_method def self.note_outcome(opts = {})
  task    = opts[:task].to_s
  success = opts[:success] ? true : false
  raise 'ERROR: task is required' if task.strip.empty?

  entry = {
    id: Digest::SHA256.hexdigest("#{task}-#{Time.now.to_f}")[0, 12],
    task: task,
    success: success,
    details: opts[:details].to_s[0, 2_000],
    session_id: opts[:session_id],
    tags: Array(opts[:tags]).map(&:to_s),
    timestamp: Time.now.utc.iso8601
  }
  entry[:score] = opts[:score].to_f if opts.key?(:score)
  FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(LEARNING_FILE))
  File.open(LEARNING_FILE, 'a') { |f| f.puts(JSON.generate(entry)) }

  # M4 — outcomes live in learning.jsonl ONLY. PWN::Memory[:lesson] is
  # reserved for reflect / mistakes_resolve / human — this alone
  # removed 40 % of the noise in the injected MEMORY block.
  entry
end

.outcomes(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

rows = PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.outcomes( limit: 'optional - max entries returned newest-first (default 50)', success: 'optional - filter by Boolean outcome', tag: 'optional - filter by tag substring' )



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 71

public_class_method def self.outcomes(opts = {})
  limit   = opts[:limit] || 50
  want_ok = opts.key?(:success) ? !opts[:success].nil? && opts[:success] != false : nil
  tag     = opts[:tag].to_s.downcase
  return [] unless File.exist?(LEARNING_FILE)

  rows = File.readlines(LEARNING_FILE).map do |l|
    JSON.parse(l, symbolize_names: true)
  rescue StandardError
    nil
  end
  rows.compact!
  rows.select! { |r| r[:success] == want_ok } unless want_ok.nil?
  rows.select! { |r| Array(r[:tags]).any? { |t| t.to_s.downcase.include?(tag) } } unless tag.empty?
  rows.reverse.first(limit)
end

.purge_noiseObject

Supported Method Parameters

PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.purge_noise

One-shot GC of the pre-R1 garbage: drops every PWN::Memory entry matching the old SUCCESS: <req> — <final> / Avoid repeating failure pattern from <tool>: {"success":true shapes. Run once after upgrading; subsequent writes never produce these.



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 658

public_class_method def self.purge_noise
  return { removed: 0 } unless defined?(PWN::Memory)

  mem = PWN::Memory.load
  before = mem.size
  mem.reject! do |_k, v|
    next false unless v[:category].to_s == 'lesson'

    val = v[:value].to_s
    val.start_with?('SUCCESS: ', 'FAILURE: ') ||
      val.match?(/\AAvoid repeating failure pattern from \w+: .{0,5}\{"success":true/)
  end
  PWN::Memory.save(mem: mem)
  { removed: before - mem.size, remaining: mem.size }
end

.reflect(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

report = PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.reflect( session_id: 'required - PWN::Sessions id to analyse', dry_run: 'optional - when true, do not write to Memory/Skills (default false)' )

Uses PWN::AI::Agent::Reflect (when available) to LLM-summarise the session into structured lessons. Falls back to a heuristic extractor when module_reflection is disabled so learning never stops.



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 257

public_class_method def self.reflect(opts = {})
  session_id = opts[:session_id]
  dry_run    = opts[:dry_run] ? true : false
  raise 'ERROR: session_id is required' if session_id.to_s.empty?

  transcript = PWN::Sessions.load(session_id: session_id)
  return { session_id: session_id, lessons: [], reason: 'empty transcript' } if transcript.empty?

  lessons = introspective_lessons(transcript: transcript)
  source, conf = lessons.empty? ? [:heuristic, 0.3] : [:reflect, 0.8]
  lessons = heuristic_lessons(transcript: transcript) if lessons.empty?

  saved = []
  lessons.each do |l|
    next if l.to_s.strip.empty?

    key = :"reflect_#{session_id}_#{Digest::SHA256.hexdigest(l)[0, 8]}"
    # M3 — provenance + confidence + ttl so consolidate evicts
    # low-confidence heuristic lessons before hand-written ones.
    PWN::Memory.remember(key: key, value: l, category: :lesson, source: source, confidence: conf, importance: conf, ttl: source == :heuristic ? 7 * 86_400 : nil) unless dry_run
    saved << { key: key, lesson: l }
  end
  consolidate unless dry_run

  { session_id: session_id, lessons: saved, count: saved.length, dry_run: dry_run }
end

.resetObject

Supported Method Parameters

PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.reset



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 426

public_class_method def self.reset
  FileUtils.rm_f(LEARNING_FILE)
  { cleared: true }
end

.statsObject

Supported Method Parameters

stats = PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.stats



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 91

public_class_method def self.stats
  rows   = outcomes(limit: 10_000)
  total  = rows.length
  ok     = rows.count { |r| r[:success] }
  jsum   = rows.sum { |r| r[:score] ? r[:score].to_f : { true => 1.0, false => 0.0 }[r[:success]] }
  skills = defined?(PWN::Skills) && PWN::Skills.is_a?(Hash) ? PWN::Skills.keys.length : 0
  mem    = defined?(PWN::Memory) ? PWN::Memory.load.keys.length : 0
  {
    total_outcomes: total,
    successes: ok,
    failures: total - ok,
    success_rate: total.positive? ? (ok.to_f / total).round(3) : 0.0,
    skills_known: skills,
    memory_entries: mem,
    judge_mean: total.positive? ? (jsum / total).round(3) : nil,
    reward_sentinel: (Reward.sentinel if defined?(Reward)),
    calibration: (Metrics.calibration if defined?(Metrics) && Metrics.respond_to?(:calibration)),
    preference_pairs: (Reward.preferences(limit: 100_000).length if defined?(Reward)),
    tool_metrics: (Metrics.summary(limit: 5) if defined?(Metrics)),
    extrospection: (Extrospection.stats if defined?(Extrospection))
  }
end

.to_context(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Supported Method Parameters

ctx = PWN::AI::Agent::Learning.to_context( limit: 'optional - number of recent outcomes to surface (default 5)' )



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# File 'lib/pwn/ai/agent/learning.rb', line 119

public_class_method def self.to_context(opts = {})
  limit = opts[:limit] || 5
  rows  = outcomes(limit: limit)
  fails = outcomes(limit: 200, success: false).first(limit)
  return '' if rows.empty? && fails.empty?

  fmt = lambda do |r|
    flag = r[:success] ? '' : ''
    "  #{flag} #{r[:task].to_s[0, 100]} (#{r[:timestamp]})"
  end
  s   = stats
  jm  = s[:judge_mean]
  hdr = "RECENT OUTCOMES (success_rate=#{(s[:success_rate] * 100).round(1)}%#{" judge_mean=#{jm}" if jm} over #{s[:total_outcomes]} attempts)"
  out = "#{hdr}\n#{rows.map(&fmt).join("\n")}\n"
  out += "RECENT FAILURES (learn from these — do not repeat)\n#{fails.map(&fmt).join("\n")}\n" unless fails.empty?
  "#{out}\n"
end