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Ship and explain the CLI LLM summarizer

Page 8 packages proved vs unproved evidence so another engineer can run, trust, or reject the command-line LLM summarizer.

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Assemble the ship record

A shippable lab artifact includes: how to run it, the metric result (contract-test pass rate, latency, retry count, output length), the failure you can still reproduce (missing choices array treated as empty success, or retries on 400), the security gate for printing API_KEY or full prompts into logs, and a rollback note. The user decision it supports remains: turn one user passage into a bounded one-sentence summary via an HTTP-shaped client.

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Freeze the evidence

async function main(){const fake=async()=>({choices:[{message:{content:'Embeddings enable similarity search.'}}]});const r=await fake();console.log(r.choices[0].message.content)}
main();

Expected evidence: stage evidence for mastery ship. Store this beside the fixture version so scores remain meaningful after content changes in llm-api-hello.

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Explain limits without apology

State operating limits for the CLI LLM summarizer in plain language: fixture size, offline vs live dependencies, and what would require a new eval set. Shipping llm-api-hello is honest scoping, not maximal confidence language.

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Lab notebook: proved vs unproved

Fill this table in your notes for the CLI LLM summarizer:

  • Proved on system+user job object for an embeddings definition sentence: …
  • Unproved beyond the fixture: …
  • Metric that blocks release: contract-test pass rate, latency, retry count, output length
  • Failure still reproducible: missing choices array treated as empty success, or retries on 400
  • Security gate: printing API_KEY or full prompts into logs
  • Rollback: …

Ship the narrative only when the unproved list is honest. Reviewers trust narrow claims that support turn one user passage into a bounded one-sentence summary via an HTTP-shaped client more than maximal language that collapses under the first production oddity.

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Worked judgment

Hand your ship note to a peer and ask them to recreate a proved/unproved ship note with rollback without watching you type. If they cannot, your evidence is still tribal knowledge. Tighten the run command and the metric line until a stranger can validate the CLI LLM summarizer against system+user job object for an embeddings definition sentence.

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Why this stage matters for the CLI LLM summarizer

At the mastery and shipping stage for llm-api-hello, the job is narrower than finishing a product demo. You are creating one progressive evidence piece about system+user job object for an embeddings definition sentence that later pages inherit without redefining success. Keep that fixture small enough to inspect by hand, keep outputs copy-pasteable as text, and refuse to narrate this baseline as if it were a production SLA: offline fake transport producing a fixed summary.

For this page specifically, success looks like a proved/unproved ship note with rollback while still centering the user decision to turn one user passage into a bounded one-sentence summary via an HTTP-shaped client. If you cannot point to a file, command, or assertion that proves that for the CLI LLM summarizer, stay on this page instead of advancing.

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Why this matters

List two things this chapter proved on the fixture and two things it did not prove about the CLI LLM summarizer. If you cannot name the gaps, you are not ready to ship the narrative—even if the code runs.

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Answer from memory. Completion is saved from this evidence, not from opening the next page.

1. Are proved and unproved lists both non-empty?
2. Is rollback concrete (command or version pin)?
3. Would a stranger reproduce the metric on the fixture?
4. Does the note still center the decision: turn one user passage into a bounded one-sentence summary via an HTTP-shaped client?

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