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Fixes #57.

What does this PR do?

Adds SCATTERSHOT_TOOL_USE, a structural detector for runs that fan out across many distinct tools instead of converging. It requires both a distinct-tool threshold and a minimum total-call count, registers the failure type across the SDK, schemas, and detector service, and remains shadowed by default while real-traffic precision is evaluated.

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • New feature / detector
  • Refactor / cleanup
  • Docs / config only
  • Other

Calibration

The default MAX_DISTINCT_TOOLS = 6 and MIN_TOTAL_CALLS = 8 pair produced:

  • 0/20 false positives
  • 14/16 true positives
  • 87.5% recall

The corpus includes legitimate coding, research, browser, data, and communication pipelines to exercise the main false-positive class.

Testing

  • make test passes locally
  • Added / updated tests for the change
  • Manually verified with a running stack (if applicable)

Validation completed:

  • SDK: 1,075 passed, 5 skipped
  • Detector service: 539 passed, 1 skipped
  • Schemas: 49 passed
  • ruff check
  • ruff format --check
  • SDK mypy
  • detector docs consistency checks
  • calibration harness
  • git diff --check

Checklist

  • No secrets, API keys, or personal data in the diff
  • detectors.yml updated for the new thresholds

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added scattershot tool-use detection for runs with many calls across multiple tools, with configurable thresholds and evidence.
    • Added instrumentation-degraded failure classification and reporting support.
  • Documentation
    • Updated detector coverage to 32 structural detectors and clarified runtime, pre-run, and shadow-mode availability.
    • Added configuration, calibration, baseline, threshold, and detector behavior guidance.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected detector counts across dashboard, SDK, policy, and architecture documentation.

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The pull request adds the SCATTERSHOT_TOOL_USE detector, wires its thresholds through configuration, adds calibration and explanation support, and updates tests and documentation. It also adds the INSTRUMENTATION_DEGRADED schema enum and revises detector inventory information.

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Scattershot tool-use detection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detector contract and SDK implementation
packages/schemas-py/..., packages/sdk-py/dunetrace/..., packages/sdk-py/tests/...
Adds failure types and a detector that requires six distinct tools and eight total calls. Tests cover evidence, thresholds, validation, and signal-policy overhead.
Service configuration and registration
detectors.yml, services/detector/...
Adds shadow-mode configuration, maps YAML thresholds to constructor arguments, registers the detector, and tests configuration parsing.
Threshold calibration workflow
scripts/calibrate_scattershot_tool_use.py, scripts/calibration/...
Adds deterministic corpus evaluation, threshold sweeps, metric reporting, recommendation selection, and calibration results.
Signal explanation and coverage
services/explainer/...
Adds and registers the SCATTERSHOT_TOOL_USE explanation template. Tests validate rendered evidence.
Detector inventory and documentation
README.md, dashboard/mission-control.html, docs/..., packages/sdk-py/README.md, packages/sdk-ts/README.md
Updates detector counts, shadow-mode descriptions, detector documentation, baseline guidance, and instrumentation-degraded failure documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 256c7

The detector addition is mergeable with owner awareness, but missing optional telemetry may still be interpreted as zero-valued telemetry and produce false Tier 1 signals; this should be followed up while precision is evaluated.

Suggested reviewers: dunetrace

Poem

Six tools gather, eight calls run,
A signal marks the scattered one.
Config maps each threshold true,
Tests check what the detector can do.
The rabbit hops through shadow mode.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The diff includes unrelated INSTRUMENTATION_DEGRADED enum and documentation changes outside issue #57. Remove the unrelated INSTRUMENTATION_DEGRADED changes or move them to a separate pull request.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 22.73% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: adding the SCATTERSHOT_TOOL_USE detector.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required summary, change type, testing details, and checklist, with useful calibration results.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation satisfies issue #57 by adding, registering, configuring, testing, calibrating, and documenting SCATTERSHOT_TOOL_USE.
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In `@docs/detector-packs/index.md`:
- Line 18: Update the built-in detectors description in the index documentation
to distinguish the total in-path count from the live count: state that 32
detectors are in path and 29 are live by default, accounting for
SCATTERSHOT_TOOL_USE remaining shadowed. Keep the surrounding always-on detector
description consistent with this terminology.

In `@packages/sdk-py/dunetrace/detectors.py`:
- Around line 352-372: Validate MAX_DISTINCT_TOOLS and MIN_TOTAL_CALLS during
the relevant detector’s construction, rejecting non-positive values before
on_run_completion can evaluate them. Preserve the existing threshold checks and
confidence calculation for valid configurations.

In `@README.md`:
- Line 47: Update the benchmark covering structural detection to register a
trigger="signal" policy for the SCATTERSHOT_TOOL_USE detector path, and measure
accumulated state.tool_calls at bounded representative call counts, including
six distinct tools and repeated calls. Validate the resulting benchmark before
applying the sub-500μs claim to all 29 in-path detectors.
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77-83: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not convert absent telemetry values to zero.

Line 79 and Line 80 treat None as an observed zero. Manual or legacy instrumentation can omit output_length and completion_tokens while still reporting latency. Two such calls then match this fingerprint and Line 4127 emits INSTRUMENTATION_DEGRADED. Because this detector is in TIER1_DETECTORS, the false signal can also satisfy a signal-trigger policy.

Require explicit zero values for both fields.

Proposed fix
 def _matches_degraded_fingerprint(call: "LlmCall") -> bool:
     return (
-        (call.output_length or 0) == 0
-        and (call.completion_tokens or 0) == 0
+        call.output_length == 0
+        and call.completion_tokens == 0
         and (call.latency_ms or 0) > 0
         and (call.finish_reason is None or call.finish_reason == "stop")
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- Around line 20-22: Update the detector overview to reflect 33 built-in
detectors, 30 TIER1_DETECTORS, and 30 live detectors, explicitly listing
INSTRUMENTATION_DEGRADED, OVERSIZED_TOOL_ARGUMENTS, and SCATTERSHOT_TOOL_USE as
non-live. Define “in-path” specifically as the raw-input PROMPT_INJECTION_SIGNAL
scan, and use distinct terminology for the TIER1_DETECTORS policy battery.

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Thanks for the first contribution. LGTM.

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dunetrace merged commit e6be935 into dunetrace:main Aug 21, 2026
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New detector: SCATTERSHOT_TOOL_USE, agent calls many distinct tools in one run

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