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fix(agent-sre): prefer higher quality at equal pareto cost - #4211

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Description

When equal-cost models arrive in lower-quality-first order, the Pareto frontier retains the lower-quality model as well as the better one. Reversing input order drops the dominated model, making the result depend on registration order.

Break equal-cost sorting ties by descending quality before scanning the frontier, and clarify the dominance description.

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The lower-quality-first regression fails before the fix; the reverse ordering is a control. Optimizer tests: 19 passed. Full package run: 1,496 passed, 3 skipped, 1 known baseline failure (the separate Windows benchmark clock bug).

All regressions were reproduced on origin/main 406ddd4d before the production change. Whitespace checks pass. Ruff passes on the changed files. Changed-line spelling passes with the existing API identifier Deduplicator allowed in the temporary check input.

Scope: the existing Agent-SRE source tree, which remains exercised by repository CI. Combined validation of these six independent SRE fixes: 1,505 passed, 3 skipped on Windows/Python 3.12.

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  • Bug fix (non-breaking correction of existing behavior)

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  • Changed code follows the project style checks; the exact validation scope is recorded above.
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  • The independent full package run has no failures: one pre-existing Windows benchmark failure remains, as documented above. Focused tests pass; the combined run with fix(agent-sre): measure benchmark duration with a monotonic clock #4206 passes (1,505 passed, 3 skipped).
  • Documentation is updated where needed; the behavior and compatibility implications are described above.
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  • Related prior contributions are credited below; this PR introduces no unattributed code from external projects.
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Prior art / related projects: Uses the existing Agent-SRE implementation and standard library operations. No code was copied or adapted from an external project.

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Newly reproduced defect; the reproduction and regression coverage are described above.

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Verified in code and locally: a cheap-first registration kept both points on main; the (cost, -quality) key gives ['better'] in both orders. Sign-off is present and CI is approved and running.

Before I approve, two process items that apply to all nine PRs in this batch: please use the repository template with its Checklist, Attribution, AI Assistance and IP sections, and tick the attestations in your own words. The AI note says Codex prepared and submitted the changes at your request; CONTRIBUTING asks that no PR be submitted by an agent without a human reviewing the specific changes, so one sentence confirming you reviewed this diff before it was opened settles it. Once that and the gated checks are green I will approve and merge.

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I reviewed the specific changes in this diff before the PR was opened. I have updated the description to use the repository template sections, completed the attestations with the validation scope and limitations, and clarified the AI-assistance note.

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Approving at c8bfb4c. Pareto selection prefers higher quality at equal cost; test reproduces the tie-break bug on main and passes here; ruff clean. Description uses the repository template with the attestations completed, and the author confirmed reviewing the diff before opening the PR. All 12 pull_request workflow runs on this head completed successfully. Commits are signed off.

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MohammadHaroonAbuomar merged commit d9a526d into microsoft:main Oct 2, 2026
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MohammadHaroonAbuomar pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 28, 2026
…Optimizer.recommend (#4469)

recommend sorted feasible models by cost alone, so among models with the
same cost the one registered first was marked is_optimal and chosen by
suggest_routing, even when another had a higher quality score and was the
only one of the two on the Pareto frontier. Break ties by quality, as
#4211 did for pareto_frontier.

Signed-off-by: Shivam Sharma <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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