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This is the backend for the Add Question Link modal.

A daily batch runs two free methods for every eligible question and runs three LLM methods on questions that haven't had question links computed for them for a while (most popular first, staleness threshold scales with popularity) until a daily USD budget is exhausted.

The modal reads from a new GET endpoint /api/coherence/question/<id>/suggested-links/ and falls back to the existing similar-questions list when the feature is disabled (SUGGESTIONS_AI_ENABLED, default off).

env variables to add:

  • SUGGESTIONS_AI_ENABLED (default false) set this to true to enable the feature
  • SUGGESTIONS_LIMIT_USD_DAILY (default 5) you can leave as-is if $150/mo seems like a reasonable budget for the feature. The daily budget will be exhausted every day
  • OPENAI_API_KEY_QUESTION_LINKS you can set this to the existing openai api key, or make a new one for the feature. It will NOT fall back on OPENAI_API_KEY

coherence/services/suggestions/README.md has the module map and details

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  • New Features

    • Added AI-powered coherence-link suggestions in the question-linking flow.
    • Suggestions are filtered for visibility and relevance, with similar-question results used as a fallback when AI suggestions are unavailable.
    • Added configurable daily processing, spending limits, and feature controls.
    • Added administrative visibility into suggestion results and processing status.
    • Added reporting for suggestion coverage, freshness, and budget usage.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance covering suggestion behavior, configuration, deployment, and budget management.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for eligibility, permissions, ordering, fallback behavior, failures, and feature controls.

This is the backend for the Add Question Link modal. It runs 5 methods
to find suggested question links:
  llm_broad        LLM over the full question pool, high recall
  llm_strict       LLM over the full pool, genuine causal influence only
  llm_similar_only LLM (strict) over an embedding shortlist
  similar          the existing Similar Questions signal
  community_link   an AggregateCoherenceLink already exists for the pair

A daily batch refreshes the two free signals for every eligible question
and runs the three LLM methods on stale targets (most popular first,
staleness threshold scales with popularity) until a daily USD budget is
exhausted.

The modal reads from a new endpoint
(GET /api/coherence/question/<id>/suggested-links/) and falls back to
the existing similar-questions list when the feature is disabled
(SUGGESTIONS_AI_ENABLED, default off).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds AI-generated coherence-link suggestions with stored votes, OpenAI-backed methods, free fallbacks, daily batch scheduling, budget tracking, an API endpoint, frontend integration, admin inspection, and tests.

Changes

Coherence-link suggestion system

Layer / File(s) Summary
Suggestion storage and coherence-link services
coherence/models.py, coherence/migrations/..., coherence/services/common.py, coherence/admin.py
Adds CoherenceLinkSuggestion, vote replacement, paid-run metadata, transactional coherence-link services, and read-only admin inspection.
Candidate generation and LLM voting
coherence/services/suggestions/pool.py, coherence/services/suggestions/prompts.py, coherence/services/suggestions/llm.py, coherence/services/suggestions/methods.py, coherence/services/suggestions/pipeline.py
Adds eligible-question pools, token-bounded prompts, structured LLM responses, free candidate methods, and paid/free vote updates.
Batch execution and observability
coherence/services/suggestions/scheduler.py, coherence/services/suggestions/budget.py, coherence/jobs.py, misc/management/commands/cron.py, coherence/services/suggestions/stats.py, coherence/management/commands/suggestion_stats.py, metaculus_web/settings.py, coherence/services/suggestions/README.md, pyproject.toml
Adds popularity-based staleness, daily budget controls, scheduled execution, statistics output, configuration, documentation, and the OpenAI version constraint.
Suggestion read API and interface
coherence/services/suggestions/read.py, coherence/views.py, coherence/urls.py, front_end/src/services/api/coherence_links/coherence_links.shared.ts, front_end/src/app/(main)/questions/components/coherence_links/add_coherence_link_modal.tsx, tests/unit/test_coherence/*
Adds visibility-filtered API responses, typed client access, AI suggestions with similar-question fallback, and coverage for eligibility, permissions, ordering, failures, and deleted targets.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a6edb

AI link suggestions may exceed the configured daily spending limit, occasionally show no alternatives when filtered results are empty, and can split coherence-link vote aggregation for reversed endpoints. These issues should be resolved before enabling the feature broadly.

Suggested reviewers: hlbmtc

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Inline comments:
In `@coherence/services/common.py`:
- Around line 88-92: Canonicalize the aggregate link endpoints before the
AggregateCoherenceLink.objects.get_or_create call by ordering question1 and
question2 by their IDs, then use that consistent order for both lookup and
creation so reversed CoherenceLink inputs reuse the same aggregate row.

In `@coherence/services/suggestions/budget.py`:
- Around line 25-30: Update spent_today_usd() to calculate daily spend from
immutable per-run cost data rather than the mutable paid_run_cost_usd field
reset by run_paid_methods_for_target(). Preserve correct totals when scheduler
batches overlap by recording each run’s cost separately or atomically
accumulating it in a dedicated daily-spend record.

In `@coherence/services/suggestions/llm.py`:
- Around line 97-100: Update the valid_ids construction in the LLM result flow
to remove target_id before passing the set to _parse_candidate_ids, ensuring
model responses cannot produce a self-suggestion while preserving validation of
all other candidate IDs.
- Around line 143-150: The _cost_usd calculation must apply gpt-5.6-luna
long-context pricing when the request exceeds 272,000 input tokens: use 2× input
and cached-input rates and 1.5× output rates for the full request before
returning cost_usd, while preserving short-context pricing at or below the
threshold. Add tests immediately below and above the threshold covering the
resulting persisted cost.

In `@coherence/services/suggestions/scheduler.py`:
- Around line 167-201: The paid-run submission loop in the daily batch scheduler
must reserve ESTIMATED_PER_TARGET_USD atomically before each executor.submit
call, preventing concurrent submissions from overspending shared budget. Track
each reservation alongside its in-flight future, then reconcile or release the
reserved amount using the actual run cost when the future completes; preserve
the existing headroom and stopped behavior.

In
`@front_end/src/app/`(main)/questions/components/coherence_links/add_coherence_link_modal.tsx:
- Around line 121-137: Filter the AI-derived questions with isLinkable before
assigning fromAi in the suggestion-loading flow. Set fromAi based on whether the
filtered AI list is non-empty, and call ClientPostsApi.getSimilarPosts when it
is empty so invalid or already-linked AI candidates trigger the existing
fallback.
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88-92: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Canonicalize aggregate link endpoints before lookup.

This lookup uses the caller's endpoint order. A reversed CoherenceLink creates a second AggregateCoherenceLink for the same logical pair. Community-link reads search both orientations, but aggregate votes remain split between the two rows. Order the questions by ID before get_or_create.

Proposed fix
 def create_aggregate_coherence_link(
     *,
     question1: Question = None,
     question2: Question = None,
     link_type: LinkType = None,
 ):
     with transaction.atomic():
+        if question1.id > question2.id:
+            question1, question2 = question2, question1
         obj, created = AggregateCoherenceLink.objects.get_or_create(
             question1=question1,
             question2=question2,
             type=link_type,
         )
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In `@coherence/services/common.py` around lines 88 - 92, Canonicalize the
aggregate link endpoints before the AggregateCoherenceLink.objects.get_or_create
call by ordering question1 and question2 by their IDs, then use that consistent
order for both lookup and creation so reversed CoherenceLink inputs reuse the
same aggregate row.
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Inline comments:
In `@coherence/services/suggestions/budget.py`:
- Around line 25-30: Update spent_today_usd() to calculate daily spend from
immutable per-run cost data rather than the mutable paid_run_cost_usd field
reset by run_paid_methods_for_target(). Preserve correct totals when scheduler
batches overlap by recording each run’s cost separately or atomically
accumulating it in a dedicated daily-spend record.

In `@coherence/services/suggestions/llm.py`:
- Around line 97-100: Update the valid_ids construction in the LLM result flow
to remove target_id before passing the set to _parse_candidate_ids, ensuring
model responses cannot produce a self-suggestion while preserving validation of
all other candidate IDs.
- Around line 143-150: The _cost_usd calculation must apply gpt-5.6-luna
long-context pricing when the request exceeds 272,000 input tokens: use 2× input
and cached-input rates and 1.5× output rates for the full request before
returning cost_usd, while preserving short-context pricing at or below the
threshold. Add tests immediately below and above the threshold covering the
resulting persisted cost.

In `@coherence/services/suggestions/scheduler.py`:
- Around line 167-201: The paid-run submission loop in the daily batch scheduler
must reserve ESTIMATED_PER_TARGET_USD atomically before each executor.submit
call, preventing concurrent submissions from overspending shared budget. Track
each reservation alongside its in-flight future, then reconcile or release the
reserved amount using the actual run cost when the future completes; preserve
the existing headroom and stopped behavior.

In
`@front_end/src/app/`(main)/questions/components/coherence_links/add_coherence_link_modal.tsx:
- Around line 121-137: Filter the AI-derived questions with isLinkable before
assigning fromAi in the suggestion-loading flow. Set fromAi based on whether the
filtered AI list is non-empty, and call ClientPostsApi.getSimilarPosts when it
is empty so invalid or already-linked AI candidates trigger the existing
fallback.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@coherence/services/common.py`:
- Around line 88-92: Canonicalize the aggregate link endpoints before the
AggregateCoherenceLink.objects.get_or_create call by ordering question1 and
question2 by their IDs, then use that consistent order for both lookup and
creation so reversed CoherenceLink inputs reuse the same aggregate row.
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Comment thread coherence/services/suggestions/budget.py Outdated
Comment thread coherence/services/suggestions/parsing.py Outdated
Replace the manual response_format dict + tolerant JSON fallback with
client.chat.completions.parse(response_format=MethodResponse): the SDK
derives a strict-mode schema from the Pydantic model, so the API
guarantees schema-valid JSON and hands back a validated object. The
almost-JSON extractor (parsing.py) is deleted; what can still go wrong
is handled narrowly instead:

  - refusal / empty output  -> no_parsed_output, cost still recorded
  - output truncated at MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS -> LengthFinishReasonError,
    spend recorded from the usage the exception carries
  - hallucinated / duplicate candidate ids -> still filtered, since
    strict mode constrains shape, not values

With the suggestions caller gone, revert pydantic_to_openai_json_schema
to its original single-caller form (key factors).

Also drop `from __future__ import annotations` everywhere in the module:
we run Python 3.12 and no annotation needs deferred evaluation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELycNiHGLBGRtCRF2dETet
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