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Closes HAL-1374.

A 10-K's tree is fine where nothing is and coarse where everything is. TOCBuilder.SplitLeavesOver (default 20 pages when a Judge is set, negative to disable) splits a big leaf at its own headings — a nested contents page when there is one, otherwise heading-shaped lines the Judge confirms — with the section's opening as its first sub-leaf. judgewalk now takes sections in rank order until the page budget is full instead of stopping at five.

FinanceBench, 21 filings, 40 questions (evaluation):

unsplit split at 20
span of the leaf holding a gold page, median 37 p 6 p
gold pages inside a leaf 47 / 47 47 / 47
right section chosen 39 / 40 40 / 40
every gold page in the evidence 36 / 40 36 / 40
requests / cost per question 4.2 / $0.0035 4.3 / $0.0039

Cost is in the TOC stage: ~13 Judge requests per filing against 3, about $0.006 against $0.0007, and 489 s wall at parallel 8 against 122 s.

The sweep is in the evaluation: the navigator fix it forced (5 sections → the page budget), the per-page cap that made every threshold identical, and the tightened budget that lost coverage by leaving a section's opening pages in no leaf. Local suite green; CI red is the billing lock (HAL-1354).

Summary by Sourcery

Improve evidence retrieval by making oversized document sections more granular and allowing navigation to use the available page budget effectively.

New Features:

  • Split large table-of-contents leaves into judge-confirmed sub-sections, using nested contents pages or document headings, with a configurable threshold and a default of 20 pages when judging is enabled.

Bug Fixes:

  • Preserve a split section's opening pages in a dedicated sub-leaf so evidence pages are not left uncovered.
  • Allow navigation to select ranked sections until the page budget is filled instead of imposing a fixed five-section limit.

Enhancements:

  • Select the most confident heading candidates while limiting sub-leaf density and filtering likely running headers and document furniture.

Documentation:

  • Add a FinanceBench evaluation documenting the leaf-granularity sweep, navigation adjustment, coverage trade-offs, costs, and reproduction steps.

Tests:

  • Add coverage for nested-contents and heading-based splitting, opening-page preservation, heading filtering, per-page selection limits, and disabled/default split behavior.
  • Add navigation coverage for filling the coarse page budget on finely split trees.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Large table-of-contents sections can now be automatically split into smaller subsections using internal headings.
    • Added a command-line option to control page-based subsection splitting, including disabling it.
    • Navigation can now select sections based on the available page budget without a fixed default section limit.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved rank-based section selection so finely divided sections are prioritized within the page budget.
  • Documentation

    • Updated evaluation results with subsection-granularity measurements across multiple split thresholds.

… Judge

HAL-1374. A 10-K's tree is fine where nothing is and coarse where
everything is: Items 1B–4 are a paragraph each, Item 8 and its notes
are 70 pages under one title. Retrieval pays for it, and "Item 8" is
not a citation.

TOCBuilder.SplitLeavesOver splits any leaf spanning more pages than
that at its own headings, the way the top level was built: code lists
candidates, the Judge confirms. Two sources, in order of trust — a
nested contents page inside the leaf (Item 8's "Index to the
Consolidated Financial Statements"), parsed, confirmed and resolved
exactly like the document's contents; failing that, heading-shaped
lines, short and line-opening and not repeated across pages, each
judged with the lines that follow it. Sub-leaves get the parent's
structure prefix and derive their end pages under the parent's.
tocdump -split N.
…ng at five sections

On a 10-K split into ~80 sub-leaves, MaxLeaves=5 gathered five one-page
notes and read 3–8 pages of a 40-page budget; hits fell 33 → 31 with
the right sections in the tree. Sections are now taken in rank order
until the coarse budget is gathered; MaxLeaves is an optional cap.
The splitter no longer emits the parent's own title as a sub-leaf.
…y confidence

The one-per-two-pages cap decided every split — 68 leaves per filing at
T=8, 12 and 20 alike — and kept the earliest headings, not the best.
Headings found without an index now get about one sub-leaf per half
threshold of pages, the most confident kept, then page order.
… by default at 20 pages

Sub-leaves began at the first confirmed heading, so the pages before it
— Item 8's index and the auditor's report — belonged to no leaf, and a
gold page there was inside nothing (47/47 → 39/47 on the tightened
run). The section's opening is now its first sub-leaf.

The half-threshold budget dropped real headings; one sub-leaf per two
pages, the most confident kept, is restored. Splitting defaults to 20
pages whenever a Judge is set: at 8, 12 and 20 navigation was alike
(right section 40/40, evidence 36/40) and 20 costs the least.
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This PR makes oversized filing sections more granular by deriving Judge-confirmed sub-leaves from nested contents pages or internal headings, preserves otherwise-unassigned opening pages, and updates navigation to use the available page budget across ranked sections. The default 20-page split improves section selection and citation locality in the reported FinanceBench evaluation, at the cost of additional TOC-stage Judge calls, latency, and spend.

Sequence diagram for Judge-confirmed section splitting

sequenceDiagram
    participant Builder as TOCBuilder
    participant Pages as FilingPages
    participant Judge
    participant Tree as TOCTree
    Builder->>Tree: Build
    Builder->>Pages: Find pages inside oversized leaf
    Pages-->>Builder: Leaf text and page spans
    Builder->>Pages: Find nested contents or heading-shaped lines
    Pages-->>Builder: Candidate entries
    Builder->>Judge: Judge candidate headings
    Judge-->>Builder: Confirmation probabilities
    Builder->>Tree: Add confirmed sub-leaves
    Builder->>Tree: Add opening sub-leaf when needed
    Builder->>Tree: Derive child end pages
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Flow diagram for Judge-confirmed leaf splitting

flowchart TD
    A[TOCBuilder.Build] --> B[Derive leaf end pages]
    B --> C{Leaf exceeds split threshold?}
    C -->|No| D[Keep leaf]
    C -->|Yes| E[Find nested contents or heading candidates]
    E --> F[Judge confirms candidates]
    F --> G{At least two sub-sections?}
    G -->|No| D
    G -->|Yes| H[Add opening pages as parent-titled sub-leaf]
    H --> I[Keep ranked sub-leaves within page cap]
    I --> J[Derive child end pages and stamp node IDs]
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Flow diagram for page-budget-driven navigation

flowchart TD
    A[Rank candidate sections] --> B[Select next section in rank order]
    B --> C[Gather section pages]
    C --> D{Page budget gathered?}
    D -->|No| B
    D -->|Yes| E[Judge gathered pages up to MaxPages]
    D -->|No sections remain| E
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Change Details Files
Adds Judge-backed splitting of oversized TOC leaves into evidence-sized sub-leaves.
  • Introduces configurable split thresholds with a Judge-dependent default of 20 pages and explicit disable behavior.
  • Uses nested contents pages first, then filtered heading-shaped lines confirmed and ranked by the Judge.
  • Preserves the parent section’s opening pages as an initial sub-leaf and derives child spans and stable structures.
  • Tracks Judge usage and degrades gracefully by retaining the original leaf when splitting fails.
  • Adds coverage for contents-derived splits, heading-derived splits, running-header filtering, and configuration behavior.
pkg/ingest/toc_builder.go
pkg/ingest/toc_split.go
pkg/ingest/toc_split_test.go
cmd/tocdump/main.go
Changes navigation to consume ranked sections until the page budget is exhausted rather than applying a default five-section limit.
  • Makes zero MaxLeaves mean effectively unlimited sections, with the page budget governing selection.
  • Updates navbench’s default to use page-budget selection and documents the new behavior.
  • Adds a regression test for filling the coarse page budget on finely split trees.
pkg/retrieval/judgewalk.go
pkg/retrieval/judgewalk_test.go
cmd/navbench/main.go
Documents the evaluation results, tradeoffs, and reproduction steps for the new leaf granularity.
  • Reports improved leaf spans and section selection while preserving evidence-page coverage on the FinanceBench corpus.
  • Records Judge request, latency, and cost increases from the TOC splitting stage.
  • Explains the navigator fix, heading cap, opening-page coverage fix, and selected default threshold.
docs/evaluations/2026-09-19-leaf-granularity.md

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The change adds Judge-confirmed splitting for oversized TOC leaves, exposes split configuration in tocdump, removes default navigation leaf limits, adds regression tests, and updates evaluation leaf counts.

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Leaf Granularity and Navigation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Page-budget navigation
cmd/navbench/main.go, pkg/retrieval/judgewalk.go, pkg/retrieval/judgewalk_test.go
MaxLeaves=0 now lets the page budget determine section selection. The navbench default and regression coverage use this behavior.
TOC split configuration and orchestration
cmd/tocdump/main.go, pkg/ingest/toc_builder.go, pkg/ingest/toc_split.go
TOCBuilder resolves a 20-page default, supports disabling with negative values, and splits qualifying leaves after end-page derivation. tocdump passes the configured threshold.
Sub-leaf discovery and capping
pkg/ingest/toc_split.go
The splitter uses nested contents pages or filtered heading lines. The Judge confirms candidates, and the implementation assigns spans, opening nodes, structures, and page-based caps.
Split behavior validation
pkg/ingest/toc_split_test.go, docs/evaluations/2026-09-19-leaf-granularity.md
Tests cover contents-based and heading-based splits, candidate filtering, repeated headings, page spans, and threshold or Judge gating. The evaluation reports median leaf counts of 69, 67, and 68 at thresholds 8, 12, and 20.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant tocdump
  participant TOCBuilder
  participant DocumentPages
  participant Judge
  tocdump->>TOCBuilder: configure SplitLeavesOver
  TOCBuilder->>DocumentPages: derive TOC leaf pages
  TOCBuilder->>Judge: confirm contents or heading candidates
  Judge-->>TOCBuilder: return candidate judgments
  TOCBuilder-->>tocdump: return sub-leaf TOC
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In `@docs/evaluations/2026-09-19-leaf-granularity.md`:
- Around line 36-39: Update the threshold-result summary to match the reported
values of 69, 67, and 68 leaves per filing for thresholds 8, 12, and 20,
respectively, and state the aggregation method if presenting a single summary
figure.

In `@pkg/ingest/toc_builder.go`:
- Line 286: The log message in the split-leaf reporting path should record the
resolved threshold actually used for splitting. Update the log.Printf call to
use the local over value instead of b.SplitLeavesOver, preserving the existing
message and counters.

In `@pkg/ingest/toc_split.go`:
- Around line 222-228: The heading-candidate flow currently stores only the
first occurrence in first[key], preventing Judge evaluation of later occurrences
that may begin the real subsection. Preserve every candidate occurrence for
Judge evaluation, use seenOnPages solely to filter running headers, and
deduplicate only the results accepted by Judge.
- Around line 349-361: Update the candidate selection flow around the sort and
seenPage deduplication to retain only the highest-confidence heading for each
StartPage before applying the max cap. After truncating to max candidates,
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