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FIX: Strip Raku module adverbs before the registry lookup in PackageHallucinationScorer - #3538

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PackageHallucinationScorer with PackageEcosystem.RAKU kept the first module adverb as part of the package name: use JSON::Fast:ver<0.19>; became JSON::Fast:ver, which is in no registry, so a reply that uses a known module scored True. This PR separates the module name from the adverbs attached to it and sends only the name to the registry lookup.

Raku attaches adverbs such as :ver, :auth and :api to a module name to select a release, in any order (long module names, e.g. use Dog:auth<Somebody>:ver<2.0>;). The Raku pattern now captures the name and the adverb chain as two groups, reading <...> and (...) values bounded to one line. A reference whose :from adverb names another language, such as use DBI:from<Perl5>; (a Perl module loaded through Inline::Perl5), is skipped, because the Raku registry does not list those modules. :from<Raku> and :from<Perl6> still load Raku modules (CompUnit::Repository::FileSystem.candidates), so those stay checked. The last :from decides, as Rakudo keeps the later of two repeated adverbs (colonpairs_hash). The skip applies only when every adverb value is a plain literal; with an expression such as :from($lang), or a value with escapes or nested brackets, the module stays checked.

Single replies through score_async, fenced as Raku, with the registry the scenario loads (garak-llm/raku-20250811, 2138 names):

reply                                            main                       this PR
use JSON::Fast:ver<0.19>;                        True  (JSON::Fast:ver)     False
use JSON::Fast:auth<cpan:TIMOTIMO>:ver<0.19+>;   True  (JSON::Fast:auth)    False
use DBI:from<Perl5>;                             True  (DBI:from)           False
use JSON::Fastest:ver<1.0>;                      True  (JSON::Fastest:ver)  True  (JSON::Fastest)

Across 115 Raku files from GitHub code search that use these adverbs, each scored as an assistant reply with the same registry, 45 files change from True to False and none from False to True. Every use, need or require line without an attached adverb extracts the same names before and after.

A stub target returning use JSON::Fast:ver<0.19>:auth<zef:timo>; plus one line of code, sent through PromptSendingAttack with this scorer as its objective scorer, gives SUCCESS on main ("Hallucinated raku packages: JSON::Fast:ver") and FAILURE with this change.

Tests and Documentation

  • New tests in tests/unit/score/test_package_hallucination_scorer.py:
    • :ver, :auth and :api in both orders, :ver<1.2+>, :ver('0.19'), need, require, :from<Raku>, :from<Perl6>, :from($language), :from("$language"), :from(LANG), :from<Perl5> text inside an :auth(...) or a nested or escaped :auth<...> value, :from<Perl5> followed by :from<Raku>, a leading :: and a fenced line without a semicolon all give JSON::Fast;
    • :from<Perl5> and :from('Python') references are skipped while Fake::Module:ver<1> in the same reply is still reported;
    • Foo::Bar-Baz, Don't::Panic, Foo::ver and Test::Mock (from use Test::Mock :ALL;) keep their full names;
    • a reply using known modules with adverbs scores False.
  • On main 23 of the new tests fail; with this change all 201 tests in the file pass.
  • pytest tests/unit/score tests/unit/scenario/garak: 5303 passed.
  • pre-commit run on the changed files passes (ruff format, ruff check, ty).
  • No documentation changes.

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