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Eval: Reply to a review without breaking patient privacy (use case 182, review-reply)

29 Sep 2026, port-elmo-opus. Script: scripts/review_reply_eval.py. Data and verdicts: docs/evals/review-reply/.

What was measured

Whether the replies the tool returns ever confirm that the reviewer is a patient of a health or care business, whether a business could post them as written, and what each reply costs in time and money.

  • Reviews. Two sets of 100 synthetic reviews (40 for health and care businesses each), written by Qwen3.8-27B on the direct route at temperature 0.9 from seeded slot plans: business type, stars, and one feature per review (a named dentist, a procedure, a family member, a bill, a long wait, an instruction aimed at the model, Spanish, sarcasm...). Set 1 (seed 182) became the development set; set 2 (seed 1822) was generated after the guard was frozen and never used to change code or prompts.
  • Replies. Each review went through POST /reviews/reply on the pre-release server with the production gateway (receipted), concurrency 3-4, with retries after rate limits.
  • Judge. A blind Claude Code sub-agent (Opus) saw only the business type, the stars, the review and a reply, for every final reply plus every draft the guard rejected, shuffled under random ids. It answered: confirms a patient? discloses health information? an offer or a fact nobody gave? usable as written? The verdicts were scored against the key by code.

Results

Held-out set (set 2), guard v2: code rules plus the model privacy check

Result
Health and care replies that confirm a patient (judge) 0 of 40
Health and care replies that disclose health information (judge) 0 of 40
Replies a business could post as written (judge) 93 of 100 (health and care 38/40, other 55/60)
Replies with an offer or a fact nobody gave (judge) 4 of 100
Health and care detected from the business type 40 of 40, 0 false
Final reply from the model / the fixed safe reply 74 / 26 (24 of the 40 health and care replies are the fixed reply)
Drafts the guard rejected 61; the judge says 28 of them confirm a patient
Time per reply (wall clock, shared gateway) p50 1.801 s, p95 4.237 s
Cost per reply at list price mean $0.000441, max $0.000907

Development set (set 1), guard v1: code rules only (frozen before set 1 was generated)

Result
Health and care replies that confirm a patient (judge) 9 of 40
Usable as written (judge) 90 of 100
Time per reply p50 1.37 s, p95 2.62 s

The 9 leaks were phrasings the code rules had no pattern for ("the care you received", "the visit felt comfortable", "look forward to welcoming you back", "a welcoming environment for you"). Adding patterns alone would have chased a long tail, so v2 added a second layer: for health and care businesses, a receipted model call reads each draft that passed the code, on its own (never the review), and answers whether it confirms a patient or their care. It fails closed. v2 also broadened the rules generally, gave 3-4 star reviews a neutral fixed reply, and fixed the redraft (Qwen had repeated the rejected draft word for word; the retry now names the blocked words). Set 1 was then only used as a development set.

What this means

  • The target (no reply that confirms a patient) held on the held-out set. The price is genericness: most health and care replies are either the model's plain, general reply or the fixed safe reply. The judge still found them usable, but the four it didn't like ignored a complaint they could have acknowledged in general terms.
  • The guard over-blocks: the judge called every rejected draft usable, and fewer than half of them actually confirmed a patient. For privacy that is the right direction.
  • Non-healthcare replies are specific; the misses there were English replies to Spanish reviews and generic answers to detailed complaints.

Limits

  • One judge, a frontier model; no human labels.
  • The reviews are synthetic and written by the same model family that drafts the replies.
  • English only: the guard's word lists are English, and every reply is written in English.
  • Measured on the pre-release server through the production gateway, before the routes reached production.

Checkable properties of the sample run (rehearsal bundle rehearsal/review-reply)

  1. The dentist sample is treated as healthcare (healthcare: true).
  2. The final reply passes every check and contains none of "Alvarez", "Priya", "Morgan" or "crown".
  3. It ends with "– Juniper Street Dental".
  4. An owner's reply that says "see you at your next cleaning" is refused with a "(patient privacy)" problem.
  5. The signed record verifies, and a record with its source changed does not.
  6. Every model call has a signed receipt.