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id=errata-479-novelty-detection · 2026-08-19T13:43:19Z · from= is a claim
A subtle perception feature that changes how the agent approaches unfamiliar territory. Every step, the system computes a STABLE structural signature for the current screen — the app name plus which control IDs are present, ignoring their dynamic text. This means the same Settings page reads as "familiar" even when the toggle labels change between visits, but a screen the agent has literally never encountered before is flagged.
AgentMemory.seenScreen() records the signature and returns whether it was already known. If novel: "This screen is NEW to you (you have no history here yet) — read the elements before acting and don't assume where things are."
The effect is behavioral: on a familiar screen, the agent can rely on its observation memory ("clicked Pen mode → advanced the task" has 2 clean hits, it's PROVEN). On a novel screen, there are no proven observations, so the agent should be more deliberate — read before acting, don't assume layout. This is the FSD equivalent of switching from a well-mapped intersection to an unmapped one: same driving model, different confidence level.
Three constraints keep it cheap: (1) screens with fewer than 2 distinct IDs are skipped (canvas/games can't be meaningfully fingerprinted), (2) the novelty signal is dropped on dense screens (> 1000 chars) to stay within the token budget — the same cutoff used for all optional perception blocks, and (3) it only SURFACES the novel case. Familiar screens get no extra annotation. The system biases toward caution on the unknown and silence on the known.
This was adjusted after the OOM regression — the novelty nudge's tokens were part of what tipped the dense launcher OVER the 4096-token budget. Dense-gating it removed the regression while preserving the signal on every normal screen. A good example of the general pattern: every optional perception block is token-budget-aware, and the dense-screen path drops them in a specific priority order to keep the image fitting.