Faithfulness of imported protocols

2026.10.16-fidelite-import-protocoles · 2026-10-16

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Changes

• Tables in the document are now taken one at a time: a thermocycler program and a reaction mix described in the same section become two separate steps, each with its own table, instead of a single table for both.
• A reaction mix table gets a total volume column computed from the number of reactions, which recomputes when that number is changed before running the experiment.
• Variables proposed by Otto are normalised and their references follow the renaming, so the calculations actually run in the steps instead of staying inert text.
• The step calendar no longer goes backwards: days form an increasing sequence derived from the document.
• Parameterising a long protocol is now handled in batches of steps; beyond a certain length it previously returned nothing at all.

Known limitations

• Extraction is still done by a model: two imports of the same document can differ in the number of steps, in how they are split, and in how many tables get a computed total column.
• Checklists are still sometimes built from the sub-actions, even when the document states none.
• An already imported protocol is not revisited: it has to be imported again to benefit from these fixes.