@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import Any
 
+import httpx
 from gooddata_sdk import GoodDataSdk
 
 from gooddata_eval.core.agentic._catalog import AnomalyDetectionGranularity, CatalogMetricAlert
@@ -54,6 +55,11 @@
 
 _TRIGGER_DISPLAY_TO_API = {"Every time": "ALWAYS", "One time": "ONCE"}
 _ALWAYS_TRIGGER_VALUES = {"Every time", "ALWAYS", "not specified"}
+_RELATIVE_OPERATORS = ("INCREASES_BY", "DECREASES_BY", "CHANGES_BY")
+
+# Expected-recipient spellings that mean the owner of the API token.
+_CURRENT_USER_RECIPIENT = "me"
+_CURRENT_USER_MARKERS = {"me", "myself", "current user", "current_user"}
 
 _TRIGGER_INSTRUCTIONS = {
     "ALWAYS": (
@@ -242,9 +248,9 @@ def _resolve_internal_recipient_ids(sdk: GoodDataSdk, emails: list[str]) -> set[
     `create_metric_alert` then addresses the alert by internal user id
     (`internal_recipients`), never by email, so an expected email has to be
     resolved before it can be compared against that field. Failures (no
-    matching user, no permission, network error) are swallowed: the caller
-    treats an empty result the same as "this delivery path doesn't match",
-    which is correct -- it doesn't mean the alert itself failed.
+    matching user, no permission, network error) are logged and return an
+    empty set: the caller treats that the same as "this delivery path doesn't
+    match", which is correct -- it doesn't mean the alert itself failed.
     """
     if not emails:
         return set()
@@ -254,12 +260,40 @@ def _resolve_internal_recipient_ids(sdk: GoodDataSdk, emails: list[str]) -> set[
         escaped = [email.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("'", "\\'") for email in emails]
         quoted = ",".join(f"'{email}'" for email in escaped)
         resp = sdk._client.entities_api.get_all_entities_users(filter=f"email=in=({quoted})")
-        return {u.id for u in (resp.data or [])}
-    except Exception:
+        ids = {u.id for u in (resp.data or [])}
+    except Exception as exc:
+        print(f"[RECIPIENTS] Looking up users by email {emails} failed: {exc}")
         return set()
+    if not ids:
+        print(f"[RECIPIENTS] No user has an email in {emails}; internal recipients cannot match them.")
+    return ids
+
+
+def _resolve_current_user_id(host: str, token: str) -> str | None:
+    """Id of the user that owns ``token``, or None if the profile cannot be read.
+
+    The current user is matched by id, not email: that user may have no email at all.
+    """
+    try:
+        resp = httpx.get(
+            f"{host.rstrip('/')}/api/v1/profile",
+            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"},
+            timeout=30.0,
+        )
+        resp.raise_for_status()
+        user_id = resp.json().get("userId")
+    except Exception as exc:
+        print(f"[RECIPIENTS] Resolving the current user failed: {exc}")
+        return None
+    return user_id if isinstance(user_id, str) and user_id else None
 
 
-def _check_recipients(expected: CatalogMetricAlert, actual_args: dict, sdk: GoodDataSdk | None = None) -> bool:
+def _check_recipients(
+    expected: CatalogMetricAlert,
+    actual_args: dict,
+    sdk: GoodDataSdk | None = None,
+    current_user_id: str | None = None,
+) -> bool:
     if not expected.recipients:
         return True
     act_recip_raw = actual_args.get("recipients", actual_args.get("external_recipients"))
@@ -274,8 +308,6 @@ def _check_recipients(expected: CatalogMetricAlert, actual_args: dict, sdk: Good
         act_recip = act_recip_raw
     else:
         act_recip = []
-    if set(expected.recipients) == set(act_recip or []):
-        return True
     act_internal_raw = actual_args.get("internal_recipients")
     # internal_recipients is declared `anyOf: [array of string, string, null]` in the
     # create_metric_alert tool schema -- a single id as a bare string is schema-legal,
@@ -287,8 +319,17 @@ def _check_recipients(expected: CatalogMetricAlert, actual_args: dict, sdk: Good
         act_internal = act_internal_raw
     else:
         act_internal = []
+    expected_emails = [r for r in expected.recipients if r != _CURRENT_USER_RECIPIENT]
+    if _CURRENT_USER_RECIPIENT in expected.recipients:
+        if current_user_id is None or current_user_id not in act_internal:
+            return False
+        act_internal = [i for i in act_internal if i != current_user_id]
+        if not expected_emails:
+            return not act_internal and not act_recip
+    if set(expected_emails) == set(act_recip or []):
+        return True
     if sdk is not None and act_internal:
-        internal_recipient_ids = _resolve_internal_recipient_ids(sdk, expected.recipients)
+        internal_recipient_ids = _resolve_internal_recipient_ids(sdk, expected_emails)
         if internal_recipient_ids & set(act_internal):
             return True
     return False
@@ -299,13 +340,16 @@ def generate_simulated_alert_response(
     expected: CatalogMetricAlert,
     conversation_history: list,
     question: str = "",
+    current_user_id: str | None = None,
 ) -> str:
     """Stateful sim-user reply for alert-skill conversation (gpt-4o).
 
     ``question`` is the fixture's original request. The sim-user is first called with an empty
     history — the opening question went straight to the agent, never to the sim-user — so
     without it rule 5's "the filters your original request implies" refers to text the model
     cannot see. Optional (defaults to "") to keep the signature backwards compatible.
+
+    ``current_user_id`` lets the sim-user recognise itself as the recipient of a "me" alert.
     """
     if _OpenAI is None:
         raise RuntimeError(
@@ -333,7 +377,31 @@ def generate_simulated_alert_response(
         threshold = expected.threshold
     else:
         threshold = "not specified"
-    recipients = ", ".join(expected.recipients) if expected.recipients else "not specified"
+    wants_current_user = _CURRENT_USER_RECIPIENT in expected.recipients
+    emails = [r for r in expected.recipients if r != _CURRENT_USER_RECIPIENT]
+    recipient_names = list(emails)
+    if wants_current_user:
+        user_id_note = f", user id {current_user_id}" if current_user_id else ""
+        recipient_names.insert(0, f"me (yourself, the current user{user_id_note})")
+    recipients = ", ".join(recipient_names) if recipient_names else "not specified"
+    if wants_current_user and not emails:
+        # An email given here would make the agent send the alert to it instead of the current user.
+        recipients_rule = (
+            "4. The alert is for you yourself. Never give an email address and never ask for one to "
+            "be added. A proposal whose recipient is you — shown as 'You', the current user or your "
+            "own user id — has the correct recipient.\n"
+        )
+    elif wants_current_user:
+        recipients_rule = (
+            f"4. Proactively state the email recipients in your first reply: {', '.join(emails)}, "
+            "and say the alert should also go to you yourself. A recipient shown as 'You', the "
+            "current user or your own user id is you.\n"
+        )
+    else:
+        recipients_rule = (
+            "4. Proactively include your email recipient in your first reply. "
+            "   Do not wait for the agent to ask — state it alongside the metric and condition answers.\n"
+        )
     trigger = expected.trigger
     filters = expected.filters
 
@@ -378,14 +446,25 @@ def generate_simulated_alert_response(
         # and scoring an item against an interval it never asked for is the defect this rule
         # exists to undo.
         granularity = (expected.granularity or AnomalyDetectionGranularity.DAY).value
-        anomaly_rule = (
+        period_rule = (
             "7. This is an ANOMALY alert. Anomaly detection REQUIRES a time granularity, and that "
             f"granularity is NOT a date filter. State it in your first reply and repeat it whenever "
             f"asked: use {granularity} granularity. Rule 5 constrains filters on the metric only — it "
             "never applies to this detection interval, so never refuse to give one.\n"
         )
+    elif operator in _RELATIVE_OPERATORS:
+        # The item names no comparison date or period; delegating is an answer the agent accepts,
+        # refusing loops until the turn budget runs out.
+        period_rule = (
+            "7. This is a period-over-period comparison alert. To define 'the previous period' the "
+            "agent needs a comparison date and a period length (day, week, month, quarter or year), "
+            "and those are NOT a date filter. Rule 5 constrains filters on the metric only — it never "
+            "applies to the comparison. If the agent asks which date or which period the comparison "
+            "should use, do not refuse and do not name one yourself: hand the choice back, for "
+            "example 'Pick whichever date and period fit best.'\n"
+        )
     else:
-        anomaly_rule = (
+        period_rule = (
             "7. Do not invent an evaluation period, a granularity or an 'evaluate each run on a X "
             "basis' instruction your goal never asked for.\n"
         )
@@ -409,11 +488,10 @@ def generate_simulated_alert_response(
         "   when every one of those fields matches your goal.\n"
         "   A field your goal reports as 'not specified' is one you have NO expectation about: "
         "   accept whatever the agent chose for it and never ask for it to be removed.\n"
-        "4. Proactively include your email recipient in your first reply. "
-        "   Do not wait for the agent to ask — state it alongside the metric and condition answers.\n"
+        + recipients_rule
         + filters_rule
         + f"6. Proactively state how often you want to be alerted in your first reply: {trigger_request}. "
-        "   Repeat it if the agent proposes a different cadence.\n" + anomaly_rule + "Reply concisely and directly."
+        "   Repeat it if the agent proposes a different cadence.\n" + period_rule + "Reply concisely and directly."
     )
 
     messages: list = [{"role": "system", "content": system_prompt}]
@@ -590,6 +668,7 @@ def _normalize_expected_output(expected: dict) -> CatalogMetricAlert:
         recipients = [r.strip() for r in raw_recip.replace(";", ",").split(",") if r.strip()]
     else:
         recipients = list(raw_recip)
+    recipients = [_CURRENT_USER_RECIPIENT if str(r).strip().lower() in _CURRENT_USER_MARKERS else r for r in recipients]
 
     filters = _normalize_expected_filters(expected)
     attributes = _normalize_expected_attributes(expected)
@@ -675,6 +754,7 @@ def run_agentic_alert_skill(
         user_context=user_context,
     )
     sdk = GoodDataSdk.create(host, token)
+    current_user_id = _resolve_current_user_id(host, token) if _CURRENT_USER_RECIPIENT in expected.recipients else None
 
     def _run_once(conv_id: str) -> AlertRunResult:
         alert_id_to_delete: str | None = None
@@ -761,7 +841,11 @@ def _run_once(conv_id: str) -> AlertRunResult:
                 # exit reason to classify the run as an error rather than an agent failure.
                 try:
                     follow_up = generate_simulated_alert_response(
-                        response_text, expected, conversation_history, question=question
+                        response_text,
+                        expected,
+                        conversation_history,
+                        question=question,
+                        current_user_id=current_user_id,
                     )
                 except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 -- harness-side fault; end only this run
                     print(f"[SIM-USER] Simulated reply failed for conversation {conv_id}: {exc}")
@@ -779,7 +863,8 @@ def _run_once(conv_id: str) -> AlertRunResult:
                 trigger_correct=tool_called and _check_trigger(expected, actual_args),
                 filters_correct=tool_called and _check_filters(expected, actual_args),
                 metric_correct=tool_called and _check_metric(expected, actual_args),
-                recipients_correct=tool_called and _check_recipients(expected, actual_args, sdk=sdk),
+                recipients_correct=tool_called
+                and _check_recipients(expected, actual_args, sdk=sdk, current_user_id=current_user_id),
                 attributes_correct=tool_called and _check_attributes(expected, actual_args),
                 granularity_correct=tool_called and _check_granularity(expected, actual_args),
             )