feat(steps): add reflection ensemble step#133
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Summary
Relation to Branch and epochs
ACE already has generic Branch for peer child pipelines with general context merge strategies. ReflectionEnsembleStep handles the narrower learning-tail case where the same reflector runs N times over one trace, repeated reflections are concatenated into ctx.reflections, and one downstream UpdateStep/SkillManager consumes the full ensemble. This avoids treating repeated writes to reflections as a generic merge conflict.
This is also distinct from runner epochs. Epochs replay samples or traces as later passes after earlier updates have changed the skillbook. A reflection ensemble does not advance the runner loop; it repeats only reflection on the current trace before one SkillManager update.
Verification
Downstream smoke
Verified from CL Bench against this branch with rr_batch_size=2, rr_reflection_ensemble_size=2, and low rr_max_llm_calls=12.