Use when a debugging thread needs to be compressed into a reusable investigation ledger. Capture the target, evidence, attempted fixes, ruled-out hypotheses, viable hypotheses, and next experiments. Good triggers include "compact this debugging session", "summarize what we've tried", and "turn this into a debugging ledger".
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Does it follow best practices?
Impact
99%
3.66xAverage score across 8 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
{
"context": "Tests whether the agent correctly separates disproved hypotheses into a 'Ruled Out' section and still-viable hypotheses into a 'Still Plausible' section, rather than mixing them or losing the distinction.",
"type": "weighted_checklist",
"checklist": [
{
"name": "Ruled Out section present",
"description": "Output contains a '### Ruled Out' section",
"max_score": 10
},
{
"name": "Ruled Out correct content",
"description": "The Ruled Out section contains at least 3 of: clock skew (H1), Redis TTL (H3), DB connection pool interleaving (H6) — all of which were disproved",
"max_score": 15
},
{
"name": "Still Plausible section present",
"description": "Output contains a '### Still Plausible' section",
"max_score": 10
},
{
"name": "Still Plausible correct content",
"description": "The Still Plausible section includes at least 2 of: Kafka consumer rebalancing (H2), redlock race condition (H4), network partition (H5) — hypotheses not yet ruled out",
"max_score": 15
},
{
"name": "No hypothesis mixing",
"description": "Hypotheses that are ruled out do NOT appear under Still Plausible, and vice versa — the two sections contain different hypotheses",
"max_score": 10
},
{
"name": "Debug Target section",
"description": "Output contains a '### Debug Target' section with a one-sentence description of the problem",
"max_score": 8
},
{
"name": "Evidence section",
"description": "Output contains an '### Evidence' section as a bullet list including key facts (e.g. duplicate rate, debit-only pattern, rebalancing correlation)",
"max_score": 8
},
{
"name": "Attempts section",
"description": "Output contains an '### Attempts' section where each attempt has a worked/failed/inconclusive label",
"max_score": 8
},
{
"name": "Next Experiments present",
"description": "Output contains a '### Next Experiments' section with 1-3 items",
"max_score": 8
},
{
"name": "Output saved to file",
"description": "A file named handoff.md exists in the workspace",
"max_score": 8
}
]
}evals
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skills
compact-debug-ledger