Evidence observed in google-gemini/gemini-cli, a Coding project.
Related friction appears in 4 independent repositories. This is stronger than one backlog item, but still requires direct user validation.
Project strength and demand confidence are measured separately.Reporter context: What would you like to be added? The ability to manually trigger skill activation, e.g. by typing . Why is this needed? Occasionally, I'll work on a task for which I know an installed skill is relevant, but the agent won't reliably activate the skill in response to my prompt (despite my best efforts to prompt engineer…Excerpted from the public Issue. Read the complete thread before interpreting it.
Recruit: Recruit contributors who can replay the problem in a representative repository and development environment.
Guardrail: Use a fixed test case and compare completion, regressions and recovery against the unchanged baseline.
For [builder], the agent cannot reliably [select, add, call or remove a tool] during [workflow], causing [manual intervention or failed work].
You can name one user, one situation and one measurable consequence without proposing a feature.Implement or simulate one tool lifecycle operation with explicit inputs, outputs and failure handling, then replay three real calls.
Three representative calls complete with the expected state transition and an observable recovery path.Use a fixed test case and compare completion, regressions and recovery against the unchanged baseline.Information has value only when it changes action. This page turns one public signal into a bounded validation exercise. It is a research aid, not proof of demand, investment advice or a product recommendation.