Write the problem hypothesis
For [operator], the workflow fails during [condition], forcing [recovery work] and costing [time, money or trust].
You can name one user, one situation and one measurable consequence without proposing a feature.feat: pull / work-stealing coordination (push→pull dispatch)
Evidence observed in Abilityai/trinity, a Coding project.
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SOURCE EVIDENCE
Read original GitHub Issue ↗Start with what users actually said
Reporter context: Summary Migrate agent coordination from push (backend dispatches into a per-agent mailbox) to pull / work-stealing : the backend owns one durable per-agent queue ( rows, status ); each agent's worker pool pulls the next task only when it has a free worker, runs it, and reports the result back. A busy or dead agent…Excerpted from the public Issue. Read the complete thread before interpreting it.
Interview five affected users
- Show me the last failure and its logs.
- What triggered it and how often does it recur?
- How do you detect it today?
- What does recovery require?
- What would a safe failure look like?
Run the smallest experiment
Add one narrow guardrail, retry or recovery path around the failing step. Replay three real failure cases and compare recovery time.
The same failure is recovered faster in three real cases without creating a new incident.Make a build decision
- Build: repeated pain and active commitment
- Narrow: pain is real but the audience or job differs
- Stop: weak frequency or no behavioral proof
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