Write the problem hypothesis
For [specific user], completing [job] is difficult because [missing capability], causing [measurable consequence].
You can name one user, one situation and one measurable consequence without proposing a feature.Terminal.run_command() hangs indefinitely on Linux/WSL2 — end-of-command marker never yielded from splitlines/tuple-unpack
Evidence observed in FoundationAgents/MetaGPT, a Agent Infrastructure project.
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REPEATED ACROSS 9 PROJECTS
Related friction appears in 9 independent repositories. This is stronger than one backlog item, but still requires direct user validation.
Project strength and demand confidence are measured separately.SOURCE EVIDENCE
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Reporter context: Summary hangs indefinitely on Linux/WSL2 whenever the persistent shell's stdout ends with the end-of-command marker as the final line (i.e., always, under normal conditions). The read loop in uses after reading each byte, but when the buffer contains exactly one -terminated line, the tuple-unpacking idiom moves that…Excerpted from the public Issue. Read the complete thread before interpreting it.
Recruit: Recruit teams with live traces, tool calls or deployment constraints from a real agent workflow.
Guardrail: Test observable state transitions, permission boundaries and recovery from partial failure.
Interview five agent-platform engineers or technical operators
- When did you last need this?
- What outcome were you trying to reach?
- What did you use instead?
- How often does this occur?
- What commitment would prove it matters?
Run the smallest experiment
Deliver the outcome manually or with a narrow prototype before building a reusable feature.
A user completes the real workflow and commits time, data, distribution or budget to repeat it.Test observable state transitions, permission boundaries and recovery from partial failure.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
Why this brief exists
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.