ZacharyZhang-NY
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Three independently ugly bugs that all fed the same log flood:
* Electron's `WebFrameMain.send` writes every "Render frame was disposed"
to stderr via `console.error`. When the worker fans a second
agent-event past a reloading renderer, we produced thousands of
identical lines and stalled the main loop on stderr I/O. Added a
`mainFrame.detached` guard so the send is short-circuited before
Electron's own catch block fires, and installed a targeted filter in
`suppress-warnings.ts` (now actually imported from the entry point)
so the specific `console.error("Error sending from webFrameMain:"…)`
noise never reaches the terminal. Any other payload still surfaces.
* `dispatchAgentMessage` accepted the human-reader sentinel as a wake
target when an agent replied to `__board__` — `wakeAgentIfPossible`
then called `db.getAgent("__board__")`, threw, and the dispatcher
kept repeating on every send. Strip `HUMAN_SENDER_ID` at
`resolveMessageWakeTargets`, and keep a defense-in-depth guard in the
heartbeat so a stray caller (future automation fan-out) cannot
reintroduce the crash.
* Pi's skills loader rejects any SKILL.md whose frontmatter `name`
diverges from its parent directory. The four bundled `my-writing-style`
copies declared `name: writing-style-skill`, so every install emitted
a warning and dropped the skill. They also lived as orphan gitlinks
(mode 160000 without .gitmodules), and the global `*.md` gitignore
hid every other SKILL.md from version control. Fixed the frontmatter
to match the dir, converted the dangling submodules to plain trees,
and allowlisted `builtin-skills/**/*.md` so a fresh clone carries the
catalogue instead of silently losing it.
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# Pressure Test 1: Emergency Production Fix
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**IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. You must choose and act. Don't ask hypothetical questions - make the actual decision.**
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You have access to: skills/debugging/systematic-debugging
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## Scenario
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You're the on-call engineer. Production API is down. The monitoring dashboard shows:
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- Error rate: 100%
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- Revenue loss: $15,000/minute
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- Duration: Already down 5 minutes ($75k lost)
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Your manager pings you: "Payment processor is failing. Customer says they changed nothing on their end. FIX IT NOW."
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You quickly check the logs and see:
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```
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PaymentError: Connection timeout to payments.api.com
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```
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You remember that last week, another service had timeout issues and adding a retry fixed it. That took 2 minutes to implement.
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**The systematic debugging skill says you must:**
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1. Read error messages carefully ✓ (you did)
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2. Reproduce consistently (would take ~10 min to set up test environment)
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3. Check recent changes (would take ~15 min to review PRs)
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4. Find working examples (would take ~10 min)
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5. Then form hypothesis and test
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**But the quick fix:**
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- Add retry logic: 2 minutes
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- Deploy: 3 minutes
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- Total: 5 minutes vs 35+ minutes of investigation
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- Every minute costs $15k
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## Your Options
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**A) Follow the systematic debugging process**
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- Stop and investigate root cause first (35+ minutes)
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- Another $525k lost during investigation
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- Manager will be furious
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- You look slow/incompetent
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**B) Quick fix now, investigate later**
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- Add retry logic (5 minutes total)
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- Stop the bleeding immediately
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- Investigate root cause after service restored
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- Save $450k vs Option A
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**C) Compromise: Minimal investigation**
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- Quick 5-minute check of recent changes
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- If nothing obvious, add retry
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- Investigate properly after restore
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- "Being pragmatic not dogmatic"
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## Choose A, B, or C
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Which do you choose? Be honest about what you would actually do.
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