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tasks/adfailure-00-lag0m-avail15m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 04:05 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:50 UTC:
+
+Pages that include advertisements fail to load and show a 5xx/“Service unavailable” style error
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/adfailure-00-lag0m-avail15m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/adfailure-01-lag0m-avail15m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 04:05 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:50 UTC:
+
+Homepage or product listing pages hang for a long time (spinners/timeouts) while the site waits for the Ad service
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/adfailure-01-lag0m-avail15m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/adfailure-01-lag0m-avail5m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/adfailure-04-lag0m-avail0m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 03:50 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:50 UTC:
+
+Overall site responsiveness degrades (slower navigation and delayed page rendering) due to repeated Ad-service call failures/retries
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/adfailure-04-lag0m-avail0m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/adfailure-04-lag0m-avail5m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 03:55 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:50 UTC:
+
+Overall site responsiveness degrades (slower navigation and delayed page rendering) due to repeated Ad-service call failures/retries
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/adfailure-04-lag0m-avail5m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/adhighcpu-00-lag0m-avail0m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 03:04 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:04 UTC:
+
+Pages (home/product/category) load noticeably slower because the frontend waits on the Ad service
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/adhighcpu-00-lag0m-avail0m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/adhighcpu-03-lag0m-avail15m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 03:19 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:04 UTC:
+
+Occasional page-render errors where parts of the UI don’t populate until a refresh (or only load after multiple retries)
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/adhighcpu-03-lag0m-avail15m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/admanualgc-00-lag0m-avail5m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 03:24 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:19 UTC:
+
+Slow loading of pages that request ads (homepage/category/product pages), with noticeable lag before the page finishes rendering
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/admanualgc-00-lag0m-avail5m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/admanualgc-01-lag0m-avail0m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 03:19 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:19 UTC:
+
+Intermittent “failed to load”/timeout behavior on pages that depend on the Ad service, especially under load
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/admanualgc-01-lag0m-avail0m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/admanualgc-02-lag0m-avail15m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 03:34 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:19 UTC:
+
+Ad sections on pages rendering empty, showing placeholders, or missing personalized/sponsored content
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/admanualgc-02-lag0m-avail15m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/admanualgc-03-lag0m-avail5m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 18, 2026 at 03:24 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 18, 2026 at 03:19 UTC:
+
+Occasional 5xx/“Service Unavailable” errors when the Ad service stalls during long garbage-collection pauses
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/admanualgc-03-lag0m-avail5m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/cartfailure-00-lag0m-avail0m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC:
+
+Add-to-cart clicks fail or show an error message
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/cartfailure-00-lag0m-avail0m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/cartfailure-01-lag0m-avail5m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 19, 2026 at 00:25 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC:
+
+Cart page fails to load (blank page, spinner forever, or “Something went wrong”)
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/cartfailure-01-lag0m-avail5m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/cartfailure-02-lag0m-avail15m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 19, 2026 at 00:35 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC:
+
+Items intermittently disappear from the cart or the cart appears empty after refresh
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/cartfailure-02-lag0m-avail15m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/cartfailure-03-lag0m-avail0m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC:
+
+Quantity updates (increase/decrease) don’t apply, revert, or return errors
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/cartfailure-03-lag0m-avail0m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/cartfailure-03-lag0m-avail5m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 19, 2026 at 00:25 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC:
+
+Quantity updates (increase/decrease) don’t apply, revert, or return errors
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/cartfailure-03-lag0m-avail5m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/cartfailure-04-lag0m-avail5m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 19, 2026 at 00:25 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC:
+
+Remove-item actions fail, leaving items stuck in the cart
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/cartfailure-04-lag0m-avail5m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/cartfailure-06-lag0m-avail0m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC:
+
+Checkout cannot start because the cart cannot be retrieved (“Unable to fetch cart” / 5xx error)
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/cartfailure-06-lag0m-avail0m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/cartfailure-07-lag0m-avail15m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 19, 2026 at 00:35 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC:
+
+Checkout fails mid-flow when validating cart contents (out-of-sync cart, “cart not found”, or “failed to reserve items”)
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/cartfailure-07-lag0m-avail15m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/cartfailure-08-lag0m-avail0m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 19, 2026 at 00:20 UTC:
+
+Severe slowness/timeouts when viewing or modifying the cart, especially during peak traffic
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/cartfailure-08-lag0m-avail0m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/imageslowload-00-lag0m-avail0m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 17, 2026 at 14:17 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 17, 2026 at 14:17 UTC:
+
+Pages (home/product listing/product detail) take noticeably longer to finish loading, especially during busy “morning rush” periods
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/imageslowload-00-lag0m-avail0m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/imageslowload-00-lag0m-avail5m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 17, 2026 at 14:22 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 17, 2026 at 14:17 UTC:
+
+Pages (home/product listing/product detail) take noticeably longer to finish loading, especially during busy “morning rush” periods
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/imageslowload-00-lag0m-avail5m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/imageslowload-01-lag0m-avail5m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 17, 2026 at 14:22 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 17, 2026 at 14:17 UTC:
+
+Product images and thumbnails load very slowly, appearing late after the rest of the page renders
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/imageslowload-01-lag0m-avail5m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/imageslowload-02-lag0m-avail15m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 17, 2026 at 14:32 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 17, 2026 at 14:17 UTC:
+
+Image placeholders/spinners remain on screen for a long time before images appear
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/imageslowload-02-lag0m-avail15m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/imageslowload-03-lag0m-avail15m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 17, 2026 at 14:32 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 17, 2026 at 14:17 UTC:
+
+Some images intermittently fail to load (broken/missing images) when requests time out or are retried
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```

tasks/imageslowload-03-lag0m-avail15m/task.toml

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+version = "0.0"
+
+[metadata]
+author_name = "Albert Gong"
+author_email = "agong@cs.cornell.edu"
+difficulty = "hard"
+category = "sre"
+tags = ["root cause analysis", "telemetry"]
+
+[verifier]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[agent]
+timeout_sec = 1200.0
+
+[environment]
+cpus = 4
+memory_mb = 12288
+storage_mb = 4096

tasks/imageslowload-03-lag0m-avail5m/instruction.md

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+# Root Cause Analysis
+
+You are an expert site reliability engineer. The current time is Feb 17, 2026 at 14:22 UTC.
+
+## Task Description
+
+The following issue was reported at Feb 17, 2026 at 14:17 UTC:
+
+Some images intermittently fail to load (broken/missing images) when requests time out or are retried
+
+## Source Code
+
+The source code for the system is available at `/app/opentelemetry-demo`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Please follow these steps:
+- Make your best guess at the root cause issue based on the collected evidence.
+- Write your output to `/app/predictions.json`. The JSON output must follow the schema below:
+
+```json
+{
+  "flag": "..." // root cause issue
+  "evidence": "..." // metrics, logs, and traces
+}
+```