{"episode_id": "05d44a85-10db-4a83-89f6-eb38f5553617", "scenario_id": "auth_token_expiry", "template_id": "auth_token_expiry", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 0, "difficulty": "medium", "final_score": 0.9329, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.3292, "final_score": 0.9329, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] api-gateway: Gateway returning 503 on /v1/profile and /v1/billing endpoints (~27% error rate).\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker /v1/identity calls returning 401 from auth provider (~34% rate).\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.0 mem=38.0 err=27.0 latency=220.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=31.0 mem=38.0 err=34.0 latency=95.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.24-identity-fix 25 hours ago (hardcoded short-lived service-account JWT instead of using rotating secret store; expired 12 minutes ago).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.0 mem=38.0 err=27.0 latency=220.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=31.0 mem=38.0 err=34.0 latency=95.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'auth.provider returned 401 \u2014 token expired at 2026-04-25T12:00:00Z'. Token was hardcoded by worker@2026.04.24-identity-fix from yesterday; expiry was 24h.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.0 mem=38.0 err=27.0 latency=220.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=31.0 mem=38.0 err=34.0 latency=95.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker /v1/identity error rate 34% \u2014 every error is a 401 from the auth provider, none from worker logic.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.0 mem=38.0 err=27.0 latency=220.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=31.0 mem=38.0 err=34.0 latency=95.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"api-gateway\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "api-gateway", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Gateway 503 rate at 27% \u2014 concentrated exclusively on identity-touching endpoints.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.0 mem=38.0 err=27.0 latency=220.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=31.0 mem=38.0 err=34.0 latency=95.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for api-gateway.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"credential_rotation_breakage\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.9,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "credential_rotation_breakage", "affected_services": ["worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.9, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.0 mem=38.0 err=27.0 latency=220.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=31.0 mem=38.0 err=34.0 latency=95.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.3695, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.0 mem=38.0 err=27.0 latency=220.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=34.0 err=1.0 latency=38.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.18\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.22\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.157, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=30.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=0.0 latency=32.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: worker restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=30.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=0.0 latency=32.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=30.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=0.0 latency=32.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.922963+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
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Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] api-gateway: Gateway returning 503 on /v1/profile and /v1/billing endpoints (~27% error rate).\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker /v1/identity calls returning 401 from auth provider (~34% rate).\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.7 mem=41.0 err=27.1 latency=221.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: degraded cpu=32.4 mem=35.7 err=31.4 latency=96.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.24-wor11 25 hours ago (hardcoded short-lived service-account JWT instead of using rotating secret store; expired 14 minutes ago).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.7 mem=37.1 err=26.2 latency=206.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: degraded cpu=32.7 mem=37.6 err=31.5 latency=90.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'auth.provider returned 401 \u2014 token expired at 2026-04-25T12:00:00Z'. Token was hardcoded by worker@2026.04.24-identity-fix from yesterday; expiry was 24h.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.7 mem=37.1 err=26.2 latency=206.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: degraded cpu=32.7 mem=37.6 err=31.5 latency=90.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker /v1/identity error rate 34% \u2014 every error is a 401 from the auth provider, none from worker logic.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.7 mem=37.1 err=26.2 latency=206.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: degraded cpu=32.7 mem=37.6 err=31.5 latency=90.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"api-gateway\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "api-gateway", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Gateway 503 rate at 27% \u2014 concentrated exclusively on identity-touching endpoints.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.7 mem=37.1 err=26.2 latency=206.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: degraded cpu=32.7 mem=37.6 err=31.5 latency=90.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for api-gateway.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"credential_rotation_breakage\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.9,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "credential_rotation_breakage", "affected_services": ["worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.9, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.7 mem=37.1 err=26.2 latency=206.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: degraded cpu=32.7 mem=37.6 err=31.5 latency=90.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.3695, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.7 mem=37.1 err=26.2 latency=206.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=30.0 mem=34.3 err=1.0 latency=38.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.18\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.22\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.157, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=25.3 mem=28.3 err=0.0 latency=29.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.5 mem=33.3 err=0.0 latency=30.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: worker restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=25.3 mem=28.3 err=0.0 latency=29.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.5 mem=33.3 err=0.0 latency=30.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=25.3 mem=28.3 err=0.0 latency=29.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.2 mem=22.4 err=0.0 latency=13.6\n- database: healthy cpu=24.5 mem=33.1 err=1.0 latency=21.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.5 mem=33.3 err=0.0 latency=30.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.924522+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
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Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] api-gateway: Gateway returning 503 on /v1/profile and /v1/billing endpoints (~27% error rate).\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker /v1/identity calls returning 401 from auth provider (~34% rate).\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.8 mem=38.8 err=27.9 latency=213.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.9 mem=38.4 err=35.2 latency=89.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.24-wor52 25 hours ago (hardcoded short-lived service-account JWT instead of using rotating secret store; expired 15 minutes ago).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.5 mem=40.8 err=27.4 latency=229.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=33.2 mem=36.6 err=33.1 latency=92.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'auth.provider returned 401 \u2014 token expired at 2026-04-25T12:00:00Z'. Token was hardcoded by worker@2026.04.24-identity-fix from yesterday; expiry was 24h.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.5 mem=40.8 err=27.4 latency=229.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=33.2 mem=36.6 err=33.1 latency=92.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker /v1/identity error rate 34% \u2014 every error is a 401 from the auth provider, none from worker logic.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.5 mem=40.8 err=27.4 latency=229.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=33.2 mem=36.6 err=33.1 latency=92.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"api-gateway\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "api-gateway", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Gateway 503 rate at 27% \u2014 concentrated exclusively on identity-touching endpoints.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.5 mem=40.8 err=27.4 latency=229.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=33.2 mem=36.6 err=33.1 latency=92.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for api-gateway.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"credential_rotation_breakage\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.9,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "credential_rotation_breakage", "affected_services": ["worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.9, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.5 mem=40.8 err=27.4 latency=229.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=33.2 mem=36.6 err=33.1 latency=92.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.3695, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.5 mem=40.8 err=27.4 latency=229.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=29.0 mem=31.4 err=1.0 latency=35.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.18\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.22\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.157, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.1 mem=29.6 err=0.0 latency=30.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.7 mem=29.5 err=0.0 latency=33.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: worker restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.1 mem=29.6 err=0.0 latency=30.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.7 mem=29.5 err=0.0 latency=33.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.1 mem=29.6 err=0.0 latency=30.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.7 mem=23.4 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.1 mem=30.8 err=1.0 latency=21.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.7 mem=29.5 err=0.0 latency=33.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.925679+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
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Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] api-gateway: Gateway returning 503 on /v1/profile and /v1/billing endpoints (~27% error rate).\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker /v1/identity calls returning 401 from auth provider (~34% rate).\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.1 mem=40.9 err=27.1 latency=210.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=30.9 mem=39.4 err=32.0 latency=87.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.24-wor55 25 hours ago (hardcoded short-lived service-account JWT instead of using rotating secret store; expired 8 minutes ago).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=39.2 err=28.7 latency=224.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.9 mem=35.2 err=31.6 latency=88.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'auth.provider returned 401 \u2014 token expired at 2026-04-25T12:00:00Z'. Token was hardcoded by worker@2026.04.24-identity-fix from yesterday; expiry was 24h.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=39.2 err=28.7 latency=224.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.9 mem=35.2 err=31.6 latency=88.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker /v1/identity error rate 34% \u2014 every error is a 401 from the auth provider, none from worker logic.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=39.2 err=28.7 latency=224.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.9 mem=35.2 err=31.6 latency=88.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"api-gateway\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "api-gateway", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Gateway 503 rate at 27% \u2014 concentrated exclusively on identity-touching endpoints.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=39.2 err=28.7 latency=224.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.9 mem=35.2 err=31.6 latency=88.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for api-gateway.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"credential_rotation_breakage\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.9,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "credential_rotation_breakage", "affected_services": ["worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.9, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=39.2 err=28.7 latency=224.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.9 mem=35.2 err=31.6 latency=88.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.3695, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=39.2 err=28.7 latency=224.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: healthy cpu=29.2 mem=31.4 err=0.9 latency=37.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.18\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.22\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.157, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=25.1 mem=30.2 err=0.0 latency=30.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=34.5 err=0.0 latency=29.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: worker restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=25.1 mem=30.2 err=0.0 latency=30.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=34.5 err=0.0 latency=29.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=25.1 mem=30.2 err=0.0 latency=30.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=22.7 err=0.0 latency=14.5\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=33.2 err=1.0 latency=23.1\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=34.5 err=0.0 latency=29.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.926691+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "54ab49e0-9b40-4c55-a37e-a402bafc75f5", "scenario_id": "auth_token_expiry__p04", "template_id": "auth_token_expiry", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 4, "difficulty": "medium", "final_score": 0.9329, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.3292, "final_score": 0.9329, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] api-gateway: Gateway returning 503 on /v1/profile and /v1/billing endpoints (~27% error rate).\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker /v1/identity calls returning 401 from auth provider (~34% rate).\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=32.3 mem=39.1 err=28.2 latency=236.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: degraded cpu=31.8 mem=37.4 err=35.9 latency=100.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.24-wor67 25 hours ago (hardcoded short-lived service-account JWT instead of using rotating secret store; expired 27 minutes ago).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.3 mem=37.9 err=27.2 latency=206.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.2 mem=39.1 err=36.3 latency=90.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'auth.provider returned 401 \u2014 token expired at 2026-04-25T12:00:00Z'. Token was hardcoded by worker@2026.04.24-identity-fix from yesterday; expiry was 24h.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.3 mem=37.9 err=27.2 latency=206.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.2 mem=39.1 err=36.3 latency=90.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker /v1/identity error rate 34% \u2014 every error is a 401 from the auth provider, none from worker logic.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.3 mem=37.9 err=27.2 latency=206.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.2 mem=39.1 err=36.3 latency=90.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"api-gateway\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "api-gateway", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Gateway 503 rate at 27% \u2014 concentrated exclusively on identity-touching endpoints.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.3 mem=37.9 err=27.2 latency=206.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.2 mem=39.1 err=36.3 latency=90.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for api-gateway.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"credential_rotation_breakage\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.9,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "credential_rotation_breakage", "affected_services": ["worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.9, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.3 mem=37.9 err=27.2 latency=206.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: degraded cpu=29.2 mem=39.1 err=36.3 latency=90.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.55\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.60\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.3695, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=34.3 mem=37.9 err=27.2 latency=206.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.9 mem=31.8 err=1.1 latency=36.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.18\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.22\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.157, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.2 mem=29.8 err=0.0 latency=29.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.6 mem=34.1 err=0.0 latency=33.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: worker restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.2 mem=29.8 err=0.0 latency=29.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.6 mem=34.1 err=0.0 latency=33.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA worker deploy from yesterday hardcoded a service-account JWT against the auth provider. That JWT just expired. Worker calls to internal /v1/identity now return 401, which the worker propagates as 503 to upstream gateway. Gateway looks like the loud service in alerts, but it is a downstream symptom \u2014 the deploy regression is on worker, and rolling back the worker deploy restores credential refresh logic. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] stripe-webhook: Stripe webhook retry rate +6% (unrelated diurnal variance).\n- [WARNING] clerk-auth: Clerk-auth public-JWKS fetch latency +18ms (unrelated provider weather).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.2 mem=29.8 err=0.0 latency=29.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.3 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=29.8 err=1.0 latency=20.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.6 mem=34.1 err=0.0 latency=33.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.08\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.12\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.927666+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
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Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker CPU pinned at 84% with rising connection-refused errors against cache.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Login latency p95 climbed to 480ms; user impact climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache rejecting new connections: 'max clients reached' since last rollout.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.0 mem=36.0 err=18.0 latency=480.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=28.0 mem=31.0 err=22.0 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=84.0 mem=52.0 err=14.0 latency=360.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-pool-shrink 14 minutes ago (maxclients 1024 -> 64; 'cost optimization').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.0 mem=36.0 err=18.0 latency=480.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=28.0 mem=31.0 err=22.0 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=84.0 mem=52.0 err=14.0 latency=360.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'redis: connection pool timeout' loops; CPU is consumed re-establishing failed connections, not real workload.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.0 mem=36.0 err=18.0 latency=480.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=28.0 mem=31.0 err=22.0 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=84.0 mem=52.0 err=14.0 latency=360.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 14% \u2014 every error is a cache-acquire timeout, none originate from worker itself.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.0 mem=36.0 err=18.0 latency=480.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=28.0 mem=31.0 err=22.0 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=84.0 mem=52.0 err=14.0 latency=360.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker -> cache (read-heavy) -> database (write-heavy)", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.0 mem=36.0 err=18.0 latency=480.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=28.0 mem=31.0 err=22.0 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=84.0 mem=52.0 err=14.0 latency=360.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"dependency_pool_exhausted\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "dependency_pool_exhausted", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.0 mem=36.0 err=18.0 latency=480.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=28.0 mem=31.0 err=22.0 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=84.0 mem=52.0 err=14.0 latency=360.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.188, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.0 mem=36.0 err=18.0 latency=480.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=5.0 latency=18.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=84.0 mem=52.0 err=14.0 latency=360.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.34\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.38\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3875, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=30.0 err=0.0 latency=38.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=21.0 mem=27.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=32.0 err=0.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=44.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=30.0 err=0.0 latency=38.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=21.0 mem=27.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=32.0 err=0.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=44.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=30.0 err=0.0 latency=38.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=21.0 mem=27.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=32.0 err=0.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=44.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.928677+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "9b0802a3-ba1d-4f7b-b258-e5648a49f4e1", "scenario_id": "dep_degradation__p01", "template_id": "dep_degradation", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 1, "difficulty": "medium", "final_score": 0.9368, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.3679, "final_score": 0.9368, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker CPU pinned at 84% with rising connection-refused errors against cache.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Login latency p95 climbed to 480ms; user impact climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache rejecting new connections: 'max clients reached' since last rollout.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.4 mem=35.8 err=16.7 latency=467.1\n- cache: degraded cpu=29.0 mem=32.2 err=23.0 latency=30.0\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=89.1 mem=49.0 err=14.9 latency=369.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-cac14 24 minutes ago (maxclients 1024 -> 64; 'cost optimization').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.1 mem=37.3 err=16.9 latency=498.1\n- cache: degraded cpu=30.0 mem=31.8 err=22.8 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.3 mem=49.2 err=12.9 latency=335.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'redis: connection pool timeout' loops; CPU is consumed re-establishing failed connections, not real workload.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.1 mem=37.3 err=16.9 latency=498.1\n- cache: degraded cpu=30.0 mem=31.8 err=22.8 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.3 mem=49.2 err=12.9 latency=335.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 14% \u2014 every error is a cache-acquire timeout, none originate from worker itself.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.1 mem=37.3 err=16.9 latency=498.1\n- cache: degraded cpu=30.0 mem=31.8 err=22.8 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.3 mem=49.2 err=12.9 latency=335.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker -> cache (read-heavy) -> database (write-heavy)", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.1 mem=37.3 err=16.9 latency=498.1\n- cache: degraded cpu=30.0 mem=31.8 err=22.8 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.3 mem=49.2 err=12.9 latency=335.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"dependency_pool_exhausted\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "dependency_pool_exhausted", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.1 mem=37.3 err=16.9 latency=498.1\n- cache: degraded cpu=30.0 mem=31.8 err=22.8 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.3 mem=49.2 err=12.9 latency=335.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.188, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.1 mem=37.3 err=16.9 latency=498.1\n- cache: degraded cpu=23.9 mem=28.2 err=4.7 latency=17.4\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.3 mem=49.2 err=12.9 latency=335.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.34\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.38\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3875, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=25.9 mem=30.4 err=0.0 latency=38.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.6 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=15.0\n- database: healthy cpu=30.2 mem=31.4 err=0.0 latency=22.9\n- worker: healthy cpu=25.3 mem=29.4 err=0.9 latency=47.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=25.9 mem=30.4 err=0.0 latency=38.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.6 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=15.0\n- database: healthy cpu=30.2 mem=31.4 err=0.0 latency=22.9\n- worker: healthy cpu=25.3 mem=29.4 err=0.9 latency=47.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=25.9 mem=30.4 err=0.0 latency=38.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.6 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=15.0\n- database: healthy cpu=30.2 mem=31.4 err=0.0 latency=22.9\n- worker: healthy cpu=25.3 mem=29.4 err=0.9 latency=47.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.929690+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "987e94f2-3f96-43d5-9a0b-16fc676f2c76", "scenario_id": "dep_degradation__p02", "template_id": "dep_degradation", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 2, "difficulty": "medium", "final_score": 0.9368, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.3679, "final_score": 0.9368, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker CPU pinned at 84% with rising connection-refused errors against cache.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Login latency p95 climbed to 480ms; user impact climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache rejecting new connections: 'max clients reached' since last rollout.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=44.2 mem=35.1 err=19.4 latency=515.2\n- cache: degraded cpu=28.0 mem=31.7 err=21.9 latency=27.2\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.7 err=1.1 latency=24.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=87.2 mem=55.0 err=13.8 latency=386.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-cac69 22 minutes ago (maxclients 1024 -> 64; 'cost optimization').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=43.0 mem=36.4 err=18.6 latency=446.5\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.0 mem=33.3 err=21.1 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.7 err=1.1 latency=24.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=80.0 mem=54.6 err=13.1 latency=379.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'redis: connection pool timeout' loops; CPU is consumed re-establishing failed connections, not real workload.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=43.0 mem=36.4 err=18.6 latency=446.5\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.0 mem=33.3 err=21.1 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.7 err=1.1 latency=24.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=80.0 mem=54.6 err=13.1 latency=379.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 14% \u2014 every error is a cache-acquire timeout, none originate from worker itself.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=43.0 mem=36.4 err=18.6 latency=446.5\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.0 mem=33.3 err=21.1 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.7 err=1.1 latency=24.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=80.0 mem=54.6 err=13.1 latency=379.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker -> cache (read-heavy) -> database (write-heavy)", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=43.0 mem=36.4 err=18.6 latency=446.5\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.0 mem=33.3 err=21.1 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.7 err=1.1 latency=24.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=80.0 mem=54.6 err=13.1 latency=379.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"dependency_pool_exhausted\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "dependency_pool_exhausted", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=43.0 mem=36.4 err=18.6 latency=446.5\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.0 mem=33.3 err=21.1 latency=28.8\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.7 err=1.1 latency=24.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=80.0 mem=54.6 err=13.1 latency=379.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.188, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=43.0 mem=36.4 err=18.6 latency=446.5\n- cache: degraded cpu=22.5 mem=29.5 err=4.6 latency=18.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.7 err=1.1 latency=24.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=80.0 mem=54.6 err=13.1 latency=379.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.34\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.38\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3875, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.9 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=35.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=27.9 err=0.0 latency=14.4\n- database: healthy cpu=28.8 mem=29.9 err=0.0 latency=21.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.2 mem=30.1 err=1.0 latency=47.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.9 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=35.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=27.9 err=0.0 latency=14.4\n- database: healthy cpu=28.8 mem=29.9 err=0.0 latency=21.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.2 mem=30.1 err=1.0 latency=47.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.9 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=35.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=27.9 err=0.0 latency=14.4\n- database: healthy cpu=28.8 mem=29.9 err=0.0 latency=21.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.2 mem=30.1 err=1.0 latency=47.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.930723+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
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Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker CPU pinned at 84% with rising connection-refused errors against cache.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Login latency p95 climbed to 480ms; user impact climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache rejecting new connections: 'max clients reached' since last rollout.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=38.0 mem=38.8 err=17.4 latency=493.5\n- cache: degraded cpu=29.6 mem=30.4 err=23.2 latency=29.3\n- database: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=35.6 err=1.0 latency=27.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=81.7 mem=55.4 err=14.5 latency=357.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-cac31 10 minutes ago (maxclients 1024 -> 64; 'cost optimization').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=38.8 mem=35.9 err=17.5 latency=502.8\n- cache: degraded cpu=29.8 mem=29.8 err=23.2 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=35.6 err=1.0 latency=27.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=82.2 mem=49.3 err=14.4 latency=381.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'redis: connection pool timeout' loops; CPU is consumed re-establishing failed connections, not real workload.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=38.8 mem=35.9 err=17.5 latency=502.8\n- cache: degraded cpu=29.8 mem=29.8 err=23.2 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=35.6 err=1.0 latency=27.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=82.2 mem=49.3 err=14.4 latency=381.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 14% \u2014 every error is a cache-acquire timeout, none originate from worker itself.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=38.8 mem=35.9 err=17.5 latency=502.8\n- cache: degraded cpu=29.8 mem=29.8 err=23.2 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=35.6 err=1.0 latency=27.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=82.2 mem=49.3 err=14.4 latency=381.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker -> cache (read-heavy) -> database (write-heavy)", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=38.8 mem=35.9 err=17.5 latency=502.8\n- cache: degraded cpu=29.8 mem=29.8 err=23.2 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=35.6 err=1.0 latency=27.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=82.2 mem=49.3 err=14.4 latency=381.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"dependency_pool_exhausted\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "dependency_pool_exhausted", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=38.8 mem=35.9 err=17.5 latency=502.8\n- cache: degraded cpu=29.8 mem=29.8 err=23.2 latency=28.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=35.6 err=1.0 latency=27.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=82.2 mem=49.3 err=14.4 latency=381.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.188, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=38.8 mem=35.9 err=17.5 latency=502.8\n- cache: degraded cpu=24.3 mem=28.7 err=5.1 latency=18.6\n- database: healthy cpu=26.6 mem=35.6 err=1.0 latency=27.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=82.2 mem=49.3 err=14.4 latency=381.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.34\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.38\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3875, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.7 mem=28.1 err=0.0 latency=39.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=21.8 mem=27.2 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=29.9 err=0.0 latency=23.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.3 mem=33.8 err=1.1 latency=43.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.7 mem=28.1 err=0.0 latency=39.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=21.8 mem=27.2 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=29.9 err=0.0 latency=23.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.3 mem=33.8 err=1.1 latency=43.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.7 mem=28.1 err=0.0 latency=39.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=21.8 mem=27.2 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=29.9 err=0.0 latency=23.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.3 mem=33.8 err=1.1 latency=43.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.931764+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
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Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker CPU pinned at 84% with rising connection-refused errors against cache.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Login latency p95 climbed to 480ms; user impact climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache rejecting new connections: 'max clients reached' since last rollout.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=39.3 mem=37.5 err=17.9 latency=483.9\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.0 mem=33.2 err=21.5 latency=27.1\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=34.6 err=0.9 latency=25.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=84.3 mem=50.9 err=14.7 latency=351.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-cac13 9 minutes ago (maxclients 1024 -> 64; 'cost optimization').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.8 mem=38.3 err=18.3 latency=497.6\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.6 mem=32.5 err=21.1 latency=26.0\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=34.6 err=0.9 latency=25.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.6 mem=49.4 err=15.0 latency=360.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'redis: connection pool timeout' loops; CPU is consumed re-establishing failed connections, not real workload.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.8 mem=38.3 err=18.3 latency=497.6\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.6 mem=32.5 err=21.1 latency=26.0\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=34.6 err=0.9 latency=25.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.6 mem=49.4 err=15.0 latency=360.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 14% \u2014 every error is a cache-acquire timeout, none originate from worker itself.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.8 mem=38.3 err=18.3 latency=497.6\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.6 mem=32.5 err=21.1 latency=26.0\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=34.6 err=0.9 latency=25.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.6 mem=49.4 err=15.0 latency=360.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker -> cache (read-heavy) -> database (write-heavy)", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.8 mem=38.3 err=18.3 latency=497.6\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.6 mem=32.5 err=21.1 latency=26.0\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=34.6 err=0.9 latency=25.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.6 mem=49.4 err=15.0 latency=360.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"dependency_pool_exhausted\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "dependency_pool_exhausted", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.8 mem=38.3 err=18.3 latency=497.6\n- cache: degraded cpu=27.6 mem=32.5 err=21.1 latency=26.0\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=34.6 err=0.9 latency=25.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.6 mem=49.4 err=15.0 latency=360.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.62\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.66\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.188, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.8 mem=38.3 err=18.3 latency=497.6\n- cache: degraded cpu=22.9 mem=29.8 err=5.1 latency=19.2\n- database: healthy cpu=25.5 mem=34.6 err=0.9 latency=25.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=77.6 mem=49.4 err=15.0 latency=360.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.34\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.38\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3875, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.7 mem=29.8 err=0.0 latency=35.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.7 mem=25.7 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: healthy cpu=26.4 mem=34.5 err=0.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=25.7 mem=32.7 err=1.0 latency=41.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.7 mem=29.8 err=0.0 latency=35.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.7 mem=25.7 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: healthy cpu=26.4 mem=34.5 err=0.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=25.7 mem=32.7 err=1.0 latency=41.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache (Redis) deploy lowered max_clients from 1024 to 64. The cache process is healthy in its own metrics, but new connections fail with 'max clients reached'. The worker \u2014 which depends on cache for session lookups \u2014 is degraded with high CPU as it spins on connection errors. Na\u00efve responders blame the worker because its CPU is loud; the agent must follow the evidence to the cache deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy p95 latency +21ms (provider weather, unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert \u2014 downstream echo of worker errors, not a separate fault.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.7 mem=29.8 err=0.0 latency=35.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.7 mem=25.7 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: healthy cpu=26.4 mem=34.5 err=0.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=25.7 mem=32.7 err=1.0 latency=41.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.933030+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "c00bc9e0-6cf9-4aef-b87c-00e908136759", "scenario_id": "memory_leak_oom", "template_id": "memory_leak_oom", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 0, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker pod restart count: 14 in last 20 minutes (baseline 0). OOMKilled exit codes.\n- [WARNING] database: Database connection-establish rate spiking every ~90s in lockstep with worker restarts.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway 5xx error rate climbing as background jobs queue waiting on dead worker.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=47.0 mem=39.0 err=21.0 latency=580.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=78.0 mem=64.0 err=11.0 latency=410.0\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.0 mem=96.0 err=8.0 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-cache-prefetch 35 minutes ago (in-memory prefetch cache for hot keys; no per-request cache eviction).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=47.0 mem=39.0 err=21.0 latency=580.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=78.0 mem=64.0 err=11.0 latency=410.0\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.0 mem=96.0 err=8.0 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"cpu\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "cpu"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker CPU low (12%) \u2014 process spends most of its life dead, not working.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=47.0 mem=39.0 err=21.0 latency=580.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=78.0 mem=64.0 err=11.0 latency=410.0\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.0 mem=96.0 err=8.0 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried cpu for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'process killed (OOM)' every ~90s. Memory growth pattern began exactly at worker@2026.04.25-cache-prefetch rollout 35 minutes ago. Restart count: 14.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=47.0 mem=39.0 err=21.0 latency=580.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=78.0 mem=64.0 err=11.0 latency=410.0\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.0 mem=96.0 err=8.0 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database error_rate is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=47.0 mem=39.0 err=21.0 latency=580.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=78.0 mem=64.0 err=11.0 latency=410.0\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.0 mem=96.0 err=8.0 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"memory_leak_runaway\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "memory_leak_runaway", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=47.0 mem=39.0 err=21.0 latency=580.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=78.0 mem=64.0 err=11.0 latency=410.0\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.0 mem=96.0 err=8.0 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.4665, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=47.0 mem=39.0 err=21.0 latency=580.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=78.0 mem=64.0 err=11.0 latency=410.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=30.0 mem=38.0 err=1.0 latency=56.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.42\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.46\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.267, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=30.0 err=0.0 latency=36.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=36.0 mem=42.0 err=0.0 latency=28.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=36.0 err=1.0 latency=48.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=30.0 err=0.0 latency=36.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=36.0 mem=42.0 err=0.0 latency=28.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=36.0 err=1.0 latency=48.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=30.0 err=0.0 latency=36.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=36.0 mem=42.0 err=0.0 latency=28.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=36.0 err=1.0 latency=48.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.934108+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "466bb970-0982-4b8a-9595-7ac6900cbca1", "scenario_id": "memory_leak_oom__p01", "template_id": "memory_leak_oom", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 1, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker pod restart count: 14 in last 20 minutes (baseline 0). OOMKilled exit codes.\n- [WARNING] database: Database connection-establish rate spiking every ~90s in lockstep with worker restarts.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway 5xx error rate climbing as background jobs queue waiting on dead worker.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.4 mem=40.5 err=21.5 latency=616.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=70.3 mem=63.4 err=10.4 latency=391.5\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.6 mem=95.7 err=7.9 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-wor32 15 minutes ago (in-memory prefetch cache for hot keys; no per-request cache eviction).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.4 mem=36.1 err=21.4 latency=582.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=77.5 mem=68.6 err=10.3 latency=445.1\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.1 mem=94.8 err=7.4 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"cpu\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "cpu"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker CPU low (12%) \u2014 process spends most of its life dead, not working.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.4 mem=36.1 err=21.4 latency=582.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=77.5 mem=68.6 err=10.3 latency=445.1\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.1 mem=94.8 err=7.4 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried cpu for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'process killed (OOM)' every ~90s. Memory growth pattern began exactly at worker@2026.04.25-cache-prefetch rollout 35 minutes ago. Restart count: 14.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.4 mem=36.1 err=21.4 latency=582.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=77.5 mem=68.6 err=10.3 latency=445.1\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.1 mem=94.8 err=7.4 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database error_rate is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.4 mem=36.1 err=21.4 latency=582.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=77.5 mem=68.6 err=10.3 latency=445.1\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.1 mem=94.8 err=7.4 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"memory_leak_runaway\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "memory_leak_runaway", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.4 mem=36.1 err=21.4 latency=582.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=77.5 mem=68.6 err=10.3 latency=445.1\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.1 mem=94.8 err=7.4 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.4665, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.4 mem=36.1 err=21.4 latency=582.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=77.5 mem=68.6 err=10.3 latency=445.1\n- worker: healthy cpu=31.7 mem=39.5 err=1.0 latency=51.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.42\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.46\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.267, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=27.4 mem=28.8 err=0.0 latency=37.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=36.4 mem=41.2 err=0.0 latency=26.7\n- worker: healthy cpu=28.9 mem=38.9 err=1.0 latency=43.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=27.4 mem=28.8 err=0.0 latency=37.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=36.4 mem=41.2 err=0.0 latency=26.7\n- worker: healthy cpu=28.9 mem=38.9 err=1.0 latency=43.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=27.4 mem=28.8 err=0.0 latency=37.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.0 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=36.4 mem=41.2 err=0.0 latency=26.7\n- worker: healthy cpu=28.9 mem=38.9 err=1.0 latency=43.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.935118+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "4ff148ca-ef14-4a07-80f1-e0e4e5c7ef98", "scenario_id": "memory_leak_oom__p02", "template_id": "memory_leak_oom", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 2, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker pod restart count: 14 in last 20 minutes (baseline 0). OOMKilled exit codes.\n- [WARNING] database: Database connection-establish rate spiking every ~90s in lockstep with worker restarts.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway 5xx error rate climbing as background jobs queue waiting on dead worker.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=50.6 mem=42.1 err=19.4 latency=587.8\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: degraded cpu=78.5 mem=69.5 err=10.0 latency=398.6\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.5 mem=91.4 err=8.6 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-wor44 17 minutes ago (in-memory prefetch cache for hot keys; no per-request cache eviction).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.5 mem=37.5 err=22.0 latency=595.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: degraded cpu=84.2 mem=62.5 err=11.5 latency=437.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.2 mem=100.0 err=8.5 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"cpu\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "cpu"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker CPU low (12%) \u2014 process spends most of its life dead, not working.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.5 mem=37.5 err=22.0 latency=595.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: degraded cpu=84.2 mem=62.5 err=11.5 latency=437.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.2 mem=100.0 err=8.5 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried cpu for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'process killed (OOM)' every ~90s. Memory growth pattern began exactly at worker@2026.04.25-cache-prefetch rollout 35 minutes ago. Restart count: 14.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.5 mem=37.5 err=22.0 latency=595.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: degraded cpu=84.2 mem=62.5 err=11.5 latency=437.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.2 mem=100.0 err=8.5 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database error_rate is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.5 mem=37.5 err=22.0 latency=595.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: degraded cpu=84.2 mem=62.5 err=11.5 latency=437.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.2 mem=100.0 err=8.5 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"memory_leak_runaway\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "memory_leak_runaway", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.5 mem=37.5 err=22.0 latency=595.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: degraded cpu=84.2 mem=62.5 err=11.5 latency=437.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.2 mem=100.0 err=8.5 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.4665, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.5 mem=37.5 err=22.0 latency=595.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: degraded cpu=84.2 mem=62.5 err=11.5 latency=437.9\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.9 mem=40.1 err=1.0 latency=52.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.42\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.46\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.267, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.4 mem=32.9 err=0.0 latency=38.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: healthy cpu=35.8 mem=45.4 err=0.0 latency=29.4\n- worker: healthy cpu=30.3 mem=32.4 err=1.0 latency=44.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.4 mem=32.9 err=0.0 latency=38.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: healthy cpu=35.8 mem=45.4 err=0.0 latency=29.4\n- worker: healthy cpu=30.3 mem=32.4 err=1.0 latency=44.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.4 mem=32.9 err=0.0 latency=38.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=24.1 err=0.0 latency=13.2\n- database: healthy cpu=35.8 mem=45.4 err=0.0 latency=29.4\n- worker: healthy cpu=30.3 mem=32.4 err=1.0 latency=44.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.936133+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "52b19454-3853-4c62-8e19-e8be64d4be9c", "scenario_id": "memory_leak_oom__p03", "template_id": "memory_leak_oom", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 3, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker pod restart count: 14 in last 20 minutes (baseline 0). OOMKilled exit codes.\n- [WARNING] database: Database connection-establish rate spiking every ~90s in lockstep with worker restarts.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway 5xx error rate climbing as background jobs queue waiting on dead worker.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=49.8 mem=42.3 err=21.2 latency=599.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: degraded cpu=83.1 mem=59.8 err=10.5 latency=418.0\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.6 mem=94.8 err=8.0 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-wor59 17 minutes ago (in-memory prefetch cache for hot keys; no per-request cache eviction).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.7 mem=42.5 err=19.5 latency=636.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: degraded cpu=76.5 mem=59.9 err=10.5 latency=402.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.4 mem=93.7 err=8.1 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"cpu\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "cpu"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker CPU low (12%) \u2014 process spends most of its life dead, not working.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.7 mem=42.5 err=19.5 latency=636.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: degraded cpu=76.5 mem=59.9 err=10.5 latency=402.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.4 mem=93.7 err=8.1 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried cpu for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'process killed (OOM)' every ~90s. Memory growth pattern began exactly at worker@2026.04.25-cache-prefetch rollout 35 minutes ago. Restart count: 14.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.7 mem=42.5 err=19.5 latency=636.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: degraded cpu=76.5 mem=59.9 err=10.5 latency=402.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.4 mem=93.7 err=8.1 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database error_rate is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.7 mem=42.5 err=19.5 latency=636.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: degraded cpu=76.5 mem=59.9 err=10.5 latency=402.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.4 mem=93.7 err=8.1 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"memory_leak_runaway\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "memory_leak_runaway", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.7 mem=42.5 err=19.5 latency=636.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: degraded cpu=76.5 mem=59.9 err=10.5 latency=402.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=11.4 mem=93.7 err=8.1 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.4665, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=51.7 mem=42.5 err=19.5 latency=636.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: degraded cpu=76.5 mem=59.9 err=10.5 latency=402.9\n- worker: healthy cpu=31.9 mem=36.5 err=1.0 latency=57.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.42\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.46\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.267, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.4 mem=28.8 err=0.0 latency=37.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=37.3 mem=40.7 err=0.0 latency=28.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=38.4 err=1.0 latency=48.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.4 mem=28.8 err=0.0 latency=37.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=37.3 mem=40.7 err=0.0 latency=28.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=38.4 err=1.0 latency=48.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=28.4 mem=28.8 err=0.0 latency=37.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.6 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=13.8\n- database: healthy cpu=37.3 mem=40.7 err=0.0 latency=28.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=38.4 err=1.0 latency=48.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.937140+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "98c17b16-2c61-4ac5-af54-fbe1e29b961a", "scenario_id": "memory_leak_oom__p04", "template_id": "memory_leak_oom", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 4, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker pod restart count: 14 in last 20 minutes (baseline 0). OOMKilled exit codes.\n- [WARNING] database: Database connection-establish rate spiking every ~90s in lockstep with worker restarts.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway 5xx error rate climbing as background jobs queue waiting on dead worker.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=50.1 mem=39.2 err=22.4 latency=568.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: degraded cpu=78.3 mem=69.1 err=11.7 latency=403.8\n- worker: crashed cpu=13.1 mem=88.3 err=8.6 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-wor64 28 minutes ago (in-memory prefetch cache for hot keys; no per-request cache eviction).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.0 mem=38.2 err=21.2 latency=552.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: degraded cpu=79.2 mem=63.7 err=10.9 latency=400.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.8 mem=97.5 err=8.7 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"cpu\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "cpu"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker CPU low (12%) \u2014 process spends most of its life dead, not working.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.0 mem=38.2 err=21.2 latency=552.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: degraded cpu=79.2 mem=63.7 err=10.9 latency=400.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.8 mem=97.5 err=8.7 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried cpu for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: 'process killed (OOM)' every ~90s. Memory growth pattern began exactly at worker@2026.04.25-cache-prefetch rollout 35 minutes ago. Restart count: 14.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.0 mem=38.2 err=21.2 latency=552.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: degraded cpu=79.2 mem=63.7 err=10.9 latency=400.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.8 mem=97.5 err=8.7 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database error_rate is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.0 mem=38.2 err=21.2 latency=552.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: degraded cpu=79.2 mem=63.7 err=10.9 latency=400.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.8 mem=97.5 err=8.7 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"memory_leak_runaway\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "memory_leak_runaway", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [CRITICAL] worker: worker is unavailable.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.0 mem=38.2 err=21.2 latency=552.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: degraded cpu=79.2 mem=63.7 err=10.9 latency=400.9\n- worker: crashed cpu=12.8 mem=97.5 err=8.7 latency=0.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.78\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.84\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.4665, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.0 mem=38.2 err=21.2 latency=552.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: degraded cpu=79.2 mem=63.7 err=10.9 latency=400.9\n- worker: healthy cpu=32.1 mem=39.9 err=0.9 latency=51.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.42\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.46\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.267, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=27.7 mem=28.6 err=0.0 latency=38.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: healthy cpu=33.7 mem=38.4 err=0.0 latency=25.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=29.4 mem=39.2 err=0.9 latency=47.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=27.7 mem=28.6 err=0.0 latency=38.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: healthy cpu=33.7 mem=38.4 err=0.0 latency=25.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=29.4 mem=39.2 err=0.9 latency=47.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA recent worker deploy introduced a memory leak. The worker is in an OOM-kill restart loop: every ~90s it consumes its memory budget, gets killed, restarts, and connects back to the database \u2014 which sees a synchronization storm on every restart. The agent must recognize that *restart count* is climbing faster than *error rate*, and that the downstream database overload is reactive, not the cause. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] supabase-realtime: Realtime subscription reconnect storm during scheduled credential rotation (unrelated).\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: new release error rate +120% (downstream echo of the actual fault).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=27.7 mem=28.6 err=0.0 latency=38.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=20.2 mem=23.9 err=0.0 latency=14.6\n- database: healthy cpu=33.7 mem=38.4 err=0.0 latency=25.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=29.4 mem=39.2 err=0.9 latency=47.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.938208+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "6d8bae81-b2d7-4a1b-a4ad-bfe11c9b4efb", "scenario_id": "migration_lock", "template_id": "migration_lock", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 0, "difficulty": "medium", "final_score": 0.9368, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.3679, "final_score": 0.9368, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] database: Database lock_wait_count at 412 (baseline 0). Write queries timing out at lock_timeout=8s.\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker write-path errors 28% \u2014 every error is a database lock_timeout, not a worker fault.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 880ms; user-visible write requests timing out.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.0 mem=35.0 err=16.0 latency=880.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=22.0 mem=41.0 err=33.0 latency=7600.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=28.0 err=28.0 latency=6900.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Applied db@2026.04.25-orders-index 18 minutes ago (CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status); ran *without* CONCURRENTLY at 14:00 UTC peak).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.0 mem=35.0 err=16.0 latency=880.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=22.0 mem=41.0 err=33.0 latency=7600.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=28.0 err=28.0 latency=6900.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Postgres logs: hundreds of 'process X waiting for AccessExclusiveLock on relation public.orders'. Holding session: pid 9128, query 'CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status)', started by db@2026.04.25-orders-index 18 minutes ago. CPU is *low* because no one can do work.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.0 mem=35.0 err=16.0 latency=880.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=22.0 mem=41.0 err=33.0 latency=7600.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=28.0 err=28.0 latency=6900.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database p95 7600ms \u2014 but only on the locked table; reads of users/sessions are fast.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.0 mem=35.0 err=16.0 latency=880.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=22.0 mem=41.0 err=33.0 latency=7600.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=28.0 err=28.0 latency=6900.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 28% \u2014 every error is downstream lock_timeout; worker code is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.0 mem=35.0 err=16.0 latency=880.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=22.0 mem=41.0 err=33.0 latency=7600.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=28.0 err=28.0 latency=6900.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"migration_lock_contention\",\"affected_services\":[\"database\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.88,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "migration_lock_contention", "affected_services": ["database", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.88, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.0 mem=35.0 err=16.0 latency=880.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=22.0 mem=41.0 err=33.0 latency=7600.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=28.0 err=28.0 latency=6900.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.219, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.0 mem=35.0 err=16.0 latency=880.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=36.0 mem=42.0 err=4.0 latency=80.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=28.0 err=28.0 latency=6900.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the database deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=36.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=32.0 mem=38.0 err=0.0 latency=28.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=22.0 mem=30.0 err=1.0 latency=50.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=36.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=32.0 mem=38.0 err=0.0 latency=28.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=22.0 mem=30.0 err=1.0 latency=50.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=36.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=23.0 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=32.0 mem=38.0 err=0.0 latency=28.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=22.0 mem=30.0 err=1.0 latency=50.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.939282+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "b81eacb3-91f1-452b-b921-1556a3477898", "scenario_id": "migration_lock__p01", "template_id": "migration_lock", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 1, "difficulty": "medium", "final_score": 0.9368, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.3679, "final_score": 0.9368, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] database: Database lock_wait_count at 412 (baseline 0). Write queries timing out at lock_timeout=8s.\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker write-path errors 28% \u2014 every error is a database lock_timeout, not a worker fault.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 880ms; user-visible write requests timing out.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=37.2 mem=34.7 err=16.2 latency=905.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: degraded cpu=22.8 mem=42.7 err=33.9 latency=7788.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.2 mem=27.1 err=27.6 latency=6438.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Applied db@2026.04.25-dat92 10 minutes ago (CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status); ran *without* CONCURRENTLY at 14:00 UTC peak).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.7 mem=35.2 err=15.1 latency=944.8\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: degraded cpu=23.3 mem=42.7 err=31.2 latency=8044.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.9 mem=28.1 err=29.6 latency=6451.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Postgres logs: hundreds of 'process X waiting for AccessExclusiveLock on relation public.orders'. Holding session: pid 9128, query 'CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status)', started by db@2026.04.25-orders-index 18 minutes ago. CPU is *low* because no one can do work.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.7 mem=35.2 err=15.1 latency=944.8\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: degraded cpu=23.3 mem=42.7 err=31.2 latency=8044.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.9 mem=28.1 err=29.6 latency=6451.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database p95 7600ms \u2014 but only on the locked table; reads of users/sessions are fast.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.7 mem=35.2 err=15.1 latency=944.8\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: degraded cpu=23.3 mem=42.7 err=31.2 latency=8044.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.9 mem=28.1 err=29.6 latency=6451.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 28% \u2014 every error is downstream lock_timeout; worker code is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.7 mem=35.2 err=15.1 latency=944.8\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: degraded cpu=23.3 mem=42.7 err=31.2 latency=8044.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.9 mem=28.1 err=29.6 latency=6451.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"migration_lock_contention\",\"affected_services\":[\"database\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.88,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "migration_lock_contention", "affected_services": ["database", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.88, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.7 mem=35.2 err=15.1 latency=944.8\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: degraded cpu=23.3 mem=42.7 err=31.2 latency=8044.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.9 mem=28.1 err=29.6 latency=6451.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.219, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.7 mem=35.2 err=15.1 latency=944.8\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: degraded cpu=35.4 mem=43.2 err=4.1 latency=73.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.9 mem=28.1 err=29.6 latency=6451.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the database deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.4 mem=28.9 err=0.0 latency=34.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: healthy cpu=32.4 mem=36.6 err=0.0 latency=26.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=21.7 mem=29.0 err=1.0 latency=46.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.4 mem=28.9 err=0.0 latency=34.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: healthy cpu=32.4 mem=36.6 err=0.0 latency=26.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=21.7 mem=29.0 err=1.0 latency=46.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.4 mem=28.9 err=0.0 latency=34.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.0 mem=21.3 err=0.0 latency=12.9\n- database: healthy cpu=32.4 mem=36.6 err=0.0 latency=26.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=21.7 mem=29.0 err=1.0 latency=46.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.940356+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "22103b8c-da29-4b48-ae07-ce7b6fdaa117", "scenario_id": "migration_lock__p02", "template_id": "migration_lock", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 2, "difficulty": "medium", "final_score": 0.9368, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.3679, "final_score": 0.9368, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] database: Database lock_wait_count at 412 (baseline 0). Write queries timing out at lock_timeout=8s.\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker write-path errors 28% \u2014 every error is a database lock_timeout, not a worker fault.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 880ms; user-visible write requests timing out.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=37.8 mem=35.4 err=15.3 latency=837.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: degraded cpu=20.4 mem=43.2 err=31.9 latency=7604.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=16.9 mem=26.0 err=29.1 latency=7078.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Applied db@2026.04.25-dat81 25 minutes ago (CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status); ran *without* CONCURRENTLY at 14:00 UTC peak).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.9 mem=36.0 err=16.7 latency=853.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: degraded cpu=23.1 mem=38.5 err=34.8 latency=7138.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=29.3 err=29.8 latency=6589.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Postgres logs: hundreds of 'process X waiting for AccessExclusiveLock on relation public.orders'. Holding session: pid 9128, query 'CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status)', started by db@2026.04.25-orders-index 18 minutes ago. CPU is *low* because no one can do work.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.9 mem=36.0 err=16.7 latency=853.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: degraded cpu=23.1 mem=38.5 err=34.8 latency=7138.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=29.3 err=29.8 latency=6589.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database p95 7600ms \u2014 but only on the locked table; reads of users/sessions are fast.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.9 mem=36.0 err=16.7 latency=853.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: degraded cpu=23.1 mem=38.5 err=34.8 latency=7138.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=29.3 err=29.8 latency=6589.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 28% \u2014 every error is downstream lock_timeout; worker code is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.9 mem=36.0 err=16.7 latency=853.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: degraded cpu=23.1 mem=38.5 err=34.8 latency=7138.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=29.3 err=29.8 latency=6589.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"migration_lock_contention\",\"affected_services\":[\"database\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.88,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "migration_lock_contention", "affected_services": ["database", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.88, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.9 mem=36.0 err=16.7 latency=853.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: degraded cpu=23.1 mem=38.5 err=34.8 latency=7138.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=29.3 err=29.8 latency=6589.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.219, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.9 mem=36.0 err=16.7 latency=853.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: degraded cpu=35.9 mem=40.9 err=4.1 latency=84.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.0 mem=29.3 err=29.8 latency=6589.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the database deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.2 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=38.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: healthy cpu=29.6 mem=40.1 err=0.0 latency=27.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=23.8 mem=28.6 err=1.0 latency=48.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.2 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=38.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: healthy cpu=29.6 mem=40.1 err=0.0 latency=27.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=23.8 mem=28.6 err=1.0 latency=48.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.2 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=38.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.8 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=12.0\n- database: healthy cpu=29.6 mem=40.1 err=0.0 latency=27.6\n- worker: healthy cpu=23.8 mem=28.6 err=1.0 latency=48.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.941571+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "1ce656c4-ae16-4f81-8909-6ce56456b1d8", "scenario_id": "migration_lock__p03", "template_id": "migration_lock", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 3, "difficulty": "medium", "final_score": 0.9368, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.3679, "final_score": 0.9368, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] database: Database lock_wait_count at 412 (baseline 0). Write queries timing out at lock_timeout=8s.\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker write-path errors 28% \u2014 every error is a database lock_timeout, not a worker fault.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 880ms; user-visible write requests timing out.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.6 mem=33.0 err=15.6 latency=896.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: degraded cpu=21.3 mem=40.0 err=33.7 latency=7356.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.8 mem=28.2 err=26.7 latency=6594.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Applied db@2026.04.25-dat63 16 minutes ago (CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status); ran *without* CONCURRENTLY at 14:00 UTC peak).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=33.3 err=16.1 latency=938.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: degraded cpu=21.1 mem=41.9 err=30.4 latency=7631.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=17.4 mem=30.0 err=27.2 latency=7109.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Postgres logs: hundreds of 'process X waiting for AccessExclusiveLock on relation public.orders'. Holding session: pid 9128, query 'CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status)', started by db@2026.04.25-orders-index 18 minutes ago. CPU is *low* because no one can do work.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=33.3 err=16.1 latency=938.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: degraded cpu=21.1 mem=41.9 err=30.4 latency=7631.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=17.4 mem=30.0 err=27.2 latency=7109.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database p95 7600ms \u2014 but only on the locked table; reads of users/sessions are fast.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=33.3 err=16.1 latency=938.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: degraded cpu=21.1 mem=41.9 err=30.4 latency=7631.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=17.4 mem=30.0 err=27.2 latency=7109.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 28% \u2014 every error is downstream lock_timeout; worker code is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=33.3 err=16.1 latency=938.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: degraded cpu=21.1 mem=41.9 err=30.4 latency=7631.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=17.4 mem=30.0 err=27.2 latency=7109.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"migration_lock_contention\",\"affected_services\":[\"database\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.88,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "migration_lock_contention", "affected_services": ["database", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.88, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=33.3 err=16.1 latency=938.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: degraded cpu=21.1 mem=41.9 err=30.4 latency=7631.3\n- worker: degraded cpu=17.4 mem=30.0 err=27.2 latency=7109.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.219, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.3 mem=33.3 err=16.1 latency=938.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: degraded cpu=33.5 mem=40.2 err=4.1 latency=84.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=17.4 mem=30.0 err=27.2 latency=7109.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the database deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.4 mem=27.2 err=0.0 latency=35.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: healthy cpu=31.1 mem=38.3 err=0.0 latency=29.7\n- worker: healthy cpu=22.2 mem=30.7 err=1.0 latency=49.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.4 mem=27.2 err=0.0 latency=35.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: healthy cpu=31.1 mem=38.3 err=0.0 latency=29.7\n- worker: healthy cpu=22.2 mem=30.7 err=1.0 latency=49.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.4 mem=27.2 err=0.0 latency=35.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.1 mem=22.2 err=0.0 latency=13.7\n- database: healthy cpu=31.1 mem=38.3 err=0.0 latency=29.7\n- worker: healthy cpu=22.2 mem=30.7 err=1.0 latency=49.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.942645+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "45226350-c08a-4349-898c-e5c69c2b7b21", "scenario_id": "migration_lock__p04", "template_id": "migration_lock", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 4, "difficulty": "medium", "final_score": 0.9368, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.3679, "final_score": 0.9368, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] database: Database lock_wait_count at 412 (baseline 0). Write queries timing out at lock_timeout=8s.\n- [WARNING] worker: Worker write-path errors 28% \u2014 every error is a database lock_timeout, not a worker fault.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 880ms; user-visible write requests timing out.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.0 mem=34.8 err=15.4 latency=865.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: degraded cpu=21.7 mem=38.6 err=31.1 latency=7160.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=18.5 mem=29.1 err=30.1 latency=6866.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Applied db@2026.04.25-dat24 16 minutes ago (CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status); ran *without* CONCURRENTLY at 14:00 UTC peak).", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.1 mem=35.9 err=16.9 latency=904.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: degraded cpu=22.5 mem=41.5 err=34.3 latency=7642.2\n- worker: degraded cpu=16.9 mem=30.0 err=29.5 latency=7362.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "database"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Postgres logs: hundreds of 'process X waiting for AccessExclusiveLock on relation public.orders'. Holding session: pid 9128, query 'CREATE INDEX idx_orders_status ON public.orders(status)', started by db@2026.04.25-orders-index 18 minutes ago. CPU is *low* because no one can do work.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.1 mem=35.9 err=16.9 latency=904.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: degraded cpu=22.5 mem=41.5 err=34.3 latency=7642.2\n- worker: degraded cpu=16.9 mem=30.0 err=29.5 latency=7362.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database p95 7600ms \u2014 but only on the locked table; reads of users/sessions are fast.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.1 mem=35.9 err=16.9 latency=904.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: degraded cpu=22.5 mem=41.5 err=34.3 latency=7642.2\n- worker: degraded cpu=16.9 mem=30.0 err=29.5 latency=7362.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 28% \u2014 every error is downstream lock_timeout; worker code is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.1 mem=35.9 err=16.9 latency=904.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: degraded cpu=22.5 mem=41.5 err=34.3 latency=7642.2\n- worker: degraded cpu=16.9 mem=30.0 err=29.5 latency=7362.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"migration_lock_contention\",\"affected_services\":[\"database\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.88,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "migration_lock_contention", "affected_services": ["database", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.88, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.1 mem=35.9 err=16.9 latency=904.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: degraded cpu=22.5 mem=41.5 err=34.3 latency=7642.2\n- worker: degraded cpu=16.9 mem=30.0 err=29.5 latency=7362.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.219, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=33.1 mem=35.9 err=16.9 latency=904.6\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: degraded cpu=37.4 mem=42.6 err=3.9 latency=82.2\n- worker: degraded cpu=16.9 mem=30.0 err=29.5 latency=7362.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the database deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.8 mem=29.7 err=0.0 latency=37.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: healthy cpu=30.2 mem=35.7 err=0.0 latency=26.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=21.4 mem=29.6 err=1.0 latency=52.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.8 mem=29.7 err=0.0 latency=37.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: healthy cpu=30.2 mem=35.7 err=0.0 latency=26.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=21.4 mem=29.6 err=1.0 latency=52.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/12\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA database deploy ran a CREATE INDEX without CONCURRENTLY on the orders table at peak traffic. The migration acquired an AccessExclusiveLock that all writes are now waiting behind. Database CPU is normal \u2014 this is a lock-contention failure, not a compute failure. The agent must recognize that lock waits, not query volume, are the primary signal, and roll back / cancel the migration deploy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] feature-flags: Feature-flags subscriber reconnect \u2014 routine credential rotation.\n- [WARNING] analytics: Analytics consumer lag +30s \u2014 unrelated reporting batch.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.8 mem=29.7 err=0.0 latency=37.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.2 mem=24.5 err=0.0 latency=12.3\n- database: healthy cpu=30.2 mem=35.7 err=0.0 latency=26.5\n- worker: healthy cpu=21.4 mem=29.6 err=1.0 latency=52.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.24, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.943711+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "715f154e-c79a-4946-939d-0cb809656043", "scenario_id": "network_partition", "template_id": "network_partition", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 0, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker session-lookup p95 latency 4200ms; ~31% of session reads time out.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway is queueing on worker; user-facing 5xx climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache reports healthy from its own probes but inbound connection rate is near zero.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=39.0 mem=36.0 err=19.0 latency=510.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=14.0 mem=22.0 err=0.0 latency=9.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=24.0 mem=36.0 err=31.0 latency=4200.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-dns-pin 38 minutes ago (pinned discovery from DNS svc to hardcoded pod IP 10.42.7.4 'to reduce DNS lookups').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=39.0 mem=36.0 err=19.0 latency=510.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=14.0 mem=22.0 err=0.0 latency=9.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=24.0 mem=36.0 err=31.0 latency=4200.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker resolves cache via DNS-or-hardcoded-IP; cache deploy changed that resolution", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=39.0 mem=36.0 err=19.0 latency=510.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=14.0 mem=22.0 err=0.0 latency=9.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=24.0 mem=36.0 err=31.0 latency=4200.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Cache logs: process up, accepting connections on 6379, but inbound rate is 0.2/s vs baseline 1800/s. Last deploy cache@2026.04.25-dns-pin pinned the discovery target from svc DNS to a hardcoded pod IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=39.0 mem=36.0 err=19.0 latency=510.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=14.0 mem=22.0 err=0.0 latency=9.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=24.0 mem=36.0 err=31.0 latency=4200.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 31% \u2014 every error is a TCP i/o timeout to a single dead IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=39.0 mem=36.0 err=19.0 latency=510.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=14.0 mem=22.0 err=0.0 latency=9.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=24.0 mem=36.0 err=31.0 latency=4200.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"network_dns_partition\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "network_dns_partition", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=39.0 mem=36.0 err=19.0 latency=510.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=14.0 mem=22.0 err=0.0 latency=9.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=24.0 mem=36.0 err=31.0 latency=4200.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.1035, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=39.0 mem=36.0 err=19.0 latency=510.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=16.0 mem=24.0 err=2.0 latency=12.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.0 mem=33.0 err=1.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=24.0 mem=36.0 err=31.0 latency=4200.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=32.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=10.0\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=32.0 err=0.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=38.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=32.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=10.0\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=32.0 err=0.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=38.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=32.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=10.0\n- database: healthy cpu=28.0 mem=32.0 err=0.0 latency=22.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=38.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.944777+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "089438cf-5f61-41b7-8cfd-7bde8b09d796", "scenario_id": "network_partition__p01", "template_id": "network_partition", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 1, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker session-lookup p95 latency 4200ms; ~31% of session reads time out.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway is queueing on worker; user-facing 5xx climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache reports healthy from its own probes but inbound connection rate is near zero.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.5 mem=38.5 err=18.2 latency=485.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=22.8 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=35.4 err=1.0 latency=24.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=23.8 mem=35.7 err=31.4 latency=4383.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-cac83 7 minutes ago (pinned discovery from DNS svc to hardcoded pod IP 10.42.7.4 'to reduce DNS lookups').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.1 mem=39.2 err=18.8 latency=513.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=22.8 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=35.4 err=1.0 latency=24.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=38.2 err=31.6 latency=4464.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker resolves cache via DNS-or-hardcoded-IP; cache deploy changed that resolution", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.1 mem=39.2 err=18.8 latency=513.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=22.8 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=35.4 err=1.0 latency=24.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=38.2 err=31.6 latency=4464.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Cache logs: process up, accepting connections on 6379, but inbound rate is 0.2/s vs baseline 1800/s. Last deploy cache@2026.04.25-dns-pin pinned the discovery target from svc DNS to a hardcoded pod IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.1 mem=39.2 err=18.8 latency=513.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=22.8 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=35.4 err=1.0 latency=24.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=38.2 err=31.6 latency=4464.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 31% \u2014 every error is a TCP i/o timeout to a single dead IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.1 mem=39.2 err=18.8 latency=513.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=22.8 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=35.4 err=1.0 latency=24.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=38.2 err=31.6 latency=4464.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"network_dns_partition\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "network_dns_partition", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.1 mem=39.2 err=18.8 latency=513.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=22.8 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=35.4 err=1.0 latency=24.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=38.2 err=31.6 latency=4464.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.1035, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.1 mem=39.2 err=18.8 latency=513.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=14.8 mem=22.4 err=2.0 latency=11.8\n- database: healthy cpu=29.3 mem=35.4 err=1.0 latency=24.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=38.2 err=31.6 latency=4464.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=23.4 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=30.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=9.5\n- database: healthy cpu=30.1 mem=29.2 err=0.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.1 mem=32.3 err=1.0 latency=35.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=23.4 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=30.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=9.5\n- database: healthy cpu=30.1 mem=29.2 err=0.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.1 mem=32.3 err=1.0 latency=35.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=23.4 mem=25.8 err=0.0 latency=30.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.2 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=9.5\n- database: healthy cpu=30.1 mem=29.2 err=0.0 latency=24.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.1 mem=32.3 err=1.0 latency=35.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.945827+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "7f772ce1-dbb2-47f9-9ee7-e9075c5df47a", "scenario_id": "network_partition__p02", "template_id": "network_partition", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 2, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker session-lookup p95 latency 4200ms; ~31% of session reads time out.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway is queueing on worker; user-facing 5xx climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache reports healthy from its own probes but inbound connection rate is near zero.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=35.7 mem=36.4 err=19.9 latency=549.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=15.1 mem=23.2 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=27.9 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=23.1 mem=35.0 err=32.0 latency=3891.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-cac23 21 minutes ago (pinned discovery from DNS svc to hardcoded pod IP 10.42.7.4 'to reduce DNS lookups').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.7 mem=39.1 err=19.3 latency=522.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=15.1 mem=23.2 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=27.9 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=25.7 mem=39.0 err=33.0 latency=4079.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker resolves cache via DNS-or-hardcoded-IP; cache deploy changed that resolution", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.7 mem=39.1 err=19.3 latency=522.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=15.1 mem=23.2 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=27.9 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=25.7 mem=39.0 err=33.0 latency=4079.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Cache logs: process up, accepting connections on 6379, but inbound rate is 0.2/s vs baseline 1800/s. Last deploy cache@2026.04.25-dns-pin pinned the discovery target from svc DNS to a hardcoded pod IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.7 mem=39.1 err=19.3 latency=522.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=15.1 mem=23.2 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=27.9 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=25.7 mem=39.0 err=33.0 latency=4079.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 31% \u2014 every error is a TCP i/o timeout to a single dead IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.7 mem=39.1 err=19.3 latency=522.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=15.1 mem=23.2 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=27.9 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=25.7 mem=39.0 err=33.0 latency=4079.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"network_dns_partition\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "network_dns_partition", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.7 mem=39.1 err=19.3 latency=522.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=15.1 mem=23.2 err=0.0 latency=8.7\n- database: healthy cpu=27.9 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=25.7 mem=39.0 err=33.0 latency=4079.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.1035, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.7 mem=39.1 err=19.3 latency=522.0\n- cache: degraded cpu=16.1 mem=26.4 err=2.0 latency=12.0\n- database: healthy cpu=27.9 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=25.7 mem=39.0 err=33.0 latency=4079.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=23.3 mem=30.7 err=0.0 latency=31.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.4 mem=25.6 err=0.0 latency=10.4\n- database: healthy cpu=30.5 mem=32.6 err=0.0 latency=21.7\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=34.7 err=0.9 latency=36.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=23.3 mem=30.7 err=0.0 latency=31.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.4 mem=25.6 err=0.0 latency=10.4\n- database: healthy cpu=30.5 mem=32.6 err=0.0 latency=21.7\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=34.7 err=0.9 latency=36.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=23.3 mem=30.7 err=0.0 latency=31.3\n- cache: healthy cpu=19.4 mem=25.6 err=0.0 latency=10.4\n- database: healthy cpu=30.5 mem=32.6 err=0.0 latency=21.7\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=34.7 err=0.9 latency=36.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.946877+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "bb13ed8d-57bd-4a68-b4dd-8c0e6046e92e", "scenario_id": "network_partition__p03", "template_id": "network_partition", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 3, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker session-lookup p95 latency 4200ms; ~31% of session reads time out.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway is queueing on worker; user-facing 5xx climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache reports healthy from its own probes but inbound connection rate is near zero.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=38.2 mem=36.8 err=17.4 latency=494.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.2 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=9.3\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=24.7 mem=34.3 err=29.5 latency=4256.1\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-cac49 26 minutes ago (pinned discovery from DNS svc to hardcoded pod IP 10.42.7.4 'to reduce DNS lookups').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.5 mem=37.0 err=20.4 latency=484.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.2 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=9.3\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=26.3 mem=38.8 err=27.9 latency=4214.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker resolves cache via DNS-or-hardcoded-IP; cache deploy changed that resolution", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.5 mem=37.0 err=20.4 latency=484.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.2 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=9.3\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=26.3 mem=38.8 err=27.9 latency=4214.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Cache logs: process up, accepting connections on 6379, but inbound rate is 0.2/s vs baseline 1800/s. Last deploy cache@2026.04.25-dns-pin pinned the discovery target from svc DNS to a hardcoded pod IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.5 mem=37.0 err=20.4 latency=484.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.2 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=9.3\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=26.3 mem=38.8 err=27.9 latency=4214.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 31% \u2014 every error is a TCP i/o timeout to a single dead IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.5 mem=37.0 err=20.4 latency=484.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.2 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=9.3\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=26.3 mem=38.8 err=27.9 latency=4214.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"network_dns_partition\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "network_dns_partition", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.5 mem=37.0 err=20.4 latency=484.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.2 mem=24.2 err=0.0 latency=9.3\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=26.3 mem=38.8 err=27.9 latency=4214.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.1035, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=36.5 mem=37.0 err=20.4 latency=484.5\n- cache: degraded cpu=16.7 mem=22.6 err=2.0 latency=11.5\n- database: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=33.3 err=1.0 latency=23.7\n- worker: degraded cpu=26.3 mem=38.8 err=27.9 latency=4214.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=21.9 mem=30.3 err=0.0 latency=32.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.5 mem=26.8 err=0.0 latency=10.2\n- database: healthy cpu=28.5 mem=28.9 err=0.0 latency=20.3\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.6 mem=29.0 err=0.9 latency=41.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=21.9 mem=30.3 err=0.0 latency=32.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.5 mem=26.8 err=0.0 latency=10.2\n- database: healthy cpu=28.5 mem=28.9 err=0.0 latency=20.3\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.6 mem=29.0 err=0.9 latency=41.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=21.9 mem=30.3 err=0.0 latency=32.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.5 mem=26.8 err=0.0 latency=10.2\n- database: healthy cpu=28.5 mem=28.9 err=0.0 latency=20.3\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.6 mem=29.0 err=0.9 latency=41.7\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.947914+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "fd314622-524e-41cf-9876-509e83d019c2", "scenario_id": "network_partition__p04", "template_id": "network_partition", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 4, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker session-lookup p95 latency 4200ms; ~31% of session reads time out.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway is queueing on worker; user-facing 5xx climbing.\n- [WARNING] cache: Cache reports healthy from its own probes but inbound connection rate is near zero.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.5 mem=38.3 err=20.2 latency=490.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=20.4 err=0.0 latency=8.8\n- database: healthy cpu=26.9 mem=31.2 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=22.9 mem=36.9 err=28.0 latency=3924.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out cache@2026.04.25-cac46 9 minutes ago (pinned discovery from DNS svc to hardcoded pod IP 10.42.7.4 'to reduce DNS lookups').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.6 mem=34.9 err=18.5 latency=523.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=20.4 err=0.0 latency=8.8\n- database: healthy cpu=26.9 mem=31.2 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=36.9 err=27.9 latency=3856.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_dependencies\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_dependencies", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "worker resolves cache via DNS-or-hardcoded-IP; cache deploy changed that resolution", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.6 mem=34.9 err=18.5 latency=523.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=20.4 err=0.0 latency=8.8\n- database: healthy cpu=26.9 mem=31.2 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=36.9 err=27.9 latency=3856.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried dependencies for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "cache"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Cache logs: process up, accepting connections on 6379, but inbound rate is 0.2/s vs baseline 1800/s. Last deploy cache@2026.04.25-dns-pin pinned the discovery target from svc DNS to a hardcoded pod IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.6 mem=34.9 err=18.5 latency=523.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=20.4 err=0.0 latency=8.8\n- database: healthy cpu=26.9 mem=31.2 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=36.9 err=27.9 latency=3856.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for cache.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 31% \u2014 every error is a TCP i/o timeout to a single dead IP.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.6 mem=34.9 err=18.5 latency=523.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=20.4 err=0.0 latency=8.8\n- database: healthy cpu=26.9 mem=31.2 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=36.9 err=27.9 latency=3856.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"network_dns_partition\",\"affected_services\":[\"cache\",\"worker\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "network_dns_partition", "affected_services": ["cache", "worker", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.6 mem=34.9 err=18.5 latency=523.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=13.3 mem=20.4 err=0.0 latency=8.8\n- database: healthy cpu=26.9 mem=31.2 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=36.9 err=27.9 latency=3856.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.66\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.72\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.1035, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] cache: cache is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=41.6 mem=34.9 err=18.5 latency=523.4\n- cache: degraded cpu=17.3 mem=23.6 err=2.0 latency=11.6\n- database: healthy cpu=26.9 mem=31.2 err=1.0 latency=26.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=21.8 mem=36.9 err=27.9 latency=3856.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.30\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.34\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the cache deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"cache\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "cache"}, "reward": 0.3735, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.6 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=32.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.9 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=9.8\n- database: healthy cpu=30.2 mem=31.3 err=0.0 latency=22.4\n- worker: healthy cpu=23.6 mem=31.8 err=1.1 latency=36.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: cache restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.6 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=32.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.9 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=9.8\n- database: healthy cpu=30.2 mem=31.3 err=0.0 latency=22.4\n- worker: healthy cpu=23.6 mem=31.8 err=1.1 latency=36.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nA cache deploy changed the DNS bootstrap entry from cache.svc.cluster.local to 10.42.7.4 \u2014 but that IP belongs to an evicted pod. Cache is healthy in its own metrics (it's running, accepting connections from its own ClusterIP), but every other service in the topology can't reach it. The agent must trust the connectivity evidence over the service's own self-report \u2014 which is the entire point of the lesson. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] vercel-edge: Vercel edge cache eviction event \u2014 frontend-only, unrelated.\n- [WARNING] sessions-redis: sessions-redis latency +12ms \u2014 different cluster, unrelated.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.6 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=32.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.9 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=9.8\n- database: healthy cpu=30.2 mem=31.3 err=0.0 latency=22.4\n- worker: healthy cpu=23.6 mem=31.8 err=1.1 latency=36.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.10\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.949098+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "d3ffc872-7e4a-47e1-af7d-65f8e4f88cf5", "scenario_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm", "template_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 0, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker call rate to external dep is 30,000 RPM (baseline 600 RPM). 42% are returning 429.\n- [WARNING] database: Database open-transaction count up 8x. Many transactions waiting on external dep callbacks.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 720ms \u2014 every request waiting on worker waiting on external dep.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=44.0 mem=38.0 err=24.0 latency=720.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=71.0 mem=58.0 err=14.0 latency=380.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=92.0 mem=64.0 err=42.0 latency=5800.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-no-backoff 36 minutes ago (replaced exp-backoff retry policy with fixed 50ms interval; commit message: 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=44.0 mem=38.0 err=24.0 latency=720.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=71.0 mem=58.0 err=14.0 latency=380.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=92.0 mem=64.0 err=42.0 latency=5800.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: '429 Too Many Requests' every ~50ms; retry count climbing without backoff. Retry policy was changed in worker@2026.04.25-no-backoff 36 minutes ago (removed exponential backoff in favor of fixed 50ms interval to 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=44.0 mem=38.0 err=24.0 latency=720.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=71.0 mem=58.0 err=14.0 latency=380.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=92.0 mem=64.0 err=42.0 latency=5800.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 42% \u2014 every error is a 429 from external dep that the retry loop is amplifying.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=44.0 mem=38.0 err=24.0 latency=720.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=71.0 mem=58.0 err=14.0 latency=380.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=92.0 mem=64.0 err=42.0 latency=5800.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database latency is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=44.0 mem=38.0 err=24.0 latency=720.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=71.0 mem=58.0 err=14.0 latency=380.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=92.0 mem=64.0 err=42.0 latency=5800.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"external_rate_limit_storm\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "external_rate_limit_storm", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=44.0 mem=38.0 err=24.0 latency=720.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=71.0 mem=58.0 err=14.0 latency=380.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=92.0 mem=64.0 err=42.0 latency=5800.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.212, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=44.0 mem=38.0 err=24.0 latency=720.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: degraded cpu=71.0 mem=58.0 err=14.0 latency=380.0\n- worker: degraded cpu=38.0 mem=42.0 err=4.0 latency=180.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.40\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.44\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.4045, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=38.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=32.0 mem=38.0 err=0.0 latency=28.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=60.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=38.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=32.0 mem=38.0 err=0.0 latency=28.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=60.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=24.0 mem=28.0 err=0.0 latency=38.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=24.0 err=0.0 latency=14.0\n- database: healthy cpu=32.0 mem=38.0 err=0.0 latency=28.0\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.0 mem=32.0 err=1.0 latency=60.0\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.950170+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "4a8d88d3-12cc-46a4-be4e-16859019f764", "scenario_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm__p01", "template_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 1, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker call rate to external dep is 30,000 RPM (baseline 600 RPM). 42% are returning 429.\n- [WARNING] database: Database open-transaction count up 8x. Many transactions waiting on external dep callbacks.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 720ms \u2014 every request waiting on worker waiting on external dep.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=43.1 mem=41.2 err=22.6 latency=717.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=64.2 mem=60.4 err=14.3 latency=413.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=98.9 mem=67.8 err=43.6 latency=5276.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-wor52 26 minutes ago (replaced exp-backoff retry policy with fixed 50ms interval; commit message: 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.3 mem=34.8 err=23.6 latency=734.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=67.3 mem=56.9 err=12.9 latency=380.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=94.5 mem=67.4 err=41.5 latency=5358.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: '429 Too Many Requests' every ~50ms; retry count climbing without backoff. Retry policy was changed in worker@2026.04.25-no-backoff 36 minutes ago (removed exponential backoff in favor of fixed 50ms interval to 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.3 mem=34.8 err=23.6 latency=734.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=67.3 mem=56.9 err=12.9 latency=380.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=94.5 mem=67.4 err=41.5 latency=5358.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 42% \u2014 every error is a 429 from external dep that the retry loop is amplifying.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.3 mem=34.8 err=23.6 latency=734.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=67.3 mem=56.9 err=12.9 latency=380.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=94.5 mem=67.4 err=41.5 latency=5358.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database latency is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.3 mem=34.8 err=23.6 latency=734.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=67.3 mem=56.9 err=12.9 latency=380.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=94.5 mem=67.4 err=41.5 latency=5358.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"external_rate_limit_storm\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "external_rate_limit_storm", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.3 mem=34.8 err=23.6 latency=734.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=67.3 mem=56.9 err=12.9 latency=380.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=94.5 mem=67.4 err=41.5 latency=5358.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.212, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=46.3 mem=34.8 err=23.6 latency=734.5\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=67.3 mem=56.9 err=12.9 latency=380.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=38.5 mem=45.8 err=3.6 latency=175.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.40\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.44\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.4045, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.1 mem=27.0 err=0.0 latency=41.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: healthy cpu=30.0 mem=34.7 err=0.0 latency=28.2\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.5 mem=34.1 err=1.0 latency=64.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.1 mem=27.0 err=0.0 latency=41.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: healthy cpu=30.0 mem=34.7 err=0.0 latency=28.2\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.5 mem=34.1 err=1.0 latency=64.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 1 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=26.1 mem=27.0 err=0.0 latency=41.7\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.0 mem=25.9 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: healthy cpu=30.0 mem=34.7 err=0.0 latency=28.2\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.5 mem=34.1 err=1.0 latency=64.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.951179+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "3aead139-7478-467d-b78f-43ec7a99742d", "scenario_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm__p02", "template_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 2, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker call rate to external dep is 30,000 RPM (baseline 600 RPM). 42% are returning 429.\n- [WARNING] database: Database open-transaction count up 8x. Many transactions waiting on external dep callbacks.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 720ms \u2014 every request waiting on worker waiting on external dep.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.6 mem=38.3 err=26.1 latency=739.4\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=68.5 mem=54.8 err=13.5 latency=346.9\n- worker: degraded cpu=93.2 mem=67.3 err=43.0 latency=5525.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-wor70 8 minutes ago (replaced exp-backoff retry policy with fixed 50ms interval; commit message: 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.5 mem=40.3 err=24.7 latency=683.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=74.1 mem=53.4 err=12.9 latency=377.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.7 mem=65.6 err=46.2 latency=6008.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: '429 Too Many Requests' every ~50ms; retry count climbing without backoff. Retry policy was changed in worker@2026.04.25-no-backoff 36 minutes ago (removed exponential backoff in favor of fixed 50ms interval to 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.5 mem=40.3 err=24.7 latency=683.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=74.1 mem=53.4 err=12.9 latency=377.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.7 mem=65.6 err=46.2 latency=6008.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 42% \u2014 every error is a 429 from external dep that the retry loop is amplifying.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.5 mem=40.3 err=24.7 latency=683.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=74.1 mem=53.4 err=12.9 latency=377.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.7 mem=65.6 err=46.2 latency=6008.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database latency is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.5 mem=40.3 err=24.7 latency=683.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=74.1 mem=53.4 err=12.9 latency=377.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.7 mem=65.6 err=46.2 latency=6008.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"external_rate_limit_storm\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "external_rate_limit_storm", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.5 mem=40.3 err=24.7 latency=683.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=74.1 mem=53.4 err=12.9 latency=377.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.7 mem=65.6 err=46.2 latency=6008.4\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.212, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=40.5 mem=40.3 err=24.7 latency=683.1\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: degraded cpu=74.1 mem=53.4 err=12.9 latency=377.4\n- worker: degraded cpu=36.6 mem=42.8 err=4.3 latency=175.2\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.40\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.44\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.4045, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=22.1 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=38.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=35.0 mem=35.6 err=0.0 latency=25.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.9 mem=31.0 err=1.0 latency=65.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=22.1 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=38.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=35.0 mem=35.6 err=0.0 latency=25.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.9 mem=31.0 err=1.0 latency=65.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 2 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=22.1 mem=26.6 err=0.0 latency=38.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=17.6 mem=26.1 err=0.0 latency=13.0\n- database: healthy cpu=35.0 mem=35.6 err=0.0 latency=25.8\n- worker: healthy cpu=24.9 mem=31.0 err=1.0 latency=65.6\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.952169+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "70a1129d-b7d6-4ff4-b386-1259037c1a69", "scenario_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm__p03", "template_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 3, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker call rate to external dep is 30,000 RPM (baseline 600 RPM). 42% are returning 429.\n- [WARNING] database: Database open-transaction count up 8x. Many transactions waiting on external dep callbacks.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 720ms \u2014 every request waiting on worker waiting on external dep.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.7 mem=37.7 err=24.0 latency=661.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=68.4 mem=62.2 err=14.0 latency=396.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=100.0 mem=63.6 err=41.9 latency=5745.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-wor90 18 minutes ago (replaced exp-backoff retry policy with fixed 50ms interval; commit message: 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.0 mem=38.2 err=25.1 latency=723.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=74.0 mem=54.8 err=13.8 latency=413.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.5 mem=67.1 err=44.8 latency=6367.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: '429 Too Many Requests' every ~50ms; retry count climbing without backoff. Retry policy was changed in worker@2026.04.25-no-backoff 36 minutes ago (removed exponential backoff in favor of fixed 50ms interval to 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.0 mem=38.2 err=25.1 latency=723.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=74.0 mem=54.8 err=13.8 latency=413.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.5 mem=67.1 err=44.8 latency=6367.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 42% \u2014 every error is a 429 from external dep that the retry loop is amplifying.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.0 mem=38.2 err=25.1 latency=723.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=74.0 mem=54.8 err=13.8 latency=413.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.5 mem=67.1 err=44.8 latency=6367.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database latency is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.0 mem=38.2 err=25.1 latency=723.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=74.0 mem=54.8 err=13.8 latency=413.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.5 mem=67.1 err=44.8 latency=6367.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"external_rate_limit_storm\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "external_rate_limit_storm", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.0 mem=38.2 err=25.1 latency=723.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=74.0 mem=54.8 err=13.8 latency=413.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=95.5 mem=67.1 err=44.8 latency=6367.8\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.212, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=45.0 mem=38.2 err=25.1 latency=723.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: degraded cpu=74.0 mem=54.8 err=13.8 latency=413.5\n- worker: degraded cpu=40.0 mem=39.9 err=4.1 latency=197.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.40\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.44\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.4045, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=23.2 mem=29.2 err=0.0 latency=40.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: healthy cpu=34.6 mem=39.9 err=0.0 latency=29.4\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=57.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=23.2 mem=29.2 err=0.0 latency=40.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: healthy cpu=34.6 mem=39.9 err=0.0 latency=29.4\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=57.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 3 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=23.2 mem=29.2 err=0.0 latency=40.0\n- cache: healthy cpu=16.4 mem=21.8 err=0.0 latency=12.8\n- database: healthy cpu=34.6 mem=39.9 err=0.0 latency=29.4\n- worker: healthy cpu=27.3 mem=31.6 err=1.0 latency=57.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.953145+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}
{"episode_id": "44e61072-d414-4dea-8a8e-ff4636c70463", "scenario_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm__p04", "template_id": "rate_limit_retry_storm", "model": "claude-expert-scripted", "driver": "scripted", "seed": 4, "difficulty": "hard", "final_score": 0.9403, "incident_resolved": true, "steps": 10, "elapsed_s": 0.001, "score_breakdown": {"outcome": 1.0, "action_validity": 1.0, "format": 1.0, "anticheat": 1.0, "efficiency": 0.4029, "final_score": 0.9403, "recovery_score": 0.0, "containment_score": 0.0, "verification_score": 0.0, "impact_score": 0.0, "efficiency_score": 0.0, "speed_bonus": 0.0, "noise_handling_score": 0.0}, "trajectory": [{"tick": 1, "prompt": "TICK 0/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [CRITICAL] worker: Worker call rate to external dep is 30,000 RPM (baseline 600 RPM). 42% are returning 429.\n- [WARNING] database: Database open-transaction count up 8x. Many transactions waiting on external dep callbacks.\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: Gateway p95 720ms \u2014 every request waiting on worker waiting on external dep.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=44.6 mem=39.0 err=23.1 latency=741.8\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: degraded cpu=71.3 mem=58.8 err=12.8 latency=415.2\n- worker: degraded cpu=100.0 mem=69.9 err=43.9 latency=5723.3\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: none\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_deploys\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_deploys", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Rolled out worker@2026.04.25-wor29 15 minutes ago (replaced exp-backoff retry policy with fixed 50ms interval; commit message: 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 2, "prompt": "TICK 1/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.9 mem=34.8 err=22.2 latency=753.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: degraded cpu=64.2 mem=52.5 err=15.2 latency=405.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=100.0 mem=63.1 err=46.0 latency=5256.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried deploy history for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_logs\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_logs", "service": "worker"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker logs: '429 Too Many Requests' every ~50ms; retry count climbing without backoff. Retry policy was changed in worker@2026.04.25-no-backoff 36 minutes ago (removed exponential backoff in favor of fixed 50ms interval to 'reduce p99 tail latency').", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 3, "prompt": "TICK 2/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.9 mem=34.8 err=22.2 latency=753.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: degraded cpu=64.2 mem=52.5 err=15.2 latency=405.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=100.0 mem=63.1 err=46.0 latency=5256.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried logs for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"worker\",\"metric\":\"error_rate\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "worker", "metric": "error_rate"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Worker error rate 42% \u2014 every error is a 429 from external dep that the retry loop is amplifying.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 4, "prompt": "TICK 3/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.9 mem=34.8 err=22.2 latency=753.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: degraded cpu=64.2 mem=52.5 err=15.2 latency=405.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=100.0 mem=63.1 err=46.0 latency=5256.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried error_rate for worker.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"query_metrics\",\"service\":\"database\",\"metric\":\"latency\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "query_metrics", "service": "database", "metric": "latency"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "database latency is at baseline (no incident-correlated movement); the active fault doesn't surface on this metric.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 5, "prompt": "TICK 4/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.9 mem=34.8 err=22.2 latency=753.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: degraded cpu=64.2 mem=52.5 err=15.2 latency=405.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=100.0 mem=63.1 err=46.0 latency=5256.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Queried latency for database.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"submit_hypothesis\",\"hypothesis\":{\"root_cause\":\"external_rate_limit_storm\",\"affected_services\":[\"worker\",\"database\",\"api-gateway\"],\"confidence\":0.85,\"recommended_next_action\":\"rollback_deploy\"}}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "submit_hypothesis", "hypothesis": {"root_cause": "external_rate_limit_storm", "affected_services": ["worker", "database", "api-gateway"], "confidence": 0.85, "recommended_next_action": "rollback_deploy"}}, "reward": 0.11, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "triage"}, {"tick": 6, "prompt": "TICK 5/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: triage\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.9 mem=34.8 err=22.2 latency=753.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: degraded cpu=64.2 mem=52.5 err=15.2 latency=405.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=100.0 mem=63.1 err=46.0 latency=5256.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.74\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.80\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Hypothesis recorded. Reward reflects root-cause accuracy, service localization, confidence calibration, and next-action quality.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"rollback_deploy\",\"service\":\"worker\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "rollback_deploy", "service": "worker"}, "reward": 0.212, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 7, "prompt": "TICK 6/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- [WARNING] api-gateway: api-gateway is degraded.\n- [WARNING] database: database is degraded.\n- [WARNING] worker: worker is degraded.\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: degraded cpu=42.9 mem=34.8 err=22.2 latency=753.2\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: degraded cpu=64.2 mem=52.5 err=15.2 latency=405.1\n- worker: degraded cpu=38.5 mem=38.1 err=4.4 latency=163.5\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.40\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.44\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Rolled back the worker deploy; the underlying cause is removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"restart_service\",\"service\":\"database\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "restart_service", "service": "database"}, "reward": 0.4045, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "mitigation"}, {"tick": 8, "prompt": "TICK 7/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: mitigation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=22.4 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=39.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: healthy cpu=30.4 mem=40.3 err=0.0 latency=28.9\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.4 mem=30.2 err=0.9 latency=55.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: database restarted cleanly after the triggering cause was removed.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: pending - Database recovery has not been verified yet.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"database_recovery\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "database_recovery"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "Database is healthy and no longer failing.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 9, "prompt": "TICK 8/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=22.4 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=39.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: healthy cpu=30.4 mem=40.3 err=0.0 latency=28.9\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.4 mem=30.2 err=0.9 latency=55.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran database_recovery check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: pending - End-to-end health has not been verified yet.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"run_check\",\"check_name\":\"end_to_end\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "run_check", "check_name": "end_to_end"}, "reward": -0.01, "tool_output": "End-to-end login traffic is healthy.", "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "validation"}, {"tick": 10, "prompt": "TICK 9/13\nWORKFLOW_STAGE: validation\n\nINCIDENT_SUMMARY:\nWorker calls an external dependency (a payment processor / OpenAI API) and a recent deploy removed exponential backoff in favor of immediate fixed-interval retries. The dep started 429-throttling 30 minutes ago and the retries are amplifying the backlog. Database is degraded because every retry leaves an open transaction. The agent must recognize that *more retries = more failure* and that the deploy regressed retry policy. Variant 4 reshuffles timing and distractor noise.\n\nACTIVE_ALERTS:\n- none\n\nNOISE_ALERTS (historically unrelated \u2014 resist querying these):\n- [WARNING] sentry: Sentry release-health alert: error rate +200% on latest worker release (downstream signal).\n- [WARNING] openai-proxy: OpenAI proxy 429 rate +400% \u2014 mostly *symptom* of the worker retry storm hitting upstream.\n\nSERVICES:\n- api-gateway: healthy cpu=22.4 mem=26.0 err=0.0 latency=39.9\n- cache: healthy cpu=18.5 mem=22.5 err=0.0 latency=15.2\n- database: healthy cpu=30.4 mem=40.3 err=0.0 latency=28.9\n- worker: healthy cpu=26.4 mem=30.2 err=0.9 latency=55.9\n\nUSER_IMPACT: 0.12\nSLO_BURN_RATE: 0.14\nLAST_ACTION_RESULT: Ran end_to_end check.\nTOOL_OUTPUT: none\nFAILURE_TYPE: none\nWHY_FAILED: none\n\nCHECKS:\n- database_recovery: passed - Database is healthy and no longer failing.\n- end_to_end: passed - End-to-end login traffic is healthy.\n\nALLOWED_ACTIONS:\n- query_logs\n- query_metrics\n- query_dependencies\n- query_deploys\n- rollback_deploy\n- restart_service\n- run_check\n- isolate_service\n- escalate\n- submit_hypothesis\n- declare_resolved", "response_text": "{\"metadata\":{},\"action_type\":\"declare_resolved\"}", "action": {"metadata": {}, "action_type": "declare_resolved"}, "reward": 0.29, "tool_output": null, "failure_type": null, "workflow_stage": "resolved"}], "collection_timestamp": "2026-04-25T22:18:09.954175+00:00", "collection_batch": "expert_scripted_20260425", "quality_tier": "expert"}