Write the problem hypothesis
For [operator], the workflow fails during [condition], forcing [recovery work] and costing [time, money or trust].
You can name one user, one situation and one measurable consequence without proposing a feature.[BUG] Install fails (CachyOS, fish)
Evidence observed in darrenhinde/OpenAgentsControl, a Coding project.
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REPEATED ACROSS 4 PROJECTS
Related friction appears in 4 independent repositories. This is stronger than one backlog item, but still requires direct user validation.
Project strength and demand confidence are measured separately.SOURCE EVIDENCE
Read original GitHub Issue ↗Start with what users actually said
Reporter context: Description On one else seems to have an issue, so I'm assuming its on my side. I downloaded the script and ran it. I've tried both the 'local' and 'global' options with the same result. I've used fish (default) as well as bash to try the installation, same result. Steps to Reproduce curl -fsSL [link] -o install.sh…Excerpted from the public Issue. Read the complete thread before interpreting it.
Recruit: Recruit contributors who can replay the problem in a representative repository and development environment.
Guardrail: Use a fixed test case and compare completion, regressions and recovery against the unchanged baseline.
Interview five developers or engineering leads
- Show me the last failure and its logs.
- What triggered it and how often does it recur?
- How do you detect it today?
- What does recovery require?
- What would a safe failure look like?
Run the smallest experiment
Add one narrow guardrail, retry or recovery path around the failing step. Replay three real failure cases and compare recovery time.
The same failure is recovered faster in three real cases without creating a new incident.Use a fixed test case and compare completion, regressions and recovery against the unchanged baseline.Make a build decision
- Build: repeated pain and active commitment
- Narrow: pain is real but the audience or job differs
- Stop: weak frequency or no behavioral proof
Why this brief exists
Information has value only when it changes action. This page turns one public signal into a bounded validation exercise. It is a research aid, not proof of demand, investment advice or a product recommendation.