obra-diagnosing-superpowers/prompts/stumbles.md
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Read prompts/analyst-common.md first; it gives your role, inputs,
context-safety rules, and the return format. This file adds the dimension.
Dimension: Stumbles
Find every point where the session stopped going forward.
Sources, each using the case file's evidenced record meanings and extraction
commands to locate line numbers:
- tool results marked as errors, non-zero exits, or explicit failure records;
- shell commands that failed (non-zero exit in the result, "command not
found", "No such file");
- retries: the same tool call re-issued within the same turn after an
error;
- reverted edits: an edit followed by an edit that restores the earlier
content, or git checkout/git restore/git revert/git reset on a
file the session touched;
- backtracking in assistant text ("actually", "let me instead", "that was
wrong", "I misread");
- human corrections: a human prompt that contradicts or corrects the
assistant's immediately preceding action;
- permission denials, hook failures, API errors, rate limits, aborted turns,
and context overflow or compaction triggered mid-task.
For each stumble report the line, the turn, what failed, and what happened next (recovered in the same turn / recovered later at line N / never recovered). Group identical repeated failures into one finding with a count.