Investigate Issues

Research identified issues from a LearningAgent session to determine their root causes.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS is the path to the session log folder (e.g., .deepwork/tmp/agent_sessions/<session_id>/<agent_id>/).

Context

Session log folder structure: !cat learning_agents/doc/learning_log_folder_structure.md 2>/dev/null

Agent used: !cat $ARGUMENTS/agent_used 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown"

Identified issues to investigate: !grep -l 'status: identified' $ARGUMENTS/*.issue.yml 2>/dev/null || echo "(none)"

Additional investigation guidelines: !learning_agents/scripts/cat_agent_guideline.sh $ARGUMENTS issue_investigation

Current Agent State

-------- CURRENT KNOWLEDGE OF AGENT -------- !learning_agents/scripts/generate_agent_instructions_for_session.sh $ARGUMENTS ------ END CURRENT KNOWLEDGE OF AGENT-------

Procedure

If no identified issues are listed above, report that and stop.

Refer back to the conversation_transcript.jsonl file as needed in this process.

Step 1: Investigate Each Issue

For each issue file with status identified:

1. Read the issue file to understand what went wrong
2. Search the transcript for relevant sections — grep for keywords from issue_description or locate lines near seen_at_timestamps
3. Determine root cause using this taxonomy:
   • Knowledge gap: Missing or incomplete content in core-knowledge.md
   • Missing documentation: A topic file does not exist or lacks needed detail
   • Incorrect instruction: An existing instruction leads the agent to wrong behavior
   • Missing runtime context: Information that should have been injected at runtime was absent

Step 2: Update Issue Files

For each investigated issue, use Edit to update the issue file:

1. Change status: identified to status: investigated
2. Add the investigation_report field:

status: investigated
investigation_report: |
  <Root cause analysis with specific transcript line numbers as evidence.
  Explain what knowledge gap or instruction deficiency caused the issue.>

Step 3: Summary

Simply say "Session log folder done."

Guardrails

• Do NOT modify the agent's knowledge base — that is the incorporate step's job
• Do NOT change the issue_description — only add the investigation_report
• Do NOT skip issues — investigate every identified issue
• Be specific about evidence — reference transcript line numbers