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          "action": "inspect_metrics(web_server)",
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          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": 0.1,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
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          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_config(database, max_connections)",
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          "summary": "Inspected config for database."
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          "action": "inspect_config(web_server)",
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          "summary": "Inspected config for web_server."
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          "action": "inspect_config(cache)",
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          "summary": "Updated cache config TTL_SECONDS."
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          "reward": 0.1,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
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        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_logs(database)",
          "reward": 0.1,
          "summary": "Inspected logs for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_config(database)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected config for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "update_config(database, INDEX_ORDERS_USER_ID, True)",
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          "summary": "Updated database config INDEX_ORDERS_USER_ID."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
        },
        {
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          "summary": "Resolution rejected."
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          "summary": "Inspected metrics for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_config(web_server)",
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          "summary": "Inspected config for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "update_config(web_server, MAX_WORKERS, 64)",
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          "summary": "Updated web_server config MAX_WORKERS."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(web_server)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "restart_service(web_server)",
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          "summary": "Restarted web_server, but the incident persists."
        },
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          "summary": "Resolution rejected."
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    {
      "task_id": "cache_eviction_storm",
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        "remediation_actions": 2,
        "wrong_remediations": 1,
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        "success": false,
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          "action": "inspect_metrics(cache)",
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          "summary": "Inspected metrics for cache."
        },
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          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_config(cache)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected config for cache."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "update_config(cache, MAX_MEMORY_MB, 1024)",
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          "summary": "Updated cache config MAX_MEMORY_MB."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(cache)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for cache."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "inspect_config(cache)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected config for cache."
        },
        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "restart_service(cache)",
          "reward": -0.15000000000000002,
          "summary": "Restarted cache, but the incident persists."
        },
        {
          "step": 7,
          "action": "resolve_incident(cache memory limit below working set, increased MAX_MEMORY_MB to 1024)",
          "reward": 0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Resolution rejected."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "task_id": "db_query_timeout_low",
      "metrics": {
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        "invalid_actions": 0,
        "repeated_actions": 0,
        "evidence_actions": 1,
        "remediation_actions": 2,
        "wrong_remediations": 1,
        "distractor_failures": 0,
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        "success": true,
        "final_reward": 0.6625
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      "trajectory": [
        {
          "step": 1,
          "action": "inspect_logs(web_server)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected logs for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_config(web_server)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected config for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "update_config(web_server, TIMEOUT_MS, 5000)",
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          "summary": "Updated web_server config, but the incident persists."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "inspect_config(database)",
          "reward": 0.1,
          "summary": "Inspected config for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "update_config(database, QUERY_TIMEOUT_MS, 5000)",
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        },
        {
          "step": 7,
          "action": "resolve_incident(Database QUERY_TIMEOUT_MS was too low for normal reporting queries, Increased database QUERY_TIMEOUT_MS from 1000ms to 5000ms)",
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          "summary": "Incident resolved."
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    {
      "task_id": "load_balancer_connection_limit_low",
      "metrics": {
        "total_steps": 4,
        "invalid_actions": 0,
        "repeated_actions": 1,
        "evidence_actions": 2,
        "remediation_actions": 1,
        "wrong_remediations": 1,
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        "premature_resolutions": 0,
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        "final_reward": 0
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      "trajectory": [
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          "reward": 0.1,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_config(load_balancer)",
          "reward": 0.1,
          "summary": "Inspected config for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "update_config(load_balancer, MAX_CONNECTIONS, 1000)",
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          "summary": "Updated load_balancer config, but the incident persists."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(load_balancer)",
          "reward": -0.05000000000000002,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for load_balancer."
        }
      ],
      "agent_error": "RuntimeError: Unexpected message content type: NoneType"
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    {
      "task_id": "message_queue_retry_limit_low",
      "metrics": {
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        "invalid_actions": 0,
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        "evidence_actions": 2,
        "remediation_actions": 1,
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          "action": "inspect_logs(message_queue)",
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        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_config(message_queue)",
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          "summary": "Inspected config for message_queue."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "update_config(message_queue, RETRY_LIMIT, 5)",
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          "summary": "Updated message_queue config RETRY_LIMIT."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_config(message_queue, RETRY_LIMIT)",
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          "summary": "Inspected config for message_queue."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "resolve_incident(RETRY_LIMIT was set too low causing payment jobs to dead-letter after one transient failure, Updated message_queue RETRY_LIMIT from 1 to 5)",
          "reward": 0.48750000000000004,
          "summary": "Incident resolved."
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      ]
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    {
      "task_id": "load_balancer_sticky_session_hotspot",
      "metrics": {
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        "evidence_actions": 2,
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        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_config(load_balancer)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected config for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(web_server)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "update_config(load_balancer, STICKY_SESSIONS, False)",
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          "summary": "Updated load_balancer config STICKY_SESSIONS."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(load_balancer)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "inspect_config(load_balancer, STICKY_SESSIONS)",
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          "summary": "Inspected config for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 7,
          "action": "resolve_incident(sticky sessions caused severe load balancer backend traffic skew and overloaded one web backend, disabled STICKY_SESSIONS on the load balancer)",
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          "summary": "Incident resolved."
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      ]
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    {
      "task_id": "message_queue_visibility_timeout_low",
      "metrics": {
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        "repeated_actions": 1,
        "evidence_actions": 3,
        "remediation_actions": 1,
        "wrong_remediations": 0,
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        "premature_resolutions": 1,
        "success": false,
        "final_reward": 0.2
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          "action": "inspect_metrics(message_queue)",
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        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_config(message_queue)",
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        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_logs(message_queue)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666668,
          "summary": "Inspected logs for message_queue."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "update_config(message_queue, VISIBILITY_TIMEOUT_MS, 30000)",
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          "summary": "Updated message_queue config VISIBILITY_TIMEOUT_MS."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(message_queue)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for message_queue."
        },
        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "inspect_config(message_queue, VISIBILITY_TIMEOUT_MS)",
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          "summary": "Inspected config for message_queue."
        },
        {
          "step": 7,
          "action": "resolve_incident(visibility timeout was too low causing messages to become visible before worker ack, increased VISIBILITY_TIMEOUT_MS from 5000 to 30000)",
          "reward": -0.2,
          "summary": "Resolution rejected."
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      ]
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      "task_id": "web_timeout_misconfig",
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        "repeated_actions": 1,
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        "remediation_actions": 2,
        "wrong_remediations": 1,
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        "final_reward": 0.7
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          "summary": "Inspected metrics for web_server."
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          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_logs(web_server)",
          "reward": 0.1,
          "summary": "Inspected logs for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_config(web_server)",
          "reward": 0.1,
          "summary": "Inspected config for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "update_config(web_server, TIMEOUT_MS, 5000)",
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          "summary": "Updated web_server config TIMEOUT_MS."
        },
        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(web_server)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 7,
          "action": "restart_service(web_server)",
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          "summary": "Restarted web_server, but the incident persists."
        },
        {
          "step": 8,
          "action": "resolve_incident(web_server TIMEOUT_MS misconfigured to 1000ms causing database upstream timeouts, increased web_server TIMEOUT_MS to 5000ms)",
          "reward": 0.44999999999999996,
          "summary": "Incident resolved."
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      ]
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    {
      "task_id": "misleading_web_500_db_rootcause",
      "metrics": {
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        "remediation_actions": 2,
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        "final_reward": 0.7
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          "reward": 0.1,
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        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": 0.1,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_config(database, max_connections)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected config for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_config(database)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected config for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "update_config(database, DB_POOL_SIZE, 200)",
          "reward": 0.25,
          "summary": "Updated database config DB_POOL_SIZE."
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        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 7,
          "action": "restart_service(database)",
          "reward": -0.15000000000000002,
          "summary": "Restarted database, but the incident persists."
        },
        {
          "step": 8,
          "action": "resolve_incident(database connection pool saturation, increased database DB_POOL_SIZE from 100 to 200)",
          "reward": 0.44999999999999996,
          "summary": "Incident resolved."
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    {
      "task_id": "web_cache_host_misconfig",
      "metrics": {
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        "evidence_actions": 3,
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        "final_reward": 0.4
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          "action": "inspect_logs(web_server)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
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          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_config(web_server)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected config for web_server."
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        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_config(cache)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected config for cache."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "check_status(cache)",
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          "summary": "cache status is healthy."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "inspect_logs(cache)",
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          "summary": "Inspected logs for cache."
        },
        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(cache)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666668,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for cache."
        },
        {
          "step": 7,
          "action": "update_config(web_server, CACHE_HOST, cache.internal)",
          "reward": 0.25,
          "summary": "Updated web_server config CACHE_HOST."
        },
        {
          "step": 8,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(web_server)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for web_server."
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        {
          "step": 9,
          "action": "Thought: The root cause was confirmed and the config fix applied; I’ll resolve",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
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      "task_id": "cascading_db_latency",
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        "invalid_actions": 0,
        "repeated_actions": 1,
        "evidence_actions": 2,
        "remediation_actions": 1,
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      "trajectory": [
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          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
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          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
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        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_logs(database)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected logs for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_config(database)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected config for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "update_config(database, READ_REPLICA_ENABLED, True)",
          "reward": 0.24999999999999997,
          "summary": "Updated database config READ_REPLICA_ENABLED."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "resolve_incident(read_replica_disabled_causing_database_read_saturation, enabled_READ_REPLICA_ENABLED)",
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          "summary": "Resolution rejected."
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    {
      "task_id": "cache_disabled_config_regression",
      "metrics": {
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          "action": "inspect_config(web_server)",
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          "summary": "Inspected config for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "update_config(web_server, USE_CACHE, True)",
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          "summary": "Updated web_server config USE_CACHE."
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        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(cache)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666665,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for cache."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_config(web_server, USE_CACHE)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected config for web_server."
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          "step": 5,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666671,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
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        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "inspect_logs(web_server)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected logs for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 7,
          "action": "restart_service(web_server)",
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        },
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          "step": 8,
          "action": "resolve_incident(cache disabled by web_server USE_CACHE=false config regression, restored web_server USE_CACHE=true)",
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          "summary": "Incident resolved."
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      ]
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          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
        },
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          "step": 3,
          "action": "inspect_logs(database)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected logs for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_config(database)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected config for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "update_config(database, READ_REPLICA_ENABLED, True)",
          "reward": 0.24999999999999997,
          "summary": "Updated database config READ_REPLICA_ENABLED."
        },
        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(database)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for database."
        },
        {
          "step": 7,
          "action": "resolve_incident(database read replica disabled causing primary read saturation and slow queue workers, re-enabled READ_REPLICA_ENABLED on database)",
          "reward": 0.46249999999999997,
          "summary": "Incident resolved."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "task_id": "misleading_lb_502_cache_rootcause",
      "metrics": {
        "total_steps": 5,
        "invalid_actions": 0,
        "repeated_actions": 0,
        "evidence_actions": 3,
        "remediation_actions": 1,
        "wrong_remediations": 0,
        "distractor_failures": 0,
        "premature_resolutions": 0,
        "success": true,
        "final_reward": 0.9375
      },
      "evidence_coverage": 1,
      "trajectory": [
        {
          "step": 1,
          "action": "inspect_logs(load_balancer)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected logs for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_logs(web_server)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected logs for web_server."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "check_status(cache)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666668,
          "summary": "cache status is crashed."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "restart_service(cache)",
          "reward": 0.25,
          "summary": "Restarted cache."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "resolve_incident(cache crashed causing web_server cache connection refusals and load_balancer 502s, restarted cache service)",
          "reward": 0.4875,
          "summary": "Incident resolved."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "task_id": "load_balancer_bad_backend_weight",
      "metrics": {
        "total_steps": 6,
        "invalid_actions": 0,
        "repeated_actions": 1,
        "evidence_actions": 2,
        "remediation_actions": 1,
        "wrong_remediations": 0,
        "distractor_failures": 0,
        "premature_resolutions": 1,
        "success": false,
        "final_reward": 0.3833333333333333
      },
      "evidence_coverage": 0.6666666666666666,
      "trajectory": [
        {
          "step": 1,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(load_balancer)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 2,
          "action": "inspect_config(load_balancer)",
          "reward": 0.06666666666666667,
          "summary": "Inspected config for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 3,
          "action": "update_config(load_balancer, WEB_WEIGHT_PRIMARY, 50)",
          "reward": 0.24999999999999997,
          "summary": "Updated load_balancer config WEB_WEIGHT_PRIMARY."
        },
        {
          "step": 4,
          "action": "inspect_metrics(load_balancer)",
          "reward": -0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Inspected metrics for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 5,
          "action": "inspect_config(load_balancer, WEB_WEIGHT_PRIMARY)",
          "reward": 0,
          "summary": "Inspected config for load_balancer."
        },
        {
          "step": 6,
          "action": "resolve_incident(load_balancer WEB_WEIGHT_PRIMARY was set to 100 causing all traffic to primary backend, set WEB_WEIGHT_PRIMARY to 50 to rebalance traffic)",
          "reward": 0.04999999999999999,
          "summary": "Resolution rejected."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "baseline": "frontier",
  "model": "openai/gpt-5.5",
  "run_kind": "llm",
  "command_hint": "python eval/run_eval.py --agent frontier --model openai/gpt-5.5 --episodes 1 --output frontier_openai_gpt-5.5_episodes1.json"
}