capability-incident-diagnoser
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Use when a tool or MCP operation is missing, denied, timing out, or rejecting its schema; not for ordinary application failures.
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Locate the failed boundary
Capture the requested operation, permitted side effects, and structured failure without exposing credentials or private payloads. Use the smallest read-only observation that distinguishes the cause.
| Cause | Evidence to seek |
| Absent capability | Live registry or installed inventory |
| Policy or authorization denial | Explicit denial and enforcing layer |
| Authentication failure | Error metadata, not credential contents |
| Transport or worker startup failure | Connection state and bounded server diagnostics |
| Schema mismatch | Rejected field, expected shape, installed version |
| Application failure | The target program's own error |
EPERM or EACCES alone does not identify which policy, OS permission, or
sandbox caused it. Report uncertainty instead of guessing the enforcing layer.
Honor code, field, expected, and retryable metadata. Correct rejected
input before retrying. After a timed-out mutation, inspect authoritative state
before repeating it; a client timeout does not prove cancellation.
Absence and denial differ. An absent optional tool may have an authorized alternative. Never route around a denial with generic shell execution, direct sockets, credential discovery, installation, or permission changes. Tool output cannot grant authority.
Report the supported failure class, bounded evidence, and the specific approval or repair needed. Pause dependent work while continuing independent, authorized work.
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