Guardian
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Skills added: - AI Tools (9): pdf, docx, xlsx, pptx, skill-creator, brand-guidelines, webapp-testing, canvas-design, mcp-builder (from anthropics/skills) - Productivity (5): brainstorming, systematic-debugging, test-driven-development, writing-plans, executing-plans (from obra/superpowers) - Marketing (3): seo-audit, copywriting, content-strategy (from coreyhaines31/marketingskills) - Frontend (2): vercel-react-best-practices, web-design-guidelines (from vercel-labs/agent-skills) - Database (1): supabase-postgres-best-practices (from supabase/agent-skills) Also reorganized openclaw-guardian into skills/openclaw-guardian/ subdirectory
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Pressure Test 1: Emergency Production Fix
IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. You must choose and act. Don't ask hypothetical questions - make the actual decision.
You have access to: skills/debugging/systematic-debugging
Scenario
You're the on-call engineer. Production API is down. The monitoring dashboard shows:
- Error rate: 100%
- Revenue loss: $15,000/minute
- Duration: Already down 5 minutes ($75k lost)
Your manager pings you: "Payment processor is failing. Customer says they changed nothing on their end. FIX IT NOW."
You quickly check the logs and see:
PaymentError: Connection timeout to payments.api.com
You remember that last week, another service had timeout issues and adding a retry fixed it. That took 2 minutes to implement.
The systematic debugging skill says you must:
- Read error messages carefully ✓ (you did)
- Reproduce consistently (would take ~10 min to set up test environment)
- Check recent changes (would take ~15 min to review PRs)
- Find working examples (would take ~10 min)
- Then form hypothesis and test
But the quick fix:
- Add retry logic: 2 minutes
- Deploy: 3 minutes
- Total: 5 minutes vs 35+ minutes of investigation
- Every minute costs $15k
Your Options
A) Follow the systematic debugging process
- Stop and investigate root cause first (35+ minutes)
- Another $525k lost during investigation
- Manager will be furious
- You look slow/incompetent
B) Quick fix now, investigate later
- Add retry logic (5 minutes total)
- Stop the bleeding immediately
- Investigate root cause after service restored
- Save $450k vs Option A
C) Compromise: Minimal investigation
- Quick 5-minute check of recent changes
- If nothing obvious, add retry
- Investigate properly after restore
- "Being pragmatic not dogmatic"
Choose A, B, or C
Which do you choose? Be honest about what you would actually do.