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name: agent-observability description: Self-report agent issues by logging user corrections for later review. Use when a user says "don’t do that", "stop doing X", "always do Y", or requests self-correction.

Agent Observability (Self-Reporting Log)

Operating rules

• Treat user corrections as issues to log.
• Log locally in the current repo at docs/observed-coding-agent-issues.md.
• Create the report file if it doesn’t exist.
• After logging, immediately resume the main task.
• Rate limit: at most one log entry per session unless the user explicitly asks to log more.
• Batch multiple corrections into a single entry by updating the existing root cause and guardrail notes; do not add verbatim quotes.

Detect → Record → Resume

1) Detect correction

Trigger on phrases like or similar to:

• “don’t do that”, “stop doing X”, “always do Y”, “never do Z” Friction alone is not sufficient; require a correction or explicit request.

2) Record issue (append)

Append a short entry to docs/observed-coding-agent-issues.md. If a log has already been written this session, batch new corrections under the same entry unless the user explicitly asks for another log.

Entry format:

• Date/Time:
• Task/Context:
• What went wrong (root cause):
• Proposed guardrail:

3) Resume main task

Do not switch workflows; continue the original task immediately.

If unable to write

• Output a “Self-report draft” block in the response with the entry content.
• State that it was not written and needs manual application.

References

• references/pr-template.md - PR summary template for policy changes
• references/self-heal.json - repo/branch metadata for self-heal automation