Given this stack trace and code context, produce a ranked list of at most four hypotheses for the root cause. For each: the evidence for, the evidence against, and the single cheapest experiment that would confirm or kill it. Do not propose any fix until one hypothesis survives. [TRACE + CONTEXT]
▸ ready to runGiven this stack trace and code context, produce a ranked list of at most four hypotheses for the root cause. For each: the evidence for, the evidence against, and the single cheapest experiment that would confirm or kill it. Do not propose any fix until one hypothesis survives. [TRACE + CONTEXT]
Stack Trace Hypothesis Ranker
A debugging discipline in prompt form: hypotheses with evidence both ways and a cheapest-experiment step, with fixes explicitly forbidden until confirmation. Cuts wild-goose-chase time dramatically on unfamiliar codebases.