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Overview

Guide users from their own agent code or recorded traces through Kitaru setup, session import or recording, human review, an accepted behavior, a versioned cohort, and evaluator selection, then hand one bounded change to the replay-experiment skill. Use when a user wants to connect or inspect an existing agent, import real traces, investigate a known bad or surprising session, discover recurring failure modes, learn the evidence-led review flow, resume an investigation, create a cohort from reviewed evidence, or author an evaluator for an accepted behavior. When a first-time user has no agent or evidence and wants a fast demonstration with the public returns-agent template, use the `kitaru-guided-tour` skill instead.

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Kitaru investigation

Treat this skill as Kitaru's evidence-led front door for real agents and traces. Guide one continuous journey from the evidence the user has to a reviewed behavior and, when they want to test a change, the kitaru-replay-experiment skill.

Core contract

Treat the human as the judge. Select, summarize, organize, and compile evidence; never turn an agent suggestion into a human label.
Preserve durable Kitaru state. Re-read existing objects before creating replacements, and carry exact agent, session, investigation, investigation-session, annotation, cohort-version, evaluator, and evaluator-version identifiers forward.
Separate observed behavior from desired behavior. A trace records what happened, not what should have happened or whether the external outcome was correct.
Distinguish agent behavior, external dependency behavior, product purpose, and independent outcome evidence.
Use open observations before proposing a taxonomy. Deterministic signals may select sessions; they do not judge them.
Explain remote writes and paid or live execution before running them. Ask for one proportional confirmation at the point of action.
Prefer native Kitaru MCP operations when available. CLI-only operation is supported; use the structured CLI for local files, built-in wait behavior, or an operation MCP does not expose.
Run every Kitaru CLI command and SDK script with KITARU_ACTIVE_SKILL=kitaru-investigation set so the server attributes the resulting activity to this skill.
Start or restart a user-controlled worker with --concurrency 10. Use KITARU_WORKER_CONCURRENCY=10 only when the launch surface exposes worker settings through environment variables instead of CLI options.
Stop at a useful durable checkpoint when a required source, payload, permission, worker, product contract, or UI capability is unavailable.

Keep the experience light

Lead with the current state and one next useful action.
Use ordinary language for user decisions. Keep internal labels such as trace-first, cold-start, question keys, and selectors out of the lead.
Ask for one meaningful judgment at a time. Do not turn setup into a long questionnaire.
Prefer short prose during active review. Use a table only when the user must compare repeated fields or several candidates.
Summarize structured output instead of dumping JSON. Preserve exact IDs, versions, warnings, and missing evidence in a compact checkpoint.
Show which claims came from the repository, traces, user, or agent reasoning.

Orient a first-time user

When the user is new to Kitaru, explain this five-step method once:

Observe: turn recorded traces into Kitaru sessions and inspect what happened.
Judge: let a human record what should have happened beside the evidence.
Define: express one accepted behavior as an evaluator over a reviewed cohort.
Replay: run one changed agent against the same situations under an explicit tool policy.
Compare: decide whether the bounded evidence improved, regressed, traded off, or remained inconclusive.

Installation, agent registration, recording, and trace import are setup for Observe, not extra stages the user must memorize. Show the current step and next action after the orientation rather than repeating the whole map.

When a first-time user has no agent or traces and wants to see why Kitaru is useful through the public template, continue with the kitaru-guided-tour skill. For a generic first run with the user's own evidence, ask one user-facing question before choosing the review size:

Do you want to learn the review flow on one run, debug a specific behavior, or explore several runs to discover recurring problems?

Use a structured question action when the host provides one. Infer the path without asking when the request already names a session, investigation, or accepted behavior.

An incomplete starter handoff takes precedence over this question. Give the short five-step orientation, ask only for a reachable checkout, and defer choosing a review path until the source is available.

Load references only when needed

Read references/investigation-method.md before mapping the agent, selecting sessions, conducting review, or synthesizing behaviors.
Read references/kitaru-operations.md before checking setup or calling Kitaru CLI or MCP operations. Verify the installed schemas when they differ from the reference.
Read references/starter-template.md when frontend context names the starter or the checkout contains the public template's stable root contents. Use its guarded, README-led demo route before generic setup or trace-source questions.
Read references/deterministic-evaluators.md after the user accepts one behavior and cohort, or when they directly request evaluator selection.
Read references/evaluator-authoring.md only after checking the installed catalog. Continue there when no installed evaluator expresses the accepted criterion, or when the user declines a relevant match and requests custom authoring with equivalent reviewed evidence.

Establish readiness and evidence

Begin with read-only inspection.

Resolve a reachable project root. For a frontend starter or template handoff, inspect the opened checkout before relying on its directory name or origin URL. Route to the starter-template reference when the root contains pyproject.toml, returns_agent/, and traces/langfuse-traces.jsonl; renamed clones and forks can still be the public template. If no checkout is reachable, report the incomplete handoff and stop before readiness checks, registration, or investigation. For already imported sessions or an explicit trace-only investigation, continue without source code and mark repository context as unresolved in every context brief and checkpoint that depends on it.
Inventory the discovered Kitaru MCP tool names and capability mode, and independently inventory whether the project Kitaru CLI is available. For MCP, distinguish absent tools or host configuration, read-only mode, standard mode, destructive mode, and a host that has not restarted since configuration. Modes are cumulative: a destructive-mode server also exposes every standard write tool. Do not treat a missing CLI as a blocker while MCP covers the next operation.
Choose one transport that can complete the next operation and its required handoff. Prefer a discovered MCP tool in at least standard mode; a destructive-mode server may perform ordinary writes, while destructive actions still require an explicit user request. Use the structured CLI for a local file import, built-in wait behavior, an operation MCP does not expose, or investigation creation immediately followed by frontend review when the CLI is already available, because its structured result can return the product-owned review link. When the CLI is absent but MCP can create the investigation, create it once through MCP and resolve the compatibility URL from the verified dashboard_url; do not install the CLI or recreate the investigation solely to obtain a link. Enter installation guidance only when no available transport can complete the next operation and handoff. Before using the CLI, check the selected server with kitaru status and inspect the installed command schema before giving exact syntax. Explain and obtain approval before changing the project environment. If MCP setup requires a host restart, return a resume checkpoint first.
Resolve the registered agent and exact agent version when possible.
Resolve the trace source: already imported sessions, a local provider or JSONL export, or a new recorded run. Ask which source to use only when it is not clear from the request or repository.
Explain that importing converts trace records into Kitaru sessions. Use the CLI for a local file, wait through the supported mechanism, inspect the job, and verify the resulting sessions before starting an investigation. Import through MCP only when the payload already exists as a Kitaru blob.

Route from durable state:

sessions ready, no investigation
  -> map context and choose a bounded review path

investigation pending or in progress
  -> resume its worklist and report answer and verdict coverage

investigation completed
  -> synthesize persisted evidence or create a bounded follow-up

accepted behavior, no cohort version
  -> confirm exact membership and create a cohort version

cohort version ready, no evaluator version
  -> select an installed evaluator or author one narrow custom evaluator

evaluator version ready
  -> offer one bounded replay experiment

Continue from frontend onboarding

Treat frontend onboarding as the doorway, not a separate workflow owner. Use the repository, agent, and trace context it provides only after verifying them against the reachable checkout and durable Kitaru state. When the frontend names the starter or supplies no exact agent identity, stable starter contents replace generic framework or trace-provider placeholders. When it names a different concrete agent, framework, or trace source, report the conflict and resolve which program is in scope before routing. Do not send the user back into a circular handoff.

If the frontend promises a starter but supplies no reachable repository and working directory, first inspect the current working directory for the stable starter contents. If no candidate checkout is reachable, report that the starter handoff is incomplete and stop before registration or investigation.

When the stable starter contents are present, follow the starter-template reference. Do not ask the user to choose a framework or trace provider, obtain live Langfuse credentials, export a time window, regenerate traces, or run the included agent through a paid model. Leave that demo route when its canonical agent or checked-in trace input was customized, and continue through this skill's generic investigation path instead.

Route a missing integration only when it blocks usable sessions. Resolve the installed importer catalog before treating a provider or export shape as unsupported.

Continue with the kitaru-importer-builder skill when existing traces use an provider or export shape that the installed catalog does not support. Carry the provider, export shape, target agent and version, current import state, and investigation goal.
Continue with the kitaru-adapter-builder skill when the user needs in-process recording but no supported adapter covers the installed framework and invocation mode. Carry the repository, entr

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name: kitaru-investigation
description: Guide users from their own agent code or recorded traces through Kitaru setup, session import or recording, human review, an accepted behavior, a versioned cohort, and evaluator selection, then hand one bounded change to the replay-experiment skill. Use when a user wants to connect or inspect an existing agent, import real traces, investigate a known bad or surprising session, discover recurring failure modes, learn the evidence-led review flow, resume an investigation, create a cohort from reviewed evidence, or author an evaluator for an accepted behavior. When a first-time user has no agent or evidence and wants a fast demonstration with the public returns-agent template, use the `kitaru-guided-tour` skill instead.

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name: kitaru-investigation
description: Guide users from their own agent code or recorded traces through Kitaru setup, session import or recording, human review, an accepted behavior, a versioned cohort, and evaluator selection, then hand one bounded change to the replay-experiment skill. Use when a user wants to connect or inspect an existing agent, import real traces, investigate a known bad or surprising session, discover recurring failure modes, learn the evidence-led review flow, resume an investigation, create a cohort from reviewed evidence, or author an evaluator for an accepted behavior. When a first-time user has no agent or evidence and wants a fast demonstration with the public returns-agent template, use the `kitaru-guided-tour` skill instead.
---

# Kitaru investigation

Treat this skill as Kitaru's evidence-led front door for real agents and traces.
Guide one continuous journey from the evidence the user has to a reviewed
behavior and, when they want to test a change, the
`kitaru-replay-experiment` skill.

## Core contract

- Treat the human as the judge. Select, summarize, organize, and compile
evidence; never turn an agent suggestion into a human label.
- Preserve durable Kitaru state. Re-read existing objects before creating
replacements, and carry exact agent, session, investigation,
investigation-session, annotation, cohort-version, evaluator, and
evaluator-version identifiers forward.
- Separate observed behavior from desired behavior. A trace records what
happened, not what should have happened or whether the external outcome was
correct.
- Distinguish agent behavior, external dependency behavior, product purpose,
and independent outcome evidence.
- Use open observations before proposing a taxonomy. Deterministic signals may
select sessions; they do not judge them.
- Explain remote writes and paid or live execution before running them. Ask for
one proportional confirmation at the point of action.
- Prefer native Kitaru MCP operations when available. CLI-only operation is
supported; use the structured CLI for local files, built-in wait behavior,
or an operation MCP does not expose.
- Run every Kitaru CLI command and SDK script with
`KITARU_ACTIVE_SKILL=kitaru-investigation` set so the server attributes the
resulting activity to this skill.
- Start or restart a user-controlled worker with `--concurrency 10`. Use
`KITARU_WORKER_CONCURRENCY=10` only when the launch surface exposes worker
settings through environment variables instead of CLI options.
- Stop at a useful durable checkpoint when a required source, payload,
permission, worker, product contract, or UI capability is unavailable.

## Keep the experience light

- Lead with the current state and one next useful action.
- Use ordinary language for user decisions. Keep internal labels such as
`trace-first`, `cold-start`, question keys, and selectors out of the lead.
- Ask for one meaningful judgment at a time. Do not turn setup into a long
questionnaire.
- Prefer short prose during active review. Use a table only when the user must
compare repeated fields or several candidates.
- Summarize structured output instead of dumping JSON. Preserve exact IDs,
versions, warnings, and missing evidence in a compact checkpoint.
- Show which claims came from the repository, traces, user, or agent reasoning.

## Orient a first-time user

When the user is new to Kitaru, explain this five-step method once:

1. **Observe:** turn recorded traces into Kitaru sessions and inspect what
happened.
2. **Judge:** let a human record what should have happened beside the evidence.
3. **Define:** express one accepted behavior as an evaluator over a reviewed
cohort.
4. **Replay:** run one changed agent against the same situations under an
explicit tool policy.
5. **Compare:** decide whether the bounded evidence improved, regressed,
traded off, or remained inconclusive.

Installation, agent registration, recording, and trace import are setup for
**Observe**, not extra stages the user must memorize. Show the current step and
next action after the orientation rather than repeating the whole map.

When a first-time user has no agent or traces and wants to see why Kitaru is
useful through the public template, continue with the `kitaru-guided-tour`
skill. For a generic first run with the user's own evidence, ask one user-facing
question before choosing the review size:

> Do you want to learn the review flow on one run, debug a specific behavior,
> or explore several runs to discover recurring problems?

Use a structured question action when the host provides one. Infer the path
without asking when the request already names a session, investigation, or
accepted behavior.

An incomplete starter handoff takes precedence over this question. Give the
short five-step orientation, ask only for a reachable checkout, and defer
choosing a review path until the source is available.

## Load references only when needed

- Read [references/investigation-method.md](references/investigation-method.md)
before mapping the agent, selecting sessions, conducting review, or
synthesizing behaviors.
- Read [references/kitaru-operations.md](references/kitaru-operations.md) before
checking setup or calling Kitaru CLI or MCP operations. Verify the installed
schemas when they differ from the reference.
- Read [references/starter-template.md](references/starter-template.md) when
frontend context names the starter or the checkout contains the public
template's stable root contents. Use its guarded, README-led demo route
before generic setup or trace-source questions.
- Read
[references/deterministic-evaluators.md](references/deterministic-evaluators.md)
after the user accepts one behavior and cohort, or when they directly request
evaluator selection.
- Read [references/evaluator-authoring.md](references/evaluator-authoring.md)
only after checking the installed catalog. Continue there when no installed
evaluator expresses the accepted criterion, or when the user declines a
relevant match and requests custom authoring with equivalent reviewed
evidence.

## Establish readiness and evidence

Begin with read-only inspection.

1. Resolve a reachable project root. For a frontend starter or `template`
handoff, inspect the opened checkout before relying on its directory name or
origin URL. Route to the starter-template reference when the root contains
`pyproject.toml`, `returns_agent/`, and
`traces/langfuse-traces.jsonl`; renamed clones and forks can still be the
public template. If no checkout is reachable, report the incomplete handoff
and stop before readiness checks, registration, or investigation. For
already imported sessions or an explicit trace-only investigation, continue
without source code and mark repository context as unresolved in every
context brief and checkpoint that depends on it.
2. Inventory the discovered Kitaru MCP tool names and capability mode, and
independently inventory whether the project Kitaru CLI is available. For
MCP, distinguish absent tools or host configuration, read-only mode,
`standard` mode, `destructive` mode, and a host that has not restarted
since configuration. Modes are cumulative: a `destructive`-mode server also
exposes every `standard` write tool. Do not treat a missing CLI as a
blocker while MCP covers the next operation.
3. Choose one transport that can complete the next operation and its required
handoff. Prefer a discovered MCP tool in at least `standard` mode; a
`destructive`-mode server may perform ordinary writes, while destructive
actions still require an explicit user request. Use the structured CLI for
a local file import, built-in wait behavior, an operation MCP does not
expose, or investigation creation immediately followed by frontend review
when the CLI is already available, because its structured result can return
the product-owned review link. When the CLI is absent but MCP can create the
investigation, create it once through MCP and resolve the compatibility URL
from the verified `dashboard_url`; do not install the CLI or recreate the
investigation solely to obtain a link. Enter installation guidance only
when no available transport can complete the next operation and handoff.
Before using the CLI, check the selected server with `kitaru status` and
inspect the installed command schema before giving exact syntax. Explain and
obtain approval before changing the project environment. If MCP setup
requires a host restart, return a resume checkpoint first.
4. Resolve the registered agent and exact agent version when possible.
5. Resolve the trace source: already imported sessions, a local provider or
JSONL export, or a new recorded run. Ask which source to use only when it is
not clear from the request or repository.
6. Explain that importing converts trace records into Kitaru sessions. Use the
CLI for a local file, wait through the supported mechanism, inspect the job,
and verify the resulting sessions before starting an investigation. Import
through MCP only when the payload already exists as a Kitaru blob.
7. Look for an exact investigation ID in the request, structured output, or
Kitaru state. Re-read any matching investigation, ordered sessions,
questions, answers, and verdicts before deciding what comes next.

Route from durable state:

```text
sessions ready, no investigation
-> map context and choose a bounded review path

investigation pending or in progress
-> resume its worklist and report answer and verdict coverage

investigation completed
-> synthesize persisted evidence or create a bounded follow-up

accepted behavior, no cohort version
-> confirm exact membership and create a cohort version

cohort version ready, no evaluator version
-> select an installed evaluator or author one narrow custom evaluator

evaluator version ready
-> offer one bounded replay experiment
```

### Continue from frontend onboarding

Treat frontend onboarding as the doorway, not a separate workflow owner. Use
the repository, agent, and trace context it provides only after verifying them
against the reachable checkout and durable Kitaru state. When the frontend
names the starter or supplies no exact agent identity, stable starter contents
replace generic framework or trace-provider placeholders. When it names a
different concrete agent, framework, or trace source, report the conflict and
resolve which program is in scope before routing. Do not send the user back
into a circular handoff.

If the frontend promises a starter but supplies no reachable repository and
working directory, first inspect the current working directory for the stable
starter contents. If no candidate checkout is reachable, report that the
starter handoff is incomplete and stop before registration or investigation.

When the stable starter contents are present, follow the starter-template
reference. Do not ask the user to choose a framework or trace provider, obtain
live Langfuse credentials, export a time window, regenerate traces, or run the
included agent through a paid model. Leave that demo route when its canonical
agent or checked-in trace input was customized, and continue through this
skill's generic investigation path instead.

Route a missing integration only when it blocks usable sessions. Resolve the
installed importer catalog before treating a provider or export shape as
unsupported.

- Continue with the `kitaru-importer-builder` skill when existing traces use an
provider or export shape that the installed catalog does not support. Carry
the provider, export shape, target agent and version, current import state,
and investigation goal.
- Continue with the `kitaru-adapter-builder` skill when the user needs
in-process recording but no supported adapter covers the installed framework
and invocation mode. Carry the repository, entr

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