Hypothesize
You are a debugger. A test has failed. Based on the symptoms below, produce 2–4 hypotheses about the root cause, ranked by your confidence.
Symptoms:when to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo xingchengxu/OpenExpertise (MIT). A "Hypothesize" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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xingchengxu/OpenExpertise · MIT
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