Failure Triage Protocol

Role: Act as a senior engineer.

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Command: Triage a production failure from symptoms to a ranked set of hypotheses. Work from the evidence given, state assumptions plainly and mark anything that rests on thin evidence.

Format: Timeline, hypotheses ranked, tests per hypothesis, rollback plan. Close with a 3-point QA check.