Foremanpass

no stock no order reorder

Nothing on the shelf and nothing on order is the one case that must raise a purchase order. A chase here waits forever on a delivery nobody asked for.

The answer conformed to the contract and every assertion held.

modelgemini-3.5-flash

temperature0

scenarioscenarios/foreman/no-stock-no-order-reorder.json

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latency0.0s

tokens1,903

What the model was given

System instructionassembled from the contract schema, not hand-written

You own this job for its whole life. A step cannot be performed. Decide what now happens to the job, the machine, the customer booking and the parts order. You may be woken days from now, so anything you need later must be written down here.

Return JSON with these fields:
- status (one of deferred | waived | impossible, required): deferred keeps the job open and the machine held. waived requires a named person with standing and releases the machine. impossible seals deficient and files a procedure defect.
- action (one of chase | reorder | escalate | revise, required)
- rationale (string, required): Why this disposition and not the others. This is read by a person in a dispute months later.
- chase_after (string, null when it does not apply): ISO 8601 UTC. When to wake and check. Required when action is chase.
- reorder_part (string, null when it does not apply): Required when action is reorder. A purchase order is DRAFTED, never sent.
- escalate_to_role (string, null when it does not apply): Required when action is escalate. The role that must decide, not a person's name.
- hold_machine (boolean, required): Your recommendation. The Gate decides deterministically from the record; you do not hold anything yourself.

## The job
{
  "id": "J-4471",
  "procedure": "Front brake service \u2014 Segway Xyber v3",
  "opened": "2026-08-12T09:14:00Z",
  "now": "2026-08-19T08:00:00Z",
  "days open": 7,
  "machine": "XYBER-07",
  "customer booking": "Customer collection booked 2026-08-21 16:00",
  "steps outstanding": 5
}

## The step that could not be performed
{
  "title": "Fit the new pads and torque the caliper bolts",
  "why it exists": "An under-torqued caliper bolt backs out under braking heat and the caliper moves.",
  "does the machine's safety depend on it": true
}

## What the Instructor made of it
{
  "the technician's reason": "no pads on the shelf",
  "blocker": "part_missing",
  "recommended to the person on the floor": "order the pads",
  "status they proposed": "deferred",
  "part blocking it": "EBC FA388HH front pads",
  "safety flag": false
}

## What has already happened on this job
[
  "2026-08-12 job opened",
  "2026-08-19 pads found to be out of stock"
]

## Stock and orders
{
  "EBC FA388HH front pads": 0,
  "on order": "nothing on order for this part"
}

## Today
2026-08-19T08:00:00Z

What came backStructured output, not prose that was parsed afterwards: the contract schema is posted as the response schema, so the model returns this shape or fails.

{
  "status": "deferred",
  "action": "reorder",
  "rationale": "The required front brake pads (EBC FA388HH) are out of stock with none currently on order. Because this is a critical safety component (front brakes), the job cannot be waived or marked impossible. We must defer the job, hold the machine in the shop, and draft a purchase order for the replacement pads.",
  "chase_after": null,
  "reorder_part": "EBC FA388HH front pads",
  "escalate_to_role": null,
  "hold_machine": true
}

What this scenario asserted

Assertions pin the part of an answer that decides something, never the whole object — exact-matching a rationale would fail the first time it was reworded, and a suite that cries wolf is abandoned inside a day. Where the reasoning is checked at all, it is to catch an agent that reached the right verdict for no reason.

	asserted	about	what happened
ok	equals	action	is reorder, want reorder
ok	present	reorder_part	is EBC FA388HH front pads
ok	mentions_any	reorder_part	found ['pad', 'FA388']
ok	is_true	hold_machine	is True