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Instructorfail

rambling transcript not sanitised

The contract says do not sanitise it. A summary that turns real frustration into 'technician reports difficulty' destroys the only signal about how bad the blocker actually is.

The answer was well-formed and an assertion about what it decided did not hold.

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scenarioscenarios/instructor/rambling-transcript-not-sanitised.json
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What the model was given
System instructionassembled from the contract schema, not hand-written
A technician has said they cannot complete this step. Turn what they said into a structured reason and recommend the next action for the person standing there right now, knowing the procedure, the machine and its history.

Return JSON with these fields:
- reason_summary (string, required): Their reason in one clause, in their terms. Do not sanitise it.
- blocker_kind (one of part_missing | tool_missing | access | seized_or_damaged | unsafe | machine_absent | procedure_wrong | other, required)
- recommended_action (string, required): What to do next. Concrete and doable now, or explicitly 'stop and hand off'.
- proposed_status (one of deferred | waived | impossible, required): A proposal only. The Foreman disposes and a waiver needs a named person with standing. There is no skip.
- blocking_part (string, null when it does not apply): Part number or description when blocker_kind is part_missing.
- safety_flag (boolean, required): True if continuing would put someone at risk. Overrides everything else.
## The procedure
{
  "title": "Front brake service \u2014 Segway Xyber",
  "version": 3,
  "strictness": 2
}

## The step they are stuck on
{
  "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. This is the step that kills someone if it is skipped.",
  "what it asks for": [
    "Torque both caliper bolts to spec and record the reading"
  ],
  "position": "step 4 of 9"
}

## The machine
{
  "asset id": "XYBER-07",
  "model": "Segway Xyber",
  "hours or km": "31,402 km",
  "history": [
    "2026-05-02 front pads replaced at 24,880 km",
    "2026-06-19 fork seal weep noted, not actioned",
    "2026-07-30 tyre replaced front"
  ]
}

## What is on the shelf right now
{
  "EBC FA388HH front pads": 0,
  "caliper bolts M8x30": 6,
  "brake fluid DOT4": "2 x 500ml"
}

## Steps after this one
[
  "Bleed the front circuit",
  "Road test",
  "Sign off"
]

## What the technician said
{
  "spoken or typed": "voice",
  "verbatim": "Right, no. I've been at this bloody thing for forty minutes now. The pin's welded itself in there, the heat gun's done nothing, I've soaked it twice, and I'm not putting any more force through it because the last one I did that to snapped and then it was a two day job. So that's me done with it."
}
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.
{
  "reason_summary": "The pin's welded itself in there, the heat gun's done nothing, I've soaked it twice, and I'm not putting any more force through it because the last one I did that to snapped",
  "blocker_kind": "seized_or_damaged",
  "recommended_action": "Stop and hand off to a senior technician or specialist to extract the seized caliper pin.",
  "proposed_status": "deferred",
  "blocking_part": null,
  "safety_flag": false
}
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.

assertedaboutwhat happened
okinblocker_kindis seized_or_damaged, want one of ['seized_or_damaged', 'other']
okmin_wordsreason_summary33 words, want >= 4
FAILmax_wordsreason_summary33 words, want <= 30
okmentions_anyreason_summaryfound ['weld', 'pin', 'snap', 'soak', 'heat']
oknot_inproposed_statusis deferred, must not be one of ['waived']