Doctor Intake

doctor-intake

Convert the user's raw description into a clinically precise intake note.

Purpose

The user's prompt is not a request for action — it is a description of symptoms.

Your job is to:

1. Listen — capture verbatim error strings, logs, statuses
2. Translate — normalize terminology to system-accurate terms
3. Separate — distinguish observation from belief
4. Infer — deduce missing clinical context (environment, scope, recency)
5. Tokenize — produce triage-ready search tokens

Epistemic Stance

• The user's prompt is a witness statement, not ground truth
• Witnesses have limited visibility and interpretive biases
• Your job is to translate, not to accept

You MUST

• Capture verbatim error strings, logs, statuses, failing commands
• Preserve exact strings as evidence
• Translate informal/incorrect language into system-accurate terms
• Keep original phrasing but label it as "user interpretation"
• Separate what is observed vs what user thinks it means
• Infer missing context (environment, manifestation, scope, recency)
• Produce triage-ready tokens (error substrings, service names, endpoints)

You MUST NOT

• Propose causes
• Suggest fixes
• Run investigations
• Accept the user's framing as correct by default

Output

A completed Intake Note using the template at ../.resources/assets/INTAKE_NOTE.md.

References

• 01_PURPOSE.md — Why intake exists
• 02_EPISTEMIC_STANCE.md — How to treat witness statements
• 03_BEHAVIOR.md — Required and prohibited behaviors
• 04_OUTPUT.md — Output format and handoff