# Openclaw 2461 Failure Root Cause Mining

> Failure Root Cause Mining for design and user research. Use when work requires failure root cause mining for design and user research with guardrails, traceable execution, and measurable outcomes.

- Skill: `zwright8/openclaw-2461-failure-root-cause-mining` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds add zwright8/openclaw-2461-failure-root-cause-mining`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/zwright8/openclaw-2461-failure-root-cause-mining/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Research & Search
- Author: zwright8 (https://skillmd.com/u/zwright8)
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/zwright8/openclaw-2461-failure-root-cause-mining

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# Failure Root Cause Mining for design and user research

## Mission
Use failure root cause mining in design and user research with emphasis on evidence quality, falsifiability, and calibration.

## Activation Cues
- Task requires failure root cause mining in design and user research.
- Task needs explicit risk controls, approval gates, and traceable outcomes.
- Task output must include artifact handoff for humans and agents.

## Execution Plan
1. Define measurable outcomes for Failure Root Cause Mining for design and user research, including baseline and target metrics for design and user research.
2. Specify structured inputs/outputs for failure root cause mining and validate schema contract edge cases.
3. Implement the core failure root cause mining logic with deterministic scoring and reproducible execution traces.
4. Integrate orchestration policy, routing, approval gates, retries, and rollback for autonomous execution.
5. Run unit, integration, simulation, and regression suites for Failure Root Cause Mining for design and user research under maximally truth-seeking conditions.
6. Roll out behind a feature flag, monitor telemetry, and refine thresholds using observed operational outcomes.

## Runbook
Preflight:
- Validate mission scope, contracts, and required inputs.
- Verify feature flag posture, dependencies, and approval prerequisites.

Execution:
- Execute failure root cause mining workflow with deterministic scoring and trace capture.
- Track posture transitions and preserve reproducible evidence artifacts.

Recovery:
- Apply rollback strategy if posture is critical or guardrails fail.
- Escalate blocked execution to oversight with incident packet and trace references.

Handoff:
- Publish outcome report, scorecard, and telemetry links.
- Queue follow-up tasks for unresolved risks, approvals, or optimization work.

## Guardrails
- [quality] Require unit and integration validations before promoting Failure Root Cause Mining for design and user research. Automation: `run-validation:unit+integration+simulation+regression-baseline`
- [reliability] Trigger rollback on critical posture or repeated failures. Automation: `rollback:rollback-to-last-stable-baseline`
- [compliance] Require policy and approval gates prior to autonomous deployment. Automation: `approval-gates:policy-constraint-check+evidence-review`
- [cost] Respect bounded resource pressure and execution budget during scaling. Automation: `budget-guard:resource-pressure-cap`

## Success Metrics
- Primary metric: accuracy lift
- Secondary metrics: contradiction reduction, evidence coverage in design and user research
- Review cadence: weekly

## Output Contract
- Return a concise execution summary with key decisions.
- Return risk and mitigation notes with unresolved blockers.
- Return artifact target: `failure-root-cause-mining-artifact-design-and-user-research`.
- Return recommended follow-up tasks for next wave execution.