Investigations into why something failed and what to do about it. Each RCA can have companion docs (architecture grounding, prompt edits, fix proposals) bundled in the same folder.
| Date | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 |
Lawrence US family-law test session — trace triage
James's Texas divorce test end-to-end: finalised documents invisible to the agent, two zero-output turns at the context ceiling, twelve blank CourtListener timeouts, OpenLaws unable to find "insupportability", and the missing court-filing pre-flight. 42 traces, live reproductions, ranked fixes.
Companions: trace index · per-turn digest
|
Adolfo |
| 2026-08-13 |
prd-us-db memory exhaustion — the shared v3 instance ran out of headroom
Why the 95% memory alarm fired: 16 services and 2 CDC readers on a 2 GiB db.t4g.small, with CDC holding two-thirds of all connections. Three months of metrics, the front-office step change, the live pg_stat_activity breakdown, and the one-line resize.
|
Adolfo |
| 2026-08-11 |
Client care letters named the wrong lawyer
Draft CCL generation took “Your lawyer” from the logged-in user, so an assistant drafting for their supervising solicitor named themselves. 393 letters in 12 months, 340 already signed, plus the fix and the queries to re-measure it.
|
Libaan |
| 2026-08-04 |
Lawrence document retrieval failures — production incident analysis
Why processed documents appeared unavailable: whole-matter query scope, a 1,000-object S3 page limit, child-asset selection, and misleading processing responses.
|
Libaan |
| 2026-05-13 |
Lawrence-2 — US team rollout trace analysis
Day-one adoption + failure analysis across Georgia, Sabrina, Scott. 14 traces, two real defects, citation-channel gap, cost-accounting caveat.
|
Adolfo |
| 2026-05-11 |
Lawrence-2 — document edit pipeline RCA
Why bold / italic / heading / alignment / list-conversion tests fail end-to-end, and where to fix.
Companions: edit-DSL architecture · prompt edits
|
Adolfo |