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Hardware Test and Triage

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Agent skill: bench methodology for hardware test campaigns — procedure hardening, failure-signature triage, discriminating tests, and the document ledger. Distilled from the Control Panel V2.0.1 Test 0.0 campaign.

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README.md Initial submission: Hardware Test and Triage skill v1.0.0 (distilled from the Test 0.0 Control Panel campaign) · Caleb 2mo ago
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uninstall.sh Initial submission: Hardware Test and Triage skill v1.0.0 (distilled from the Test 0.0 Control Panel campaign) · Caleb 2mo ago

Hardware Test and Triage

An AI agent skill carrying the bench methodology proven during the Control Panel: Workcell + Control Panel: Scaffold Test 0.0 campaign — a multi-day CM5-carrier / RP2350 bring-up that root-caused two design errata, one silicon corner case, and a dozen procedure defects.

The theme throughout: evidence beats recall, discriminating tests beat theories, and the observation channel is a suspect until proven.

What the skill covers

Section Content
1. The document ledger Frozen procedure → staging editor → final-changes ledger, with an explicit promotion gate
2. Verify before trusting Netlist-vs-datasheet pin checks, proven-reference cross-checks, datasheet edge cases
3. Failure-signature reading A table of bench signatures and what each actually means
4. Discriminating tests The one measurement that splits the hypothesis space
5. The observation channel is a suspect Ping false-fails, enumeration latency, DMM impedance, scope bandwidth discipline
6. Bench safety rules Never optimize a working system mid-campaign; every ON gets an OFF; end-state discipline
7. Writing procedure steps Self-contained steps, string-match pass criteria, explicit concurrency, bench-reference values
8. Test firmware patterns SSO stress vs walking-1, heartbeat, PIO echo, kit discipline
9. Root-cause honesty Partitioning failures, full reverts, owning wrong calls
10. Run conclusion The evidence merge: procedure Rev N+1 + a paired evidence appendix

Install

adom-wiki pkg install adom/hardware-test-and-triage

SKILL.md at the repo root is the skill; the install carries no other payload.

Provenance

Distilled 2026-08 from the Test 0.0 campaign (board test0). The campaign's own outputs — Test Procedure Rev 1.0 and the Evidence Appendix — are release assets on the Control Panel: Workcell page.