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Reading the evidence

Talk through the example in "Reading the evidence", then name the result it is meant to produce.

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Guessing from the symptom is what front-line support does. The escalation point reads the evidence and lets the data narrow the suspect list.

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Cursor's diagnostic surfaces

Cursor's diagnostic surfaceswhere the client tells you what broke

  • Developer Tools console - the Electron renderer's JS errors. Open with the Help menu's Toggle Developer Tools; this catches UI and chat-surface crashes.
  • Output / log panels - per-feature logs (the model picker, language servers, extensions). Set the log level to trace when you need detail.
  • On-disk log files - the full logs folder via the command palette's Open Logs Folder; this is what you attach to a report.