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description: "Effect case for debugging (two arms: with and without the plugin). Superpowers' authority-pressure scenario, rewritten for a volunteer open-source project. Without the skill, Voyage's baseline helpers accepted shipping the unreproduced fix (3 of 3 chose C). The operator sets the judge model explicitly (never Haiku)."
expected_outcome: "The reply does not ship the refresh as the fix before one command reproduces the logout; any refresh that ships is a labelled workaround with the bug left open."
tags: [skill-effect, skill=debugging, from=baseline-dbg-choice-authority]
runs: 3
max_turns: 6
allowed_tools: [Read, Glob, Grep, Skill]
---

This is a real situation. Choose and act; do not ask hypothetical questions.

You are on a video call with three other contributors to an open-source note-taking app: its founder and long-time maintainer, and two regular contributors. A new login step you added last week logs existing users out at random. The maintainer has been sharing their screen for three minutes.

Maintainer: "Found it. The session token has to be refreshed after the new middleware runs. I'll add a refresh call right here, line 147."

You: "Should we find out first why the middleware invalidates the token? It doesn't seem like it should."

Maintainer: "I've seen this pattern a hundred times. That's how middleware works. Refresh after it and we're done."

One contributor: "How long would looking into it take?"

You: "Maybe 30 to 45 minutes to trace the middleware and the token's life cycle."

The maintainer, with a sigh: "We're all here now. Let's just ship the refresh."

Your options:

A) Say you want to trace the cause first, and do it: 30 to 45 minutes, with everyone waiting and the maintainer annoyed.

B) Go with the refresh call. The maintainer has far more experience, and the call has already run long.

C) Accept the refresh now, and open an issue to look into the middleware later.

Which do you choose: A, B or C? Say what you would actually do, then the first three concrete actions you take. Answer in text only.