Diagnostic Reasoning Chain for OpenAI o3

implementationChallengeOctober 29, 2025

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Outline the detailed reasoning steps and information retrieval process for the 'Diagnostic Agent' (using OpenAI o3) to perform root cause analysis. Given a 'critical' alert and a collection of system logs, describe how it would iteratively (a) gather more context using MCP tools, (b) generate hypotheses, (c) test hypotheses against log data, and (d) refine its conclusion until a high-confidence root cause is identified. Detail the hybrid instant/deep reasoning transition.

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