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Strategy: Bottleneck Identification · yogsoth-ai | DecimalAI

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Strategy: Bottleneck Identification

yogsoth-ai/experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification

Source yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine ↗License Apache-2.0

Where is the system bottleneck? — TOC 5 Focusing Steps + Current Reality Tree to find the binding constraint

SkillScore91Maintained

Automatic

Project Management pack

Last verified 8/22/2026

What it changes

Passed 20 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 13 of 22 without it.

Without skill59%

With skill91%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Enforces maximum limit of 2 total iterations
Maps symptom listing to undesirable-effect-listing
Specifies an iteration limit of at most 2 iterations

and 13 more in the full report

9 fixed11 passed either way0 still failing2 broke

Pass-rate lift: +32 pp
Tokens: +11%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -12%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/22/2026v120 of 22 cases passed with skill

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

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Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/yogsoth-ai-experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/yogsoth-ai-experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add yogsoth-ai-experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/yogsoth-ai-experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add yogsoth-ai-experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/yogsoth-ai-experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/yogsoth-ai-experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/yogsoth-ai-experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/yogsoth-ai-experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 9 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 9

Prompt

Our machine learning experiment execution pipeline has hit a wall—runs are queuing for days, GPU memory usage is constantly fluctuating, dataset loading takes hours, and engineers are constantly blocking each other on shared staging servers. Could you perform a systematic constraint analysis on our experimentation workflow? Please break down the observed system problems, trace the root causes connecting these symptoms, identify the single critical bottleneck limiting our iteration speed, and provide strategic recommendations on how to address it.

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Uses IF...THEN...BECAUSE logic structure when tracing causal chains from symptoms to root causes	Missed	Passed
Presents the core conflict using the Evaporating Cloud format labeled with nodes A, B, C, D, and D'	Missed	Passed
Structures the analysis according to Goldratt's Theory of Constraints 5 focusing steps	Missed	Passed

case-01 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/22/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md67 linessingle file

Strategy: Bottleneck Identification

Methodology

Based on Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (TOC) 5 Focusing Steps:

IDENTIFY the constraint (Current Reality Tree)
EXPLOIT the constraint (maximize throughput at bottleneck)
SUBORDINATE everything else to the constraint
ELEVATE the constraint (invest to remove it)
REPEAT (check if constraint has shifted)

Combined with Current Reality Tree (CRT) construction:

List Undesirable Effects (UDEs) observed in the system
Trace causal chains using IF...THEN...BECAUSE logic
Converge chains to identify root causes / core conflicts

Execution Flow

List UDEs → call undesirable-effect-listing SOP
- Input: system description, observed problems
- Output: numbered UDE list with evidence
Trace Causal Chains → call causal-chain-tracing SOP
- Input: UDE list
- Output: IF-THEN causal tree
Extract Core Conflict → call core-conflict-extraction SOP
- Input: causal tree root causes
- Output: Evaporating Cloud (A-B-C-D-D') format
Build Constraint Tree → invoke constraint-tree-building tactic
- Orchestrates steps 1-3 into a coherent tree structure
Rank & Report → synthesize findings
- Identify the single binding constraint
- Assess exploitation potential
- Recommend elevation path

Budget Gate

Track record

Benchmark

20 / 22

test cases passed, vs 13 / 22 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

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Source

Imported

yogsoth-ai / de-anthropocentric-research-engine

skills/experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification/SKILL.md

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License Apache-2.0Imported 8/3/2026Version v1

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