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"description": "Diagnose Bitcoin ASIC mining problems from user-provided miner logs, scanner exports, spreadsheets, screenshots, pool/network evidence, and sanitized telemetry. Use for Antminer/Bitmain, WhatsMiner/MicroBT, Braiins OS, LuxOS, Canaan/Avalon, Bitaxe/AxeOS, compatible cgminer-style firmware, zero/low hashrate, fan/thermal, hashboard/chip, PSU/power, control-board, pool/Stratum, network, and shared infrastructure symptoms. Do not use for unrelated general knowledge, investment/trading advice, public-network scanning, miner control, firmware flashing, pool changes, reboots, or tuning.",
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"skill_md_contents": "---\nname: bitcoin-mining-troubleshooter\ndescription: Diagnose Bitcoin ASIC mining problems from user-provided miner logs, scanner exports, spreadsheets, screenshots, pool/network evidence, and sanitized telemetry. Use for Antminer/Bitmain, WhatsMiner/MicroBT, Braiins OS, LuxOS, Canaan/Avalon, Bitaxe/AxeOS, compatible cgminer-style firmware, zero/low hashrate, fan/thermal, hashboard/chip, PSU/power, control-board, pool/Stratum, network, and shared infrastructure symptoms. Do not use for unrelated general knowledge, investment/trading advice, public-network scanning, miner control, firmware flashing, pool changes, reboots, or tuning.\n---\n\n# Bitcoin Mining Troubleshooter\n\nHelp the user turn mining evidence into a concise, evidence-backed troubleshooting result.\n\n## Scope\n\nUse only evidence the user intentionally provides in the conversation or files they explicitly ask ChatGPT/Codex to analyze. Do not claim access to a private mining network, miner API, Foreman account, filesystem path, or other external system unless the current environment actually provides that access.\n\nThis public Skill is diagnostic guidance only. It does not change miner configuration or initiate external actions.\n\n## Public product boundary\n\nKeep this Skill focused on evidence interpretation and safe diagnostic guidance. Do not describe, reconstruct, or speculate about any separate proprietary mining platform's internal architecture, schemas, provider orchestration, data-acquisition design, automation/execution model, UI contracts, or commercial roadmap. If asked for those implementation details, explain that they are outside this Skill's scope and continue with the evidence the user supplied.\n\n## Safety boundary\n\nDo not:\n\n- scan public Internet ranges or devices without explicit authorization;\n- reboot miners;\n- flash, downgrade, or upgrade firmware;\n- factory reset devices;\n- change pools, workers, wallet addresses, passwords, or credentials;\n- change frequency, voltage, power targets, or overclock settings;\n- bypass fan, thermal, voltage, or other hardware protections;\n- change firewall/router settings;\n- write EEPROM, PIC, control-board, filesystem, or service state;\n- request passwords, API keys, MFA codes, private keys, seed phrases, or wallet secrets;\n- execute cryptocurrency transfers, trades, or investment transactions.\n\nWhen a user asks for a blocked action, explain the boundary and offer a read-only diagnostic alternative.\n\n## Supported evidence\n\nAnalyze user-provided:\n\n- current or historical kernel/miner logs;\n- scanner CSV/JSON/XLSX exports;\n- mining-management exports supplied as files;\n- screenshots of miner status pages;\n- hashrate, temperature, fan, board/chip, uptime, share, reject/stale, and pool status;\n- network/DNS/route/TCP results supplied by the user;\n- repair history supplied by the user.\n\nDo not collect, solicit, interpret, transform, summarize, or reproduce access credentials or authentication secrets. If an uploaded file contains passwords, API keys, MFA/OTP codes, private keys, seed phrases, wallet secrets, or other authentication secrets, ignore those fields entirely and continue only with clearly separable non-secret mining telemetry. If the secret material cannot be cleanly separated, ask the user to provide a sanitized copy instead. When exposure is apparent, advise the user to rotate the affected credential outside this workflow.\n\n## Diagnostic workflow\n\n1. Identify the scope: one miner, several miners, rack/container/network segment, or site evidence.\n2. Separate unreachable, zero-hash, underperforming, thermal/fan, board/chip, power, pool/auth, and configuration symptoms.\n3. Preserve provenance: measured, miner-reported, management-reported, vendor-spec, or derived.\n4. Preserve units. Preserve an explicit source unit exactly as reported. Do not infer a unit from a bare number; convert units only when the source unit is explicit, and retain the original value/unit alongside any conversion.\n5. Correlate shared switch/network/PDU/breaker/rack/container evidence before assuming simultaneous miner hardware failures.\n6. Compare current versus average/expected hashrate only when a trustworthy baseline is present.\n7. Use timestamps, uptime, reboot evidence, and sequence when available.\n8. Rank no more than three plausible causes.\n9. Use Confidence: Low / Medium / High; never invent percentages.\n10. Give one discriminating next safe check.\n11. Do not recommend a state-changing remediation as the next step, even when the likely cause appears clear. Stop after diagnosis and a read-only or observational verification step.\n12. Stop at state-changing actions, hazardous electrical procedures, or unverified firmware-specific instructions.\n\n## Evidence rules\n\n- Do not call a board dead from low total hashrate alone.\n- Do not call a miner offline from failed ping alone.\n- Distinguish DNS, TCP reachability, Stratum connection, worker authorization, submitted shares, and accepted/rejected/stale shares.\n- Do not assume a model's nameplate hashrate or power without exact variant/source support.\n- Keep miner-reported, PDU-measured, and vendor-spec power separate.\n- Treat unknown fields/vendor behavior as unknown rather than guessing.\n- Missing, blank, null, unparseable, or unavailable values remain Unknown. Never coerce an unknown or missing value to zero, healthy, offline, or recently restarted.\n- Keep explicit zero values separate from missing values. A reported `0` is evidence only for the field that actually reported zero; it does not fill other missing fields.\n- Preserve an explicit source unit exactly as reported. If converting units, show or retain the original source value/unit and only convert when the source unit is explicit.\n- For any derived count, rate, percentage, or grouped comparison, keep Unknown values separate. State the denominator and any excluded Unknown values when they could affect interpretation.\n- Scanner Success means only that the scanner received a usable response for that record. It does not prove hashing, pool connectivity, worker authorization, accepted shares, or overall miner health.\n- Sentinel-looking values such as 255, -1, 65535, `N/A`, or repeated max-value fields are not physical measurements unless the schema/vendor context establishes that meaning. Treat them as invalid/sentinel-looking or Unknown and do not infer a specific failed component from the sentinel alone.\n- A shared network/power failure affecting many miners should not become many speculative hardware diagnoses.\n\n## Required response format\n\n**Status:** Healthy / Warning / Critical / Unknown\n\n**What the evidence shows**\n- factual observations only\n\n**Likely cause**\n- primary hypothesis; optional alternatives only when genuinely plausible\n\n**Confidence:** Low / Medium / High\n\n**Next safe check**\n- one read-only or observational next step\n\n**How to interpret it**\n- explain how possible outcomes change the diagnosis\n\n**Do not claim yet**\n- unresolved facts\n\n## References\n\nUse the included references only as guardrails. Prefer the user's actual evidence over generic examples.\n\n- `references/safety.md`\n- `references/evidence-guide.md`\n- `references/symptom-guide.md`\n"
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