Monte Carlo Reinforce Agent

Monte Carlo Reinforce Agent Skill

This skill turns Monte Carlo's reinforcement loop diagnosis into landed code fixes. Monte Carlo runs a daily reinforcement loop pipeline that analyzes an agent's traces and produces, per workflow, a report of diagnosed issues — each with supporting evidence (trace deep-links, verifier checks) and recommended fixes. This skill reads that diagnosis, ranks it, proposes what to fix, and follows through with a pull request — pausing for the user's decision at each fan-out point.

Monte Carlo tool routing (required): Always call Monte Carlo MCP tools through this plugin's bundled server, whose fully-qualified tool names are mcp__plugin_mc-agent-toolkit_monte-carlo-mcp__<tool> (e.g. mcp__plugin_mc-agent-toolkit_monte-carlo-mcp__get_reinforcement_loop_report). Bare tool names used in this skill (get_agent_metadata, get_reinforcement_loop_summaries, get_reinforcement_loop_report) refer to that bundled server. If the session also has a separately-configured monte-carlo-mcp server, do not route to it — it may point at a different endpoint or credentials.

When to activate this skill

Activate when the user:

• Wants to fix or improve an AI agent based on its Monte Carlo reinforcement loop ("fix my agent", "reinforce my agent", "improve my agent's health").
• Asks what to fix in an agent ("what are my agent's top issues", "what should I fix in ").
• Wants a PR that addresses an agent's diagnosed problems.

When NOT to activate this skill

• Investigating one agent alert or trace (eval-score drop, latency/token spike, a specific trace id) → use monte-carlo-troubleshoot-agent-traces. That skill investigates a single incident; this one acts on the standing reinforcement loop diagnosis across a workflow and writes code.
• Creating or tuning agent monitors → monte-carlo-monitoring-advisor / tune-monitor.
• Instrumenting a new agent to emit traces → monte-carlo-instrument-agent.

Prerequisites

• Monte Carlo MCP server configured and authenticated, with agent observability enabled for the account. If get_reinforcement_loop_summaries reports that the reinforcement loop is not enabled, tell the user the account isn't enrolled in the reinforcement loop pipeline and stop.
• A local checkout of the agent's codebase (this skill writes code and opens a PR against it). If the working directory isn't the agent's repo, ask the user for the path before Step 4.

MCP Tools Used

Workflow

The flow is user-gated at every fan-out — never expand or act autonomously. The number of get_reinforcement_loop_report calls is bounded by what the user picks, not by how many workflows exist.

Step 1: Resolve the agent

The user triggers this skill with a specific agent in mind — expect them to name it ("reinforce the chat agent", "fix ai-agent"). This step's job is to turn that name into the exact identifiers the reinforcement loop tools need.

Call get_agent_metadata and match the user's name against each entry's agentName and displayName (users often use the friendly display name, not the canonical one). Use the matched entry's agentName + traceTableMcon together for every later call — the trace table disambiguates agents that share a name.

• No agent named: list the available agents (canonical name + display name) and ask which one.
• Ambiguous match (same name across trace tables, or a substring matching several): list the candidates with their trace tables / warehouses and ask the user to pick — never guess the trace_table_mcon.
• No match: tell the user and show the available agents.

Step 2: Triage the workflows (reinforcement loop overview)

Call get_reinforcement_loop_summaries(agent_name, trace_table_mcon) — one cheap call covering every workflow. Then:

• Drop workflows with issue_count == 0 (clean reports).
• Rank the rest by health severity (CRITICAL → HIGH → MEDIUM → LOW), then by issue_count.
• Present the ranked list as a short table: workflow · health · issue count · last diagnosed.

Gate — ask the user which workflow(s) to dig into. Do NOT call get_reinforcement_loop_report for every workflow. Default the suggestion to the single worst workflow; let the user pick one or a few. Only the chosen workflows get expanded in Step 3.

Step 3: Deep-dive the chosen workflow(s)

For each workflow the user chose, call get_reinforcement_loop_report(agent_name, workflow_name, trace_table_mcon). The response is a single markdown brief: a report header (health, coverage, window, and what changed since the last report) followed by one section per issue. Each issue section is self-contained — the summary, the evidence with clickable trace deep-links, and the recommended actions — so identifying the top issues happens in-context from this one call. No per-issue tool calls are needed.

From the brief, pick the top issues by severity/priority. Prefer issues whose evidence includes a concrete node/tool and code-referable checks (those are the most directly fixable in code).

Step 4: Propose what to fix

Summarize the top issues for the user in plain language — for each: what's wrong (the issue summary), the evidence, and the recommended fix. Call out signals that change the action:

• Existing Linear ticket on an issue → the problem is already tracked; plan to reference/update that ticket, not open a duplicate.
• Proposed monitor on an issue (proposed_monitor_yaml present in the brief) → the recommended remediation may be a monitor rather than a code change; surface that as an option.
• Issues whose root cause is external (e.g. client-cancellation, upstream timeouts) may not be code-fixable in this repo — say so rather than forcing a change.

Gate — ask the user which issue(s) to fix now. Fix one issue at a time. Confirm the target before writing any code.

Step 5: Follow through with a PR

For the chosen issue:

1. Use the issue's brief (its evidence and recommended actions) as the specification — it already contains the failing traces, the implicated node/tool, and the concrete steps to take. Locate the relevant code in the user's repo and implement the smallest change that addresses the recommended action.
2. Follow the repo's conventions (branch off the default branch, match surrounding code and commit style). One issue → one focused PR.
3. In the PR description, link the diagnosed issue and its evidence (trace deep-links from the brief) so a reviewer can trace the fix back to the signal. If the issue has an existing Linear ticket, reference it instead of describing the problem from scratch.

Gate — confirm before pushing / opening the PR. Show the diff and the PR body, and only push after the user approves. Then, if the user wants, return to Step 4 for the next issue (or Step 2 for the next workflow).

Important rules

• Never fan out eagerly. get_reinforcement_loop_summaries is the triage layer; call get_reinforcement_loop_report only for user-chosen workflows. Expanding every workflow wastes context on reports no one will act on.
• One issue → one PR. Keep changes focused and reviewable; iterate rather than batch.
• Human checkpoint before code and before push. This skill writes and proposes code; it never commits or opens a PR without explicit approval.
• Don't re-file tracked issues. If an issue already carries a Linear ticket, reference/update it.
• Read-only diagnosis. The three MCP tools here are read-only and consume no Monte Carlo credits; the only side effects are the git branch/PR you create with the user's approval.