debugging-network-issues

Evidence-driven investigation for network, streaming, and protocol-layer bugs. Use when debugging connection resets (ECONNRESET, HTTP/2 RST_STREAM, INTERNAL_ERROR), SSE or long-polling stalls, fixed-time connection drops, CDN/proxy/CGNAT idle timeouts, or any incident where symptoms do not match the obvious cause. Applies falsification-first methodology — layered isolation experiments to pin down the responsible network layer, env-gated runtime instrumentation for non-invasive observation, and counter-review agent teams to challenge single-cause assumptions. Strongly trigger on "socket closed unexpectedly", "stream interrupted", "ECONNRESET", "HTTP/2 INTERNAL_ERROR", "fails after N seconds", "works sometimes but not always", "upstream silent for X seconds", or any scenario where the investigator might jump to conclusions before evidence. Generalizes to any multi-layer system investigation where assumption-first thinking is the failure mode.