Notebook discipline for flaky triage

Start each triage entry with timestamp, branch, seed data version, and whether the failure reproduced locally. That header takes twenty seconds and prevents duplicate work across shifts.

Add a hypothesis line before you change waits—future you will appreciate the paper trail. We share a template inside Flaky Test Field Surgery.

Close the entry with next action: merge fix, quarantine, or escalate to platform. Open loops die when the action is explicit.

If you only adopt one field, adopt the seed data version. Half of ghost failures trace to stale fixtures.