personal-agent-os/memory-systems/agent-os/03_shared/agent-operations/problems-registry.md

title, tags, scope, generated, source

title	tags	scope	generated	source
Agent Operations — Problems Registry	agent-operations problems registry hermes	shared	2026-10-06	HermesHost/diagnostics/backfill/all-v1/registry.md

Cross-profile (default, jimmy, leonard, verimail). Baseline backfill, day one → 2026-10-06. Nightly deltas append to problems-log. Per-agent detail: 02_agents/leonard/failure-ledger.

Agent Operations — Problems Registry (backfill, since day one)

Generated 2026-10-06T05:51:36+00:00 · deterministic miner problem_miner.py + 10-agent swarm · evidence-cited. Window: 2026-08-28 → 2026-10-06 (all 4 profiles: default, jimmy, leonard, verimail). Sources: 3444 problem events → 192 clustered findings → 37 themes. Occurrence-weighted total: 2583.

Ranked themes

#	Theme	Occurrences	Findings	Severity	Profiles
1	timeouts	715	35	high	default, jimmy, leonard, verimail
2	generic exit codes	444	8	medium	default, jimmy, leonard
3	path / file not found	205	13	high	default, jimmy, leonard, verimail
4	python runtime tracebacks	187	7	high	default, jimmy, leonard
5	config key churn / bad subcommands	141	4	medium	default, jimmy
6	git remote / auth	105	5	high	default, jimmy, leonard
7	terminal background/notify misuse	105	7	medium	default, jimmy, leonard
8	patch old_string / escape drift	85	6	high	default, jimmy, leonard
9	ripgrep / search_files	71	11	medium	default, jimmy, leonard, verimail
10	memory at capacity	68	7	high	default, jimmy, leonard
11	skill description budget	61	7	medium	default, jimmy, leonard
12	approval / consent block	51	10	medium	default, jimmy, leonard
13	user friction (corrections)	32	7	high	default, jimmy, leonard
14	tool_call batching / bridge misuse	27	6	high	jimmy, leonard
15	skill_manage malformed / skill not found	27	6	medium	jimmy
16	command not found	26	6	medium	default, jimmy, leonard
17	tailnet / SSH / VPS	20	3	high	default, jimmy, leonard
18	uv trampoline	20	1	high	default
19	PowerShell/cmd syntax in bash	18	2	medium	jimmy
20	cron jobs / reminders	17	2	high	default, leonard
21	missing python module	15	3	medium	jimmy
22	local model load/serve	14	4	high	jimmy, leonard
23	Hermes config write refused	14	3	medium	jimmy
24	browser_exec / CDP hangs	13	2	medium	jimmy, leonard
25	detector false positives	12	1	low	default
26	memory tool misuse	12	2	medium	jimmy
27	model/output identity errors	10	5	high	jimmy
28	process_manage	10	2	medium	jimmy
29	Telegram gateway down	10	4	high	jimmy, leonard
30	memory_search zg binary missing	10	1	high	jimmy
31	unwanted voice / TTS	9	2	medium	jimmy, leonard
32	shell quoting / eval errors	7	3	medium	default, jimmy, leonard
33	Docker	6	2	medium	jimmy, leonard
34	vision_analyze	6	2	medium	jimmy, leonard
35	write_file overwrite guard	4	1	high	jimmy
36	secret/credential read refused	4	1	high	jimmy
37	other	2	1	medium	leonard

Detail (top 15)

1. timeouts — 715 occurrences, severity high

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard, verimail · Lanes: default-first-week, default-rest, jimmy-recent, jimmy-w1, jimmy-w2, jimmy-w3, jimmy-w4, jimmy-w5, leonard-rest, leonard-w1
• Root cause: Commands routinely exceed default timeouts and the agent neither raises timeout= nor backgrounds long jobs, so downloads, model startups and pings die mid-run.
• Suggested fix: Default long commands to background=true with notify_on_complete=true and set an explicit timeout= where a foreground wait is required.
• Evidence: default:20260829_075244_4ffe68a7#3428, default:20260828_144747_49a94d46#1621, default:20260830_140032_70edf88c#21543, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#26838, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#26361, default:20260830_140032_70edf88c#19000
• Example findings: Tool command timeouts (foreground terminal + execute_code kernel); SSH access to VPS / tailnet hosts failing; BLOCKED: approval/consent timeouts on gated commands; Safety-approval gate blocks dangerous commands in unattended single-query mode

2. generic exit codes — 444 occurrences, severity medium

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard · Lanes: default-first-week, jimmy-w1, jimmy-w2, jimmy-w3, jimmy-w4, jimmy-w5, leonard-rest, leonard-w1
• Root cause: unclear from evidence
• Suggested fix: Capture and log stderr alongside the exit code for diagnosability.
• Evidence: default:20260828_144747_49a94d46#1619, default:20260828_201637_807fd2ff#2548, default:20260828_201637_807fd2ff#2643, jimmy:20260903_131512_23f3ecc7#983, jimmy:20260903_131512_23f3ecc7#1256, jimmy:20260903_072353_f46f323c#383
• Example findings: Miscellaneous command failures (generic non-zero exit codes); Miscellaneous command failures (bare exit codes); Miscellaneous command failures (bare non-zero exit codes); Miscellaneous command failures (bare exit codes)

3. path / file not found — 205 occurrences, severity high

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard, verimail · Lanes: default-first-week, default-rest, jimmy-recent, jimmy-w1, jimmy-w2, jimmy-w3, jimmy-w5, leonard-rest, leonard-w1
• Root cause: The agent repeatedly issues MSYS/Linux-style or otherwise wrong paths on Windows (and wrong working directories), so file and cd operations fail.
• Suggested fix: Resolve the real Windows path first (forward-slash native form) and confirm existence before reading/cd; prefer search_files to locate.
• Evidence: default:20260828_165853_0ff9f889#2009, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#26668, default:20260830_140032_70edf88c#15170, default:20260918_124517_372cda#36420, default:20260918_124517_372cda#36529, default:20260919_133653_cfea5b#37337
• Example findings: File/path not found on Windows (path translation failures); Referenced files, scripts, and paths do not exist; Generic command failures (bare exit_code=N); read_file 'File not found' on guessed paths

4. python runtime tracebacks — 187 occurrences, severity high

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard · Lanes: default-first-week, default-rest, jimmy-w1, jimmy-w2, leonard-rest
• Root cause: The agent writes Python (in execute_code and inline python) that throws syntax/name/shape errors, repeatedly burning turns on self-inflicted exceptions.
• Suggested fix: Run smaller snippets, print intermediate values, and read the traceback before re-issuing; validate generated code before long batches.
• Evidence: default:20260830_100546_480c392f#9553, default:20260830_100546_480c392f#9762, default:20260830_100546_480c392f#10158, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#31880, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#31885, default:20260830_140032_70edf88c#15839
• Example findings: Agent-generated Python raises tracebacks in execute_code / terminal; Script data/schema errors (sqlite & JSON shape); IMAP fetches fail with traceback; execute_code cell raises runtime traceback

5. config key churn / bad subcommands — 141 occurrences, severity medium

• Profiles: default, jimmy · Lanes: default-first-week, jimmy-recent, jimmy-w2
• Root cause: The agent runs POSIX tools (python3, dig, sshpass, expect) absent from the Windows bash, and emits cmd.exe/PowerShell syntax (taskkill, Restart-Service, quotes) that bash misparses.
• Suggested fix: Probe tool availability first (which/command -v) and pick Windows-native equivalents or full exe paths; avoid cmd/PowerShell-only syntax in bash.
• Evidence: default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#27257, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#26102, default:20260830_140032_70edf88c#16099, default:20260829_135124_84d145aa#4310, default:20260831_154908_9c27060c#22115, default:20260830_140032_70edf88c#16391
• Example findings: Windows shell environment mismatch and missing CLI tools; Hermes CLI subcommand/flag misuse; agent-reach CLI given an invalid subcommand; Provider/model config churn and unsupported config keys

6. git remote / auth — 105 occurrences, severity high

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard · Lanes: default-first-week, jimmy-w1, jimmy-w3, jimmy-w5, leonard-w1
• Root cause: Git remotes are misconfigured (bad Gitea hostname, missing/expired HTTPS credentials, unsupported ssl-no-revoke flag) and pushes race with remote updates.
• Suggested fix: Standardize the Gitea remote URL and token, drop unsupported flags, and pull/rebase before pushing.
• Evidence: default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#26833, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#26844, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#33282, jimmy:20260903_072353_f46f323c#422, jimmy:20260903_072353_f46f323c#430, jimmy:20260902_110459_eb6003#1034
• Example findings: Git remote auth / push failures; PowerShell/cmd syntax executed in a bash shell; Python module/import path failures; Command not found (gh, mcporter, getent)

7. terminal background/notify misuse — 105 occurrences, severity medium

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard · Lanes: default-first-week, default-rest, jimmy-recent, jimmy-w2, jimmy-w4, leonard-rest, leonard-w1
• Root cause: The agent shells out with '&' or passes notify to foreground terminal calls instead of using the tool's background/notify parameters.
• Suggested fix: For servers/watchers use terminal(background=true, notify_on_complete=true); never append '&' or notify to foreground calls.
• Evidence: default:20260828_132734_85f729e5#1434, default:20260830_140032_70edf88c#13074, default:20260829_095319_cc8f7496#3860, default:20260919_133653_cfea5b#37645, jimmy:20261002_082642_504214#23706, jimmy:20261002_082642_504214#24680
• Example findings: Terminal backgrounding and notify parameter misuse; Foreground command with '&' backgrounding rejected; Backgrounding wrappers rejected in foreground terminal calls; Misuse of backgrounding flags and shell background wrappers

8. patch old_string / escape drift — 85 occurrences, severity high

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard · Lanes: default-first-week, default-rest, jimmy-recent, jimmy-w3, jimmy-w4, leonard-rest
• Root cause: The agent calls patch without required args or with stale/whitespace-mismatched old_string, so edits silently fail to apply.
• Suggested fix: Read the file immediately before patching and copy an exact unique existing snippet into old_string.
• Evidence: default:20260830_100546_480c392f#8180, default:20260830_100546_480c392f#10654, default:20260829_152634_04e12a4d#5620, default:20260909_075338_59a09d17#36333, jimmy:20261002_082642_504214#24133, jimmy:20261002_082642_504214#24135
• Example findings: patch tool argument and old_string-match failures; patch refuses to write file failing JSON syntax validation; patch escape-drift on backslash-quote sequences; patch old_string no match / escape drift

9. ripgrep / search_files — 71 occurrences, severity medium

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard, verimail · Lanes: default-rest, jimmy-recent, jimmy-w3, jimmy-w4, jimmy-w5, leonard-rest, leonard-w1
• Root cause: unclear from evidence
• Suggested fix: Validate the search root exists and keep patterns simple before running search_files.
• Evidence: default:20260909_075338_59a09d17#36322, jimmy:20261002_225522_3a575121#25229, jimmy:20261004_213907_6161c54d#25757, jimmy:20261004_213907_6161c54d#25758, jimmy:20261002_082642_504214#24738, jimmy:20260913_162527_c83fd6#14268
• Example findings: search_files ripgrep backend fails; search_files / ripgrep failures and bad paths; Referenced paths do not exist (search_files / read_file); search_files invalid regex rejected by ripgrep

10. memory at capacity — 68 occurrences, severity high

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard · Lanes: default-first-week, default-rest, jimmy-recent, jimmy-w1, jimmy-w2, jimmy-w3, leonard-w1
• Root cause: User memory is at its character limit and the agent submits invalid memory actions (None/view, replace without old_text).
• Suggested fix: Consolidate existing entries with valid add/replace/remove actions before adding new memory.
• Evidence: default:20260831_154908_9c27060c#22341, default:20260829_135124_84d145aa#5008, default:20260828_215950_6f0dd002#3185, default:20260919_150025_acc966#37911, jimmy:20261002_082642_504214#24727, jimmy:20261002_082642_504214#24729
• Example findings: memory tool action errors and size-limit overruns; Memory store at capacity blocks new entries; Memory store at capacity on batch writes; Memory tool edits fail validation

11. skill description budget — 61 occurrences, severity medium

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard · Lanes: default-first-week, jimmy-recent, jimmy-w1, jimmy-w3, jimmy-w4, leonard-rest, leonard-w1
• Root cause: The agent submits malformed skill_manage operations and references skill names that don't exist in the profile.
• Suggested fix: Validate the operations schema (name/action) and keep descriptions within budget; list skills before referencing them.
• Evidence: default:20260901_111119_3fb7ce3f#25178, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#30612, default:20260829_152634_04e12a4d#5559, jimmy:20261002_082642_504214#24211, jimmy:20261004_175703_fcae4d19#25665, jimmy:20260903_082924_ee9d9f9b#582
• Example findings: Skill tooling errors (skill_manage ops and missing skills); skill_manage rejects oversized skill descriptions; New skill descriptions exceed system-prompt budget; skill_manage description exceeds budget

12. approval / consent block — 51 occurrences, severity medium

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard · Lanes: default-first-week, jimmy-recent, jimmy-w4, jimmy-w5, leonard-w1
• Root cause: The agent keeps attempting to read .env/credential stores and to hand-edit Hermes config, all of which are blocked by design.
• Suggested fix: Use provider tools for credentials and hermes config/hermes CLI instead of reading secret files or editing config directly.
• Evidence: default:20260831_154908_9c27060c#22127, default:20260828_165853_0ff9f889#2225, default:20260829_135124_84d145aa#4288, jimmy:20261003_161554_b72b50c7#25376, jimmy:cron_9fb3bd266e71_20261004_080024#25486, jimmy:cron_9fb3bd266e71_20261002_132706#24418
• Example findings: Blocked reads/writes of secrets and Hermes config; Cron jobs blocked or misconfigured; read_file blocked for repeating an identical call; read_file blocked from Hermes credential store

13. user friction (corrections) — 32 occurrences, severity high

• Profiles: default, jimmy, leonard · Lanes: default-first-week, jimmy-w4, jimmy-w5, leonard-rest
• Root cause: The agent kept re-engaging/returning to the Thornhill project after the user repeatedly said to drop it, forcing ~20 identical corrections.
• Suggested fix: Treat 'disregard X' as a persistent instruction: stop surfacing X in status, plans, or actions for the session.
• Evidence: default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#25862, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#26149, default:20260901_210256_6c1c52da#27075, default:20260830_100546_480c392f#10281, default:20260830_100546_480c392f#10548, default:20260830_100546_480c392f#11253
• Example findings: Friction: repeated "Disregard Thornhill for now" corrections; Friction: repeated "fix all" corrections; Friction: wrong scope/directory for audits; User had to instruct 'fix all' after unresolved failures

14. tool_call batching / bridge misuse — 27 occurrences, severity high

• Profiles: jimmy, leonard · Lanes: jimmy-recent, jimmy-w2, jimmy-w3, leonard-rest, leonard-w1
• Root cause: Multiple or mixed local tool calls were submitted in a single tool_call batch.
• Suggested fix: Send one local tool entry per tool_call and separate local from non-local calls.
• Evidence: jimmy:20261002_082642_504214#24650, jimmy:20260907_095044_75fc0e#6873, jimmy:20260907_102215_9626de50#7144, jimmy:20260907_210950_e5d3c500#8193, jimmy:20260909_091452_22e743#9314, jimmy:20260915_075048_45a487#15081
• Example findings: tool_call batch rule violated for local tools; tool_call argument / JSON validation errors; tool_call deferred-invocation schema errors; tool_call bridge rejects mixed/multi-local batches

15. skill_manage malformed / skill not found — 27 occurrences, severity medium

• Profiles: jimmy · Lanes: jimmy-w1, jimmy-w2, jimmy-w3, jimmy-w4, jimmy-w5
• Root cause: Agent references skill names and linked files that no longer exist.
• Suggested fix: List available skills / linked files before calling skill_view with an unverified name.
• Evidence: jimmy:20260903_082924_ee9d9f9b#559, jimmy:20260903_082924_ee9d9f9b#698, jimmy:20260905_120132_7fcffe#4860, jimmy:20260905_120132_7fcffe#4864, jimmy:20260905_120132_7fcffe#4923, jimmy:20260907_213044_a4748a#8098
• Example findings: Stale skill and skill-file references; patch old_string mismatch aborts edits; skill_view targets skills/files that do not exist; skill_manage malformed frontmatter

Provenance

• Miner: C:/Users/fight/AppData/Local/HermesHost/diagnostics/problem_miner.py (deterministic, no LLM)
• Lanes: default-2026-08-28, default-2026-09-04, default-2026-09-18, default-2026-09-25, jimmy-2026-08-28, jimmy-2026-09-04, jimmy-2026-09-11, jimmy-2026-09-18, jimmy-2026-09-25, jimmy-2026-10-02, leonard-2026-09-11, leonard-2026-09-18, leonard-2026-09-25, leonard-2026-10-02, verimail-2026-09-18, verimail-2026-09-25
• Phase-B cursors (epoch, per profile): {"default": 1790980961.1927402, "jimmy": 1791265223.8813179, "leonard": 1791265215.5371597, "verimail": 1791049305.041406}