TORCH/KNOWN_ISSUES.md

KNOWN_ISSUES.md

Track only active, reproducible, unresolved issues.

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[Issue title]

• Status: Open | Monitoring | Mitigated
• Area: Build | Test | Tooling | Runtime | Docs | Other
• Symptom:
• Trigger/Conditions:
• Workaround:
• Impact:
• Related notes: docs/agent-handoffs/incidents/... (optional)
• Last verified: YYYY-MM-DD

Active issues

Goose Desktop: hermit "text file busy" (ETXTBSY) blocks all node/npm commands

• Status: Active (local workaround applied, upstream fix needed)
• Area: Tooling
• Symptom: Every node/npm command fails with fatal:hermit: open /home/user/.config/goose/mcp-hermit/bin/hermit: text file busy. All Torch lock/scheduler commands are blocked.
• Trigger/Conditions: Any Goose Desktop on Linux. The Goose node wrapper downloads hermit, then runs hermit init which tries to overwrite its own running binary — Linux returns ETXTBSY.
• Workaround: Use patched setup: PATH=/home/user/.local/goose-fix/bin:$PATH before commands. Or: rm -rf ~/.config/goose/mcp-hermit then use patched wrappers. See docs/agent-handoffs/incidents/2026-02-15-hermit-text-file-busy.md for the full patch.
• Impact: Critical — 100% blocks scheduler runs, lock operations, and any npm script on Goose Desktop.
• Related notes: docs/agent-handoffs/incidents/2026-02-15-hermit-text-file-busy.md, patch at docs/agent-handoffs/incidents/goose-hermit-etxtbsy-fix.patch
• Last verified: 2026-02-15

Goose Desktop: node/npx wrappers swallow non-zero exit codes

• Status: Active (no workaround except stdout parsing)
• Area: Tooling
• Symptom: The Goose node wrapper uses node "$@" || log "Failed" which catches non-zero exits and returns 0. Torch lock:lock exit 3 (lock denied) appears as exit 0.
• Trigger/Conditions: Any Goose Desktop shell command that relies on node exit codes.
• Workaround: Parse stdout for LOCK_STATUS=denied / LOCK_STATUS=race_lost instead of relying on exit codes.
• Impact: Medium — scheduler lock-race retry logic broken; requires stdout parsing fallback.
• Related notes: docs/agent-handoffs/incidents/2026-02-15-hermit-text-file-busy.md
• Last verified: 2026-02-15

npm test fails due to prompt contract violations

• Status: Active
• Area: Tooling
• Symptom: npm test fails with multiple [prompt-contract] errors for missing lock:complete tokens in daily/weekly agent prompts.
• Trigger/Conditions: Running npm test.
• Workaround: Run npm run validate:scheduler separately and inspect output, or ignore errors for now.
• Impact: CI/local testing blocked.
• Last verified: 2026-02-14

npm test hangs/times out in full suite run

• Status: Active
• Area: Test
• Symptom: npm test times out after 400s when running all tests together.
• Trigger/Conditions: Running npm test in CI/Sandbox.
• Workaround: Run individual test files or subsets (npm run validate:scheduler, npm run test:integration:e2e, then specific unit tests).
• Impact: Cannot verify all tests in a single pass.
• Related notes: docs/agent-handoffs/incidents/2026-02-16-npm-test-timeout.md
• Last verified: 2026-02-16

Recurring scheduler lock backend failures in recent task logs

• Status: Monitoring
• Area: Runtime
• Symptom: Multiple scheduler runs fail with Lock backend error before prompt handoff/validation.
• Trigger/Conditions: Running scheduler cycles when relay connectivity is unstable or lock backend operations time out; observed in both daily and weekly task logs.
• Workaround: Run relay preflight (npm run lock:health -- --cadence <daily|weekly>) and inspect task-logs/relay-health/<cadence>.jsonl for trend/alert data before rerunning scheduler. If scheduler logs All relays unhealthy preflight, treat it as an incident signal, defer lock attempts, and escalate relay/network checks (DNS/TLS/connectivity).
• Impact: Scheduled agent execution may be deferred early when all relays are unhealthy, preventing noisy lock retries until relay health recovers.
• Related notes: docs/agent-handoffs/learnings/2026-02-15-relay-health-preflight-job.md
• Last verified: 2026-02-15

content-audit-agent targets missing /content directory

• Status: Active
• Area: Docs
• Symptom: content-audit-agent fails to find /content directory.
• Trigger/Conditions: Running content-audit-agent.
• Workaround: None. Requires updating the agent prompt or repo structure.
• Impact: Docs audit cannot be performed.
• Last verified: 2026-02-17