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Knowledge vault (Orion/PARA) migrated from the pre-Orion 484vault on 2026-10-01. Deliberately orphaned: prior history contained a plaintext password and stays local-only on branch archive/pre-boilerplate-history. Secrets and live Hermes state are gitignored.
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Hermes tool gotcha: very large write_file/execute_code payloads truncate silently
Date: 2026-09-28
Symptom: A single large write_file / execute_code payload is cut off mid-generation — reproducibly at the same token — with no error; the file/script is silently incomplete.
Diagnosis path: Byte-count the written file against the expected size; syntax-check (node --check, python -m py_compile) rather than trusting the tool's success result.
Fix / workaround: Build big files by appending small ~30-line chunks, verifying byte count + syntax after each append.
Related second gotcha: pkill -f <pattern> can match and kill the agent's own tool shell. Kill by explicit PID parsed from ss -tlnp instead.
Related: Troubleshooting Index · RESTORE-HERMES