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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
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**Date:** 2026-09-28
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**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.
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**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.
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**Fix / workaround:** Build big files by appending small ~30-line chunks, verifying byte count + syntax after each append.
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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.
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Related: [[Troubleshooting Index]] · [[RESTORE-HERMES]]
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