debugging

2 posts with the tag “debugging”

My whole agent fleet showed up dead. Every process was alive.

Jul 27, 2026 - 7 min read

The cockpit showed six agents, all orphaned. ps showed six agents, all alive, happily working. Nothing had crashed. The bug wasn’t in my code — it was in which tmux server my code was talking to. Three isolation footguns, and how each one bites.

The database said zero. The agents were still running.

Jul 26, 2026 - 6 min read

Srajan Pathak

warden author

I restarted the daemon and the cockpit came up with an empty fleet. tmux still had every agent, alive and mid-task. The append-only store had lost nothing — but it loaded zero records, because a segment rotation had corrupted the index over data that was sitting right there intact.