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# Troubleshoot an instance
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What a common failure means, and what to do about it. During installation itself, the preflight
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names its own stops - what is missing, why, and the command that fixes it - and
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[INSTALL.md](../../INSTALL.md) explains them. This page covers an instance that is already set up.
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For the MCP read server, see the troubleshooting section of
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[Set up the MCP read server](set-up-the-mcp-server.md#troubleshooting).
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## `tools/wikitool` ends with `STOP - this checkout is not set up yet` (exit 42)
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The preflight has not run in this checkout yet, or not since the last update. Run it:
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```bash
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tools/preflight.sh
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```
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In PowerShell 7 on Windows, the call is
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`pwsh -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools/preflight.ps1`. The `-ExecutionPolicy Bypass`
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applies to that one process only and changes no setting.
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[instructions/preflight.md](../../instructions/preflight.md) is the procedure, and its output says
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what to install if anything is missing.
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## The agent offers no skills (`wiki-ingest`, `wiki-query`, ...)
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`.agents/skills/` and `.claude/skills/` are generated and not committed. Run:
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```bash
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tools/wikitool instructions sync
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```
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Then restart the agent session. A harness reads its skills only when the session starts.
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## `doctor` reports `personalization: FAIL`
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`USER.md` or `SOUL.md` is missing, or still carries the sentinel line from its template. A renamed
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template does not count as a filled one. Ask the agent to run the personalization step of
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[instructions/setup-instance.md](../../instructions/setup-instance.md). For a further clone of an
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older instance, that is the only step to catch up on.
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## `doctor` reports `environment: WARN`
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`ENVIRONMENT.md` exists but still carries the template's sentinel line. Fill it in (the template is
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`ENVIRONMENT.md.template`) and remove the line, or delete the file. It is optional, and `absent` is
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a valid state.
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## `doctor` reports `telemetry: WARN`
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The `telemetry` section of `.wikitool-local.json` holds something telemetry does not read as
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written: an unreadable settings file, a value that is not an object, an `enabled` that is not `true` or `false`, a cap that is not a
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positive whole number, or a key it does not know. Telemetry itself never stops on this. It ignores
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the file or the value, or reads `"no"` as on, and the line names the field. Correct the section to the
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shape in the [configuration reference](../reference/configuration.md#telemetry), or remove it to
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get the default back.
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## `new` stops with "No author configured"
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Neither `$WIKI_AUTHOR` nor `git config user.name` is set. Run `git config user.name "<Name>"`, or
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export `WIKI_AUTHOR` ([configuration](../reference/configuration.md)).
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## `publish` ends with exit 42 (Mass-Update Gate)
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Expected when ten or more files are counted, for example on the very first commit of a new instance
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or after a lint pass. It is not an error. It asks that a human see the output: the complete file
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list and the exact `--confirm <token>` line that publishes once you approve.
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[instructions/gates.md](../../instructions/gates.md) has the details.
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## `publish` ends with exit 42 (Publish-Remote Gate)
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This checkout has a `remotes.allowed_push_urls` list in `.wikitool-local.json`, and the remote being pushed to is not listed in it.
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Also not an error: the output names the push URL it would write to and the URLs that are allowed.
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Unlike the Mass-Update Gate, there is **no token and no flag** here. If the target really is right,
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you add its URL to that list yourself. An agent that edits the list to get past the refusal is
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opening a gate on its own initiative, which it must never do.
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## Setup or an update fails, and you want to report it
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Ask the agent to follow [instructions/bug-report.md](../../instructions/bug-report.md), or call
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`tools/bugreport` yourself. It works the same from Bash, Git Bash and PowerShell. It finds a
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Python 3.8 or newer by itself, skipping the Store aliases `python3` points at on Windows. It needs
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neither the preflight nor a working `wikitool`, and if it finds no Python, it says why.
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The script writes a bundle to `reports/bugreport-<timestamp>/`, with a zip beside it.
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- **What is removed:** secrets, and page titles from everything the script itself produces.
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`--titles` keeps the titles.
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- **What may still be in it:** the session trace is included by default (`--no-trace` leaves it
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out). Like the chronology and the transcripts, it can contain page content and titles. The bundle
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also contains machine, user and path names.
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- **Pseudonymising:** `--pseudonymise` replaces user, host, path, git and remote names with
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placeholders that keep their length, spaces, hyphens and path depth. The agent can then add more
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names - people, companies, customers, projects - with `--bundle … --candidates …`. That is a
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model's judgment, and it leaves a remainder: read the bundle before you share it. The mapping,
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the checklist and the candidates file contain the originals, and they sit beside the bundle,
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never in it.
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Nothing is uploaded anywhere. You choose the channel.
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