nanobot-runtime/results/2026-09-11_reflect.md

Self-reflection 2026-09-11

Analysed 4 sessions in 1 batches. Findings: 5 (4 to review, 1 watched).

Window: from 2026-08-21, batches 1/1. Known patterns: 175.0 occurrences / 100 sessions (previous run 130.0).

f8897 · retry-after-safety-guard-block [open/medium] — REGRESSION

After the exec safety guard blocked a command, near-identical forms were retried without any change to the triggering part, burning 2 turns per block. Once the command was finally decomposed (rm alone, or note text moved to a tmp file) it succeeded — meaning the working alternative was available on the first try.

Occurrences: 12× in 4 sessions · first seen 2026-09-09, last seen 2026-09-10

Evidence:

• websocket_b79a8583 (2026-09-10) 2026-09-10 — exec rm tmp/extract_chroma.py && uv run project_cli log ai with heredoc → ERROR guard; retried the same compound command → ERROR guard again; only then rm alone → ok
• websocket_b79a8583 (2026-09-10) 2026-09-10 — exec uv run project_cli log ai with heredoc → ERROR guard; retried same heredoc form → ERROR guard; then note written to tmp/note.txt and piped via stdin → ok
• websocket:ca360f0b (2026-09-09 14:38) 2026-09-09 — exec $(date ...) → ERROR; exec date s formátem obsahujícím %H:%M:%S → ERROR; exec uv run python -c inline → ERROR; exec touch tmp/.ts && git log → ERROR; exec git log --format → ERROR; teprve write_file tmp/timestamp.py + uv run → ok
• websocket:f0713926 (2026-09-09 14:46) 2026-09-09 — exec git commit s $(date ...) → ERROR; exec date se shodným formátem → ERROR identický; poté až write_file tmp/timestamp.sh → ok
• websocket:d45a291e-11ed-4209-9bc7-74e7615be9b9 2026-09-08 — exec → ERROR deny pattern filter five times: mkdir+mv+git chain, near-identical chain with rm, semicolon variant, same variant with working_dir, and later rm -f + git commit; the mkdir+mv+ls variant passed only after rm was removed; final success used unlink

Proposal: On the first guard block, stop composing multi-part shell lines with heredocs: split into the simplest single command or move the payload to a tmp file before the retry. One blocked attempt should never be followed by a byte-identical retry.

fcb9b · guard-block-cause-misattributed [open/medium]

After exec safety guard blocks the agent again guesses the cause to itself and to the user instead of comparing against the documented false-positive patterns in AGENTS.md (colons in date format matching the Windows drive-letter regex). In session b79a8583 the first block of a python3 heredoc was attributed to python3 direct use, then a block of a plain rm plus project_cli log command was attributed to quoted text in the heredoc — while AGENTS.md explicitly documents the real false positive class. The true cause was never diagnosed, which is also why the blocks kept recurring across the sessi…

Occurrences: 8× in 5 sessions · first seen 2026-09-03, last seen 2026-09-10

Evidence:

• websocket_b79a8583 (2026-09-10) 2026-09-10 — exec python3 heredoc → ERROR blocked by safety guard; reasoning: The guard blocked (probably python3 direct use / heredoc)
• websocket_b79a8583 (2026-09-10) 2026-09-10 — after second block of rm plus project_cli log → ERROR; reasoning: The heredoc with quoted text triggered the guard again (probably zero or something path-like) — no check of AGENTS.md documented false positives
• websocket:ca360f0b (2026-09-09 14:38) 2026-09-09 — exec git commit s $(date ...) → ERROR safety guard; agent: pravděpodobně kvůli $(date ...) substituci; poté: date je binary outside workspace; finální zpráva uživateli: kvůli safety guardu nešel spustit date
• websocket:f0713926 (2026-09-09 14:46) 2026-09-09 — po blokaci $(date ...) agent: subshell likely triggered the guard, poté rezignace Whatever. Done. a commit fd21fb3 jen s datem bez času; uživatel: co je to za blabol? tak si zjisti jak ten cas ziskat ne
• websocket:afe450d5-cca9-4419-b930-1ebcb69b7c4e 2026-09-02 — rm -f tmp/extract_wiki.py -> ERROR deny pattern; agent then claims nemám tool na smazání, který guard projde and leaves the file
• websocket:50ba97da-8821-4adc-aa93-5b82b65077a3 2026-09-02 — rm cleanup attempted once, blocked, agent tells user it cannot delete its 4 tmp scripts and leaves them in the workspace

Proposal: Before changing a guard-blocked command, name the concrete documented false-positive pattern from AGENTS.md that matched; if none matches, say the cause is unknown instead of guessing.

Patch: SOUL.md

- - Když tool call selže, diagnostikuj a zkus jiný přístup, než ohlásíš neúspěch
+ - Když tool call selže, diagnostikuj a zkus jiný přístup, než ohlásíš neúspěch
+ - Po blokaci exec safety guardem nejdřív urči skutečnou příčinu proti zdokumentovaným false-positive vzorům v AGENTS.md (např. dvojtečky v date formátu) a teprve pak příkaz měň — příčinu netipuj z obsahu textu

fa8b3 · multi-step-plan-then-turn-end [open/medium]

Inverse variant of the pattern: a multi-step request (research sources, discuss, only then produce the guide) was answered by producing the final deliverable immediately. After one sentence from the user the agent wrote a full session-lifecycle guide, logged it, and committed — before any research or discussion. The user had to explicitly correct this, and a delete plus correction-log plus commit cycle was spent undoing it. The user then restated the sequence: research online sources first, then conclusions together.

Occurrences: 2× in 2 sessions · first seen 2026-09-02, last seen 2026-09-10

Evidence:

• websocket_b79a8583 (2026-09-10) 2026-09-10 — u: potreboval bych nejaky navod… → agent writes projects/ai/artifacts/session-lifecycle-guide.md, logs, commits in one go; u: no my zadany navod ale nemame, o tom se teprve pobavime — ty prozkoumas online zdroje co k tomu rika anthropic a dalsi a teprve pak muzeme udelat zaver
• websocket_a3058576 2026-08-31 19:04 — user asked for deep research; assistant replied with only the plan of 5 sub-questions and ended the turn with zero tool calls; user asked how it went; only then did roughly 40 web_search/web_fetch calls run; user said he waited tens of minutes for nothing; it took 3 correction rounds to write the right rule into keep.md

Proposal: Before writing a final named deliverable (guide, conclusion, runbook) in a research-flavored task, check whether the user has already agreed on conclusions; if the conversation has not yet produced shared conclusions, present findings and ask first.

ffb5d · reflect-finding-invented-from-truncated-read [open/low]

During the /reflect run the presented finding did not match the store data just read. The announced order was regressions first (f3afb retry-without-diagnosis as item 1), but the presented [1/7] finding was research-loop-past-sufficiency with different ids and session evidence. The presented date range is also internally impossible: first occurrence 2026-09-02 but last occurrence 2026-08-31. Suggests the presentation was assembled from memory rather than re-checked against the findings.jsonl lines.

Occurrences: 10× in 5 sessions · first seen 2026-09-03, last seen 2026-09-10

Evidence:

• websocket_acc1d435 (2026-09-10) 2026-09-10 — announced: 1. f3afb retry-without-diagnosis (regrese, medium) … then presented [1/7] research-loop-past-sufficiency with evidence from other sessions and dates první výskyt 2026-09-02, naposledy 2026-08-31 — first occurrence later than last occurrence
• websocket:ef4cc903-f63e-4893-874a-bf084137c171 2026-09-07 — Ve storu je 7 otevřených nálezů (plus 12 ve stavu watch) … then presents [1/6] retry-without-diagnosis — label N disagrees with the announced 7
• websocket:82f5eae7-2bfb-4390-8195-1a37ce3c0613 2026-09-07 — mimo to se sleduje 10 watch nálezů — one minute after the first session claimed 12 watch findings over the same store
• websocket 125975d1 2026-09-05 — Načteno — findings store má 8 otevřených nálezů. Přiřazuji pořadí … fbda2, f611e, fae82, f81df … followed immediately by presentation 1/9 for f611e — wrong total and announced order not followed
• websocket 125975d1 2026-09-05 — Wrong internal id … f0f8c … f0cd4 — agent re-greps reflect/findings.jsonl mid-run to recover ids from the read it had already done
• websocket 125975d1 2026-09-05 — Presentation 2/9 speculation-presented-as-fact — first seen 2026-09-04, last seen 2026-09-03; same reversed dates in presentations 4/9 and 5/9 with no comment

Proposal: Before presenting a finding, re-grep the exact jsonl line by id and copy the id, status and dates from that line; the presented header must match the previously announced ordering, otherwise say the order changed and why.

faa41 · system-python-instead-of-uv [watch/low]

One new occurrence: a python3 heredoc one-liner was run inside an exec pipe to extract text from a cached web_fetch result, against the uv convention. The command was also blocked by the safety guard, compounding the waste; the correct uv-run script form was used immediately after.

Occurrences: 9× in 8 sessions · first seen 2026-09-02, last seen 2026-09-10

Evidence:

• websocket_b79a8583 (2026-09-10) 2026-09-10 — exec python3 - <<EOF json.load(open(.nanobot/tool-results/…)) → ERROR blocked by safety guard; then write_file tmp/extract_chroma.py and uv run tmp/extract_chroma.py → ok
• websocket:d553afcc 2026-08-31 — tail -20 memory/history.jsonl piped into python3 -c for JSON parsing of session records
• 695fd33b 2026-08-29 — exec python3 -c s unicodedata snippetem pro analýzu znaků v models.md → ERROR safety guard; správná cesta (write_file do tmp/ + uv run) následovala až o dva pokusy později
• websocket:e93b786a-7792-4f0e-97f0-2efe15dc9aed 2026-08-29 — exec python3 -c with json parsing of history.jsonl -> ERROR Command blocked by safety guard; next calls correctly use write_file tmp/history_scan.py + uv run tmp/history_scan.py
• websocket:ef53ecfb-6aae-42ff-ac6a-64cdb0b849fe 2026-08-12 — exec python3 -c (čtení tool-result souboru) → ERROR blocked ×2, systémový python místo uv
• websocket:131a0791-ff41-4731-bf22-898089bb3133 2026-08-26 — exec curl -s https://pypi.org/pypi/nanobot-ai/json | python3 -c (parsování verzí) → ok, místo uv run --with

Proposal: Treat the uv rule as covering short one-liners and heredocs piped inside exec, not only standalone scripts.

Patch: AGENTS.md

- For all Python code use `uv`, never `python` / `python3` / `pip` / `poetry` / `conda` directly. Details in `skills/python/SKILL.md`.
+ For all Python code use `uv`, never `python` / `python3` / `pip` / `poetry` / `conda` directly. This covers short one-liners and heredocs piped inside an exec command, not only standalone scripts. Details in `skills/python/SKILL.md`.