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Fix agent crash blindspot by forcing it to read traceback - #17

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Currently, program.md instructs the agent to evaluate runs via grep "^val_bpb:\|^\peak_vram_mb:" run.log. When a syntax error or OOM crash occurs, this grep outputs nothing. Because the agent never explicitly reads the raw log, it never actually sees the Python stack trace. It just hallucinates what the bug might have been, crippling its ability to 'fix it and re-run.'

This PR adds a one-sentence instruction for the agent to run tail -n 50 run.log if the grep is empty, ensuring it safely acquires the stack trace to successfully self-heal trivial crashes.

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karpathy merged commit bd75534 into karpathy:master Mar 7, 2026
cursor Bot pushed a commit to Istcity/autoresearch that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
Return the app to the Endel-era atmosphere/theme state from the 17th
Stillway commit, including classic ThemeEngine transitions and full
ContextGradient palettes. Keep GRDB removed so Xcode still builds
without the SPM package.

Co-authored-by: Istcity <Istcity@users.noreply.github.com>
cursor Bot pushed a commit to Istcity/autoresearch that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
Revert the mistaken build karpathy#17 rollback to the older Endel-era UI.
Return to the recent soft 4.8s theme morph, chip layout, onboarding
aura, and StillwayMemory persistence while keeping GRDB removed.

Co-authored-by: Istcity <Istcity@users.noreply.github.com>
cursor Bot pushed a commit to Istcity/autoresearch that referenced this pull request Sep 19, 2026
Transcript analysis: Endel atmospheres, soft 4.8s theme morph, onboarding
memory, chip layout, and stillness copy culminate at 28e0603 — not git
commit karpathy#17 (ee94e65), which the user later rejected as too old. Restore
that peak with compile fixes retained (StillwayMemory in target, no GRDB).
Keep conversation transcript text dumps; drop later timer-face experiment.

Co-authored-by: Istcity <Istcity@users.noreply.github.com>
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