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File GH issue diagnosing traceline tool-call truncation

Session from pine-of-glass-sessions on Hugging Face by thomasmustier · MIT · condensed by Coders Talk

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GOAL

Document a UX problem in traceline where long shell tool calls are shown truncated (just the start of the command), obscuring key details like timeouts, by filing a diagnostic GitHub issue.

  1. Prompt · +0
    Traceline shows long tool calls truncated to just the start of the command, hiding key info like timeouts. Please file a GH issue that diagnoses this problem without prescribing a solution.
  2. Agent did · +0m
    Checked repo remote and confirmed target GitHub repo (tmustier/pine-of-glass) for filing the issue.
  3. Agent did · +0m
    Searched existing issues for similar reports on traceline tool call truncation/timeout; found none.
  4. Agent did · +0m
    Attempted to list repo labels via a python-parsed gh command, hit a JSON parse error, then retried with a simpler gh label list call that succeeded.
  5. Agent did · +0m
    Wrote up the issue body focused on the observation and its impact, then created GitHub issue #10 via gh issue create.
  6. Outcome · +0m
    Filed GitHub issue #10, kept diagnostic-only per instructions, no solution prescribed.
VERDICT

I'd start the prompt the same way next time, since it worked well: give the exact broken example and be explicit that I want diagnosis, not a fix, so the agent doesn't overreach into UI/rendering solutions. The label-list command failing and self-correcting wasn't a real problem, just a minor retry the agent handled on its own.

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