# Pitfall Log

Project: kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg

Summary: Found 38 structured pitfall item(s), including 1 high/blocking item(s). Top priority: Security or permission risk - Security or permission risk requires verification.

## 1. Security or permission risk - Security or permission risk requires verification

- Severity: high
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a security or permission risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1144

## 2. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this installation risk before relying on the project: bug: HF/ONNX model download fails behind corporate TLS-MITM — no custom CA support
- User impact: Developers may fail before the first successful local run: bug: HF/ONNX model download fails behind corporate TLS-MITM — no custom CA support
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1146

## 3. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this installation risk before relying on the project: bug: kreuzberg maps PDF ligature glyphs to C0 control characters
- User impact: Developers may fail before the first successful local run: bug: kreuzberg maps PDF ligature glyphs to C0 control characters
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1135

## 4. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this installation risk before relying on the project: feat: support PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 and PP-OCRv6 models
- User impact: Developers may fail before the first successful local run: feat: support PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 and PP-OCRv6 models
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1149

## 5. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1132

## 6. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1147

## 7. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1145

## 8. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1148

## 9. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1135

## 10. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1098

## 11. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/649

## 12. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1149

## 13. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1151

## 14. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: Default OcrConfig() raises ValueError (VlmFallbackPolicy "disabled")
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: Default OcrConfig() raises ValueError (VlmFallbackPolicy "disabled")
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1150

## 15. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: bug: Defer Tesseract FFI handle allocation; audit OCR registry touchpoints on non-OCR paths
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: bug: Defer Tesseract FFI handle allocation; audit OCR registry touchpoints on non-OCR paths
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1129

## 16. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: bug: Docker container does not respond to stop signals, resulting in timeout
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: bug: Docker container does not respond to stop signals, resulting in timeout
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1147

## 17. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: bug: OCR bakes the build-runner's TESSDATA path into the released binary
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: bug: OCR bakes the build-runner's TESSDATA path into the released binary
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1145

## 18. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: bug: multiple language ocr in easyocr not working from python
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: bug: multiple language ocr in easyocr not working from python
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1139

## 19. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: bug: section heading present in markdown output but missing from `result.elements` on the same page
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: bug: section heading present in markdown output but missing from `result.elements` on the same page
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1098

## 20. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: bug: split table chunks lose header/context after the first chunk
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: bug: split table chunks lose header/context after the first chunk
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1100

## 21. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: feat: ExtractedImage.data JSON wire size: add base64 (or hex) encoding option
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: feat: ExtractedImage.data JSON wire size: add base64 (or hex) encoding option
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1117

## 22. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: feat: markdown footnote and citation parsing API
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: feat: markdown footnote and citation parsing API
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/649

## 23. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: feat: sentence-level pruning (prune_async / open_provence) mirroring the reranker
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: feat: sentence-level pruning (prune_async / open_provence) mirroring the reranker
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1144

## 24. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a configuration risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1150

## 25. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a configuration risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1129

## 26. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a configuration risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1139

## 27. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: README/documentation is current enough for a first validation pass.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: capability.assumptions | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg

## 28. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a runtime risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1153

## 29. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this migration risk before relying on the project: No cheap PDF page count in 5.x (PdfPageIterator removed)
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: No cheap PDF page count in 5.x (PdfPageIterator removed)
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1153

## 30. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a maintenance risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg

## 31. Security or permission risk - Security or permission risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: no_demo
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: downstream_validation.risk_items | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg

## 32. Security or permission risk - Security or permission risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: no_demo
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: risks.scoring_risks | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg

## 33. Security or permission risk - Security or permission risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a security or permission risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1146

## 34. Security or permission risk - Security or permission risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a security or permission risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1100

## 35. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this capability risk before relying on the project: bug: Processing warning for single-page very wide PDF during chunking
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: bug: Processing warning for single-page very wide PDF during chunking
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1148

## 36. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this capability risk before relying on the project: v5.0.0-rc.30: Tesseract C++ shim built without -std=c++17 (fails where compiler default < C++17)
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: v5.0.0-rc.30: Tesseract C++ shim built without -std=c++17 (fails where compiler default < C++17)
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/issues/1151

## 37. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: issue_or_pr_quality=unknown。
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg

## 38. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: release_recency=unknown。
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg