# Pitfall Log

Project: ahwurm/localharness

Summary: Found 39 structured pitfall item(s), including 0 high/blocking item(s). Top priority: Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification.

## 1. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this installation risk before relying on the project: Version banner reads stale install metadata on editable installs — shows old version after every source update
- User impact: Developers may fail before the first successful local run: Version banner reads stale install metadata on editable installs — shows old version after every source update
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/97

## 2. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/90

## 3. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/94

## 4. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/93

## 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/97

## 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/99

## 7. 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: capability.host_targets | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness

## 8. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: Zombie docker-run client defeats the managed server's dead-process fail-fast
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: Zombie docker-run client defeats the managed server's dead-process fail-fast
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/99

## 9. 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/ahwurm/localharness

## 10. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this runtime risk before relying on the project: Mid-turn tier-2 input classification is starved by the single-flight inference gate, and its failure path is silent
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Mid-turn tier-2 input classification is starved by the single-flight inference gate, and its failure path is silent
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/92

## 11. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/84

## 12. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/95

## 13. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/85

## 14. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/92

## 15. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/88

## 16. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/91

## 17. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/96

## 18. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/86

## 19. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/89

## 20. 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/ahwurm/localharness/issues/87

## 21. 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: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/98

## 22. 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/ahwurm/localharness

## 23. 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/ahwurm/localharness

## 24. 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/ahwurm/localharness

## 25. 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: Agent loop accepts a tool-less reply that announces further work as the turn's final answer
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Agent loop accepts a tool-less reply that announces further work as the turn's final answer
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/84

## 26. 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: Contradictory sem/ atoms coexist as active — mined facts never supersede on contradiction
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Contradictory sem/ atoms coexist as active — mined facts never supersede on contradiction
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/95

## 27. 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: Discovery candidate tags never progress past 'proposed' — naming/promotion unobserved for 6+ days
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Discovery candidate tags never progress past 'proposed' — naming/promotion unobserved for 6+ days
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/90

## 28. 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: Messages typed into the input box leave no permanent record in the terminal transcript
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Messages typed into the input box leave no permanent record in the terminal transcript
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/85

## 29. 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: Mint-time classification can assign BOTH L1 buckets to one atom
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Mint-time classification can assign BOTH L1 buckets to one atom
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/88

## 30. 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: Turn summary fallback can resurface a PRIOR turn's reply when the model answers with only the confirmation sentinel
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Turn summary fallback can resurface a PRIOR turn's reply when the model answers with only the confirmation sentinel
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/91

## 31. 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: Working indicator renders in the input box's bottom border, crowding queue count and decision flash
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Working indicator renders in the input box's bottom border, crowding queue count and decision flash
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/86

## 32. 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: Write-gate novelty capture re-claims 'first successful use' of the same tool across days
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Write-gate novelty capture re-claims 'first successful use' of the same tool across days
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/89

## 33. 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: remember()-saved memories are never tagged at write time; backfill runs so late in consolidation that user activity starves it
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: remember()-saved memories are never tagged at write time; backfill runs so late in consolidation that user activity starves it
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/87

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

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this conceptual risk before relying on the project: Act-guard sentinel echo replaces the user-visible answer with the CONFIRMED meta-line
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Act-guard sentinel echo replaces the user-visible answer with the CONFIRMED meta-line
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/98

## 35. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this performance risk before relying on the project: Discovery candidates can enter permanent limbo: evidence re-accrual on unchanged clusters defeats staleness pruning
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Discovery candidates can enter permanent limbo: evidence re-accrual on unchanged clusters defeats staleness pruning
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/94

## 36. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this performance risk before relying on the project: Exiting the REPL immediately after an answer skips that turn's end-of-turn bookkeeping
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Exiting the REPL immediately after an answer skips that turn's end-of-turn bookkeeping
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/93

## 37. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this performance risk before relying on the project: Turns with an empty memory shelf are never recorded in injection traces
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Turns with an empty memory shelf are never recorded in injection traces
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/ahwurm/localharness/issues/96

## 38. 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/ahwurm/localharness

## 39. 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/ahwurm/localharness
