challenge-troubleshoot

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Use when something in the Simulation Challenge pipeline is misbehaving — auth errors, agent disconnects, jobs stuck in Pending, jobs ending in Failed, drain frames. Maps a symptom to its likely cause and the next command to run.

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challenge-troubleshoot — Symptom → cause → next command

When the user reports a problem, do this in order:

Reproduce / verify the symptom with a read-only call (/result, /log, /current-user-info) before doing anything destructive.
Match the symptom to the table below.
Hand the user the next command from the Action column. Do NOT auto-resubmit jobs (quota cost) or auto-kill agents (loses in-flight cases) without explicit confirmation.

Diagnostic heuristic: 4xx is never a network blip

A structured {"status":"error", ...} body with HTTP 4xx (400/401/403/404) is a semantic rejection by the platform — the request reached the server and was refused on its merits. Retrying it without changing the request gets the same answer and, for POST /api/challenge/job, burns 1/4 daily quota each time.

Only these qualify as transient and may be retried with backoff:

TCP connection reset / timeout / DNS failure (curl exits non-zero before getting a response)
HTTP 5xx (server-side, signals a transient backend failure)

If the user says "可能是网络抖动 / maybe a network blip" but you have a 4xx body in hand, push back: name the actual error and point at the table row.

Diagnostic heuristic: 5xx is often a missing / wrong token, not a real platform outage

curl -fsS collapses any HTTP 5xx to a terse (22) The requested URL returned error: 5XX and hides the body. Before concluding the platform is down, check this in order:

State file sourced? Each Bash call should start with [ -f ~/.simubotix-challenge.env ] && . ~/.simubotix-challenge.env — AI assistants spawn every command in a new subshell, so plain export from a previous call is gone.
Token presence after sourcing. echo "len=${#CHALLENGE_TOKEN}" — if it's 0, either the file doesn't exist (re-run challenge-login Step 1) or the file exists but doesn't contain the key (the previous login silently failed — see challenge-login Step 1's status check).
Token shape. Should be a 3-segment JWT (two dots). echo "$CHALLENGE_TOKEN" | head -c 20; echo — gibberish or null means a previous step persisted a bad value.

Body of the actual response. Drop -f so curl prints the body even on non-2xx:

[ -f ~/.simubotix-challenge.env ] && . ~/.simubotix-challenge.env
curl -sS -i "$BASE_URL/api/challenge/current-user-info" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHALLENGE_TOKEN" | tail -15

The body usually says exactly what's wrong (often a 401-style message returned with a 500 status code).

Only after the token is confirmed valid (e.g. the same value just succeeded against /login) should you treat the 5xx as a real platform issue and retry with backoff.

Symptom table

#	Symptom	Likely cause	Action
1	`POST /api/challenge/job` returns HTTP 400 `invalid board` / `no task templates for board`	`config.board` is missing or not in the currently-supported set	Today the supported values are `instruction` (default), `spatial`, `manip`, `robust`. Use one of those and resubmit. Do not retry the same wrong board — 400 is a semantic rejection, retrying burns 1/4 daily quota each time. This holds even when the user says "maybe a network blip" — see the heuristic above. If a contestant insists a new board exists, verify against `../user-manual.md` / organizers first.
2	`POST /api/challenge/job` returns an "upload limit" error / `/api/challenge/submission/quota` returns `remaining: 0`	Today's 4-submissions quota is used up	Wait until Beijing midnight (UTC+8), or work with an existing job.
3	Any `/api/challenge/*` call (login, result, log, job, tunnel-endpoint, or the WS handshake) returns `401`	Invalid / expired `access_token`; for the WS handshake also: `job_uuid` not owned by this account	`challenge-login` Step 3 to refresh; if refresh also 401s, fall back to Step 1 (email + password). For the WS handshake specifically, also verify `JOB_UUID` came from this account's `POST /api/challenge/job`.
4	Agent connects, then immediately disconnects	Per-user `parallelism` cap exceeded — too many agents online	Reduce K in `challenge-run-agent`, or wait for older agents to finish.
5	Job stuck in `Pending` / `Running` with no score change for minutes	No agent online, or all agents dropped past the 30 s window	`ps`/check the agent processes; relaunch via `challenge-run-agent` if needed.
6	Agent disconnected unexpectedly mid-run	Network blip	Within the gateway-side 30 s reconnect window, the SDK / `tunnel.sh` redials automatically with the same `agent_id` to resume the open session. Do not manually relaunch in that window — you'd race the SDK and the gateway will reject the duplicate. Past 30 s the open session is gone; resubmitting a new job costs 1/4 daily quota — confirm before suggesting it.
7	Received `drain` control frame	Platform finished dispatching cases and is asking for graceful shutdown	Let in-flight sessions finish, close the socket, and do NOT reconnect.
8	Job ended in `Failed`	An evaluation case crashed	`GET /api/challenge/job/$JOB_ID/log` (see `challenge-poll-result`); read the latest stderr / exit code. Common causes: handler exception during warmup (see row #11 — surfaces here, not just as "stuck WARMUP"), OOM, action-encoding mismatch. Fix the bug locally before resubmitting — resubmission costs 1/4 daily quota.
9	`/api/challenge/tunnel/endpoint` returns empty string	Gateway not yet ready	Fall back to the fixed default `ws://120.92.88.78/api/challenge/tunnel`; the endpoint may simply be omitted because the host never changes.
10	`parallelism` in the job response is `0`	User's `MaxConcurrentCases` is misconfigured (not "exhausted" — exhaustion is a runtime gateway check, not a response field)	Stop and surface to organizers; do not launch agents.
11	Agent stuck in `WARMUP`, never reaches `RUNNING` — or the job ends `Failed` with a traceback referencing `frame_bytes=b''` / zero-length decode in the `/log` output	Inference handler errored on the warmup empty frame	The warmup call passes an empty frame — handlers must tolerate that (e.g. short-circuit when `len(frame_bytes) == 0` and return a no-op action). Fix in the inference repo, then resubmit (mind quota).
12	`tunnel.sh` exits with code 1 immediately	Bad arguments / handler import failure / reconnect retries exhausted	Re-check `<gpu_index> <job_uuid> <gateway_url>` argument order; check inference-repo handler import path.
13	`tunnel.sh` exits with code 130	Ctrl-C	Expected; user-driven.
14	`POST /api/challenge/job` returns HTTP 400 `paper_link is not a valid URL` / `paper_link too long`	Optional `paper_link` field is malformed or > 512 chars	Fix the URL or omit the field entirely; resubmit. Counts as 1/4 quota only if the call gets past validation.

Diagnostics shortlist

Run these in order when triaging an unclear failure:

# 1. Token still valid?
curl -fsS "$BASE_URL/api/challenge/current-user-info" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHALLENGE_TOKEN" | jq

# 2. Job exists, what status?
curl -fsS "$BASE_URL/api/challenge/job/$JOB_ID/result" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHALLENGE_TOKEN" | jq

# 3. If Failed, get the log
curl -fsS "$BASE_URL/api/challenge/job/$JOB_ID/log" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHALLENGE_TOKEN" | jq

# 4. Gateway endpoint sane?
curl -fsS "$BASE_URL/api/challenge/tunnel/endpoint" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHALLENGE_TOKEN"

Things NOT to do

The gateway host is fixed at 120.92.88.78: BASE_URL=http://120.92.88.78, TUNNEL_ENDPOINT=ws://120.92.88.78/api/challenge/tunnel. Prefer a tunnel_endpoint from the job response if present, but the fixed default is a safe fallback.
Do not reconnect after a drain — the platform is finishing up, and the connection will be rejected.
Do not spam POST /api/challenge/job to "retry" — each call is one of the four daily slots. Remaining quota is not authorization to guess (e.g. guessing a board because "quota 还有"). Skill rules forbid the guess itself, independent of remaining slots.
Do not kill running agents to "free a slot" without checking /result first; you may be killing the agent that's about to finish your last case.
Do not retry a 4xx as if it were a network blip — see the diagnostic heuristic at the top of this file.

Reference

For the WS wire protocol (binary frame layout, control frames, state machine), see ../tunnel-protocol.md. Most contestants don't need it — ./scripts/tunnel.sh from the inference repo wraps the official SDK.