Step 03 · assignment FAIL

Test plan: colima-assignment @ 10f80d6e

Container: hermes-testbed · Image: unknown · atm: 1.5.18 · Recorded: 2026-09-14T15:42:10Z

Cases

1. three-queued-then-one-ready fail

Blocked before any task could be assigned. `ATM_IDENTITY=fx-at10-alpha ATM_TEAM=fx-at10 atm doctor --json` -> exit 4: "HTTP client could not connect to the configured daemon endpoint\n Recovery: Ensure atm-daemon binary is installed, then restore the single local daemon to a healthy serving state and retry." `atm list --json` under the same identity returns the identical error/exit code. Team `fx-at10` and members alpha/beta/gamma had to be created first via `atm teams add-member` (roster commands succeeded, mailbox/daemon commands did not), confirming the daemon's HTTP mailbox service itself is unreachable rather than a roster problem.

2. close-releases-next skip

Not attempted: case 1 never produced a task-id to close/verify against, because task assignment requires the same unreachable daemon endpoint reported in step 1.

3. reassign-notifies-both skip

Not attempted: `atm task assign`/`atm task move` need the daemon connection that failed in step 1; no queued task exists to reassign.

4. move-head-readies-once skip

Not attempted: requires two assigned tasks from a working `atm task assign`, unavailable while the daemon endpoint is unreachable.

5. cancel-notifies-assignee skip

Not attempted: requires a queued task from `atm task assign`, unavailable while the daemon endpoint is unreachable.

6. busy-assigner-sees-terminal-lines skip

Not attempted: requires `atm task assign` + `atm task start` + `atm task list --json`, all of which return exit 4 "HTTP client could not connect to the configured daemon endpoint" against this daemon.

7. cleanup skip

No tasks were ever created (all `atm task assign` prerequisites were unreachable), so there is nothing for `atm task close` to close. `atm task list --json` (identity fx-at10-alpha, team fx-at10) still returns exit 4 "HTTP client could not connect to the configured daemon endpoint" at end of run.

prompt-AT10.json

{
  "schema": "prompt-report-1",
  "test_id": "AT10-assignment",
  "agent": "claude-code",
  "steps": [
    {"name": "three-queued-then-one-ready", "status": "fail", "detail": "Blocked before any task could be assigned. `ATM_IDENTITY=fx-at10-alpha ATM_TEAM=fx-at10 atm doctor --json` -> exit 4: \"HTTP client could not connect to the configured daemon endpoint\\n  Recovery: Ensure atm-daemon binary is installed, then restore the single local daemon to a healthy serving state and retry.\" `atm list --json` under the same identity returns the identical error/exit code. Team `fx-at10` and members alpha/beta/gamma had to be created first via `atm teams add-member` (roster commands succeeded, mailbox/daemon commands did not), confirming the daemon's HTTP mailbox service itself is unreachable rather than a roster problem."},
    {"name": "close-releases-next", "status": "skip", "detail": "Not attempted: case 1 never produced a task-id to close/verify against, because task assignment requires the same unreachable daemon endpoint reported in step 1."},
    {"name": "reassign-notifies-both", "status": "skip", "detail": "Not attempted: `atm task assign`/`atm task move` need the daemon connection that failed in step 1; no queued task exists to reassign."},
    {"name": "move-head-readies-once", "status": "skip", "detail": "Not attempted: requires two assigned tasks from a working `atm task assign`, unavailable while the daemon endpoint is unreachable."},
    {"name": "cancel-notifies-assignee", "status": "skip", "detail": "Not attempted: requires a queued task from `atm task assign`, unavailable while the daemon endpoint is unreachable."},
    {"name": "busy-assigner-sees-terminal-lines", "status": "skip", "detail": "Not attempted: requires `atm task assign` + `atm task start` + `atm task list --json`, all of which return exit 4 \"HTTP client could not connect to the configured daemon endpoint\" against this daemon."},
    {"name": "cleanup", "status": "skip", "detail": "No tasks were ever created (all `atm task assign` prerequisites were unreachable), so there is nothing for `atm task close` to close. `atm task list --json` (identity fx-at10-alpha, team fx-at10) still returns exit 4 \"HTTP client could not connect to the configured daemon endpoint\" at end of run."}
  ],
  "verdict": "fail",
  "atm_versions": {"atm": "1.5.18", "hermes_atm": "unavailable: atm doctor --json (which reports daemon_context.version) returns exit 4, daemon unreachable", "atm_graft": "unavailable: atm doctor --json (which reports daemon_context.version) returns exit 4, daemon unreachable"},
  "started_at": "2026-09-14T15:37:39Z",
  "finished_at": "2026-09-14T15:42:10Z"
}

run-prompts.log

prompt: /opt/testbed/prompts/atm-team/AT10-assignment.md (agent=claude-code model=sonnet timeout=900s)
SMOKE-REPORT-WRITTEN /opt/testbed/results/prompt-AT10.json

**Root cause:** the ATM daemon's HTTP mailbox endpoint is unreachable in this fixture. `atm teams add-member`/`atm members` (roster operations) succeeded, letting me bootstrap team `fx-at10` with alpha/beta/gamma, but every mailbox/task command (`atm doctor --json`, `atm list --json`) returned exit 4 with "HTTP client could not connect to the configured daemon endpoint," confirmed across two identities and over 2 minutes of foreground polling. `atm task assign` therefore could never succeed, so none of the six AT10 cases could run.

**Fix:** none possible from this identity — restarting `atm-daemon` requires root, and `harness/restart-daemon.sh` is explicitly designed to be invoked out-of-band by the outer coordinator via `docker exec`, never by the unprivileged fixture agent (`hermes`, no sudo available here).

All six cases plus cleanup are reported fail/skip with the exact CLI output as evidence in `/opt/testbed/results/prompt-AT10.json`; overall verdict `fail`.
VERDICT AT10: fail (/opt/testbed/results/prompt-AT10.json)