{
 "id": "a-status-check-that-reads-the-shell-environment",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "A status check that reads the shell environment reports a bench as broken while every run it describes authenticates fine",
 "symptom": "A preflight status script prints a red 'no model credential -> run: claude setup-token, then export CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN=...' while the runner it is supposed to describe launches jobs that authenticate correctly every time. Read literally, the check says the bench cannot run at all, which is the kind of thing that stops a session from starting authorised work.",
 "sw": [
  "python3",
  "bash"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64",
  "debian-13"
 ],
 "intent": "Trusting a preflight status script before starting unattended work",
 "date": "2026-08-28",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}