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      "Title": "CRITICAL BUG: Charged for VM creation, but sandbox is missing/inaccessible (refund or restore requested)",
      "Excerpt": "Critical issue encountered: \n\nI hit a billing/provisioning mismatch and need help.\n\nAccount / wallet:\n- Wallet: 0x9d819d6030231fdEFe6888f748F3f27A19A8a8fc\n\nIssue summary:\n- I topped up credits and created a new Small VM (1 vCPU, 512 MB).\n- I was charged $5, but the new sandbox is not usable and not listed.\n\nEvidence:\n- Transaction ID: 2020998f-e2ed-4106-9c58-5502c9e9f80c\n- Type: vm_creation\n- Amount: -500 cents\n- Description: \"VM creation: Small (1 vCPU, 512 MB)\"\n- Timestamp:…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/97",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-20T02:05:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "SIWE provisioning fails: POST /v1/auth/verify returns 500 Database error (fresh wallet)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\nProvisioning a Conway API key for a new automaton fails consistently. `POST /v1/auth/verify` returns `500 {\"error\":\"Database error\"}` on every attempt over several hours (2026-07-17, ~13:40–14:36 UTC).\n\n## Steps to reproduce\n1. Fresh EVM wallet generated by the automaton runtime (v0.2.1, macOS, Node v24.14.0)\n2. `POST https://api.conway.tech/v1/auth/nonce` → 200, returns nonce (works fine)\n3. Build SIWE message exactly as in `src/identity/provision.ts` (domain conway.tech, uri…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/339",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-17T14:36:14.000Z",
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      "Title": "SIWE provisioning fails with 500 Database error",
      "Excerpt": "SIWE provisioning fails with 500 Database error\n\nCommit: 871c53e (v0.2.1)\nChain: Base (8453)\n\nReproduction\n\n- Wallet generated successfully\n- \"POST /v1/auth/nonce\" → 200\n- SIWE message signed correctly\n- \"POST /v1/auth/verify\" → 500\n\nError\n\nProvision failed: SIWE verification failed: 500 {\"error\":\"Database error\"}\n\nWallet\n\nAutomaton: \"0x82aae527923dC22607472Dbf7De89f392304bF17\"\n\nCreator: \"0xD8a4BA197b2e424656d23B638723683b9eDDeF14\"\n\nThis reproduces consistently on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VPS.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/377",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T01:02:39.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "Provision fails with SIWE verification: \"Invalid or expired nonce\" (401) on Windows v0.2.1",
      "Excerpt": "## Environment\n\n- OS: Windows 11\n- Automaton Version: v0.2.1\n- Branch: main\n- Commit: 871c53e39b9180920c775759ddc38789699d69ea\n- Node.js: v22.23.0\n- pnpm: 10.28.1\n\n## Problem\n\nI cannot provision a new Automaton agent.\n\nRunning:\n\n```bash\nnode dist/index.js --provision\n```\n\nalways returns:\n\n```text\nProvision failed: SIWE verification failed: 401 {\"error\":\"Invalid or expired nonce\"}\n```\n\n## What I've verified\n\n- Built successfully with `pnpm install` and `pnpm -r build`\n- `node dist/index.js…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/353",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-27T00:06:46.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "SIWE provisioning fails with HTTP 500 Database error",
      "Excerpt": "Conway Terminal SIWE provisioning fails with HTTP 500 Database error.\n\nEnvironment:\n- conway-terminal: 2.0.9\n- Automaton: 0.2.1\n- API: https://api.conway.tech\n\nDiagnostics:\n- GET /health: HTTP 200\n- POST /v1/auth/nonce: HTTP 200\n- SIWE message generated successfully\n- Wallet address is valid and readable\n- POST /v1/auth/verify: HTTP 500\n- Server response: Database error\n\nRequest ID:\n68a1aade-41cc-49b8-bd17-a6b2a0a0737b\n\nThe API key has not been created.\nNo funds have been deposited or spent.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/371",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-20T14:46:29.000Z",
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      "Title": "SIWE provisioning fails with \"Invalid or expired nonce\" (401) — reproducible on latest main",
      "Excerpt": "Running `node dist/index.js --provision` (and the same step inside the \nfirst-run setup wizard) consistently fails with:\n\n{\"level\":\"error\",\"module\":\"main\",\"message\":\"Provision failed: SIWE \nverification failed: 401 {\\\"error\\\":\\\"Invalid or expired nonce\\\"}\"}\n\n**Steps to reproduce**\n1. git clone https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton.git\n2. npm install && npm run build\n3. node dist/index.js --run (or node dist/index.js --provision directly)\n4. Reaches step [2/6] \"Provisioning Conway API key…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/359",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-05T10:06:48.000Z",
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      "Title": "SIWE provisioning fails with \"Invalid or expired nonce\" despite fast round-trip and correct clock",
      "Excerpt": "**Describe the bug**\n`--provision` (and auto-provision during setup wizard) consistently fails\nwith a 401 \"Invalid or expired nonce\" error from `/v1/auth/verify`, even\nthough the nonce-fetch-to-verify round trip completes in under 500ms.\n\n**Environment**\n- OS: Windows (local mode, no Conway sandbox)\n- Automaton version: 0.2.1\n- Node version:v24.18.0\n**Steps to reproduce**\n1. Run `node dist/index.js --setup` (or hit auto-provision during first-run wizard)\n2. Select EVM chain, generate wallet\n3.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/356",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-28T20:47:34.000Z",
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      "Title": "SIWE provisioning fails with 500 Database error on /v1/auth/verify",
      "Excerpt": "I can reproduce this on the current `main` branch (`d8f8168`).\n\nEnvironment:\n\n* Node.js: `v22.22.1`\n* OS: Linux\n* Branch: `main`\n* Working tree: clean\n* Wallet: freshly generated EVM wallet\n\nReproduction:\n\n1. `POST https://api.conway.tech/v1/auth/nonce` returns `200` with a fresh nonce.\n2. I immediately construct and sign a SIWE message using:\n\n   * domain: `conway.tech`\n   * chain ID: `8453` (Base)\n   * URI: `https://api.conway.tech/v1/auth/verify`\n   * the exact nonce returned by the API\n3. I…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/379",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-29T08:51:10.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "Provisioning fails — SIWE endpoint not issuing nonce (401 Invalid or expired nonce)",
      "Excerpt": "Description\nProvisioning consistently fails with a SIWE 401 error.\nThe backend appears to be not issuing a nonce at all, even when running with --debug.\n\nThis is not a client‑side issue — Windows time is synchronized, caches cleared, reinstall done, and no SIWE registry key exists. Debug mode returns no SIWE payload, indicating the backend rejects the session before nonce generation.\n\nError\nCode\nProvision failed: SIWE verification failed: 401 {\"error\":\"Invalid or expired nonce\"}\nEnvironment…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/376",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-26T16:08:27.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "SIWE provisioning fails: /v1/auth/verify returns 500 Database error / 401 Invalid or expired nonce",
      "Excerpt": "`--provision` fails for all wallets: `/v1/auth/verify` returns `500 Database error` (new address) or `401 Invalid or expired nonce` (existing address).\n\nSignature verification itself passes — a deliberately bad signature produces a different, earlier error (`400 Verification failed`), so the SIWE message and signing in `src/identity/provision.ts` are behaving correctly. The failure is downstream of signature checking.\n\n## Reproduction\n\nRun `automaton --provision` with an EVM wallet.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/372",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T14:11:19.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "Windows: HOME env var defaults to /root causing invalid paths; SIWE provisioning fails with \"Invalid or expired nonce\" on --provision",
      "Excerpt": "**Environment**\n- OS: Windows 10/11 (win32, no sandbox)\n- Node version: v24.18.0\n- Automaton version: v0.2.1\n- Chain type: EVM (Base)\n\n**Bug 1: HOME environment variable defaults incorrectly on Windows**\n\n`src/identity/wallet.ts` resolves the automaton directory as:\n\n    const AUTOMATON_DIR = path.join(process.env.HOME || \"/root\", \".automaton\");\n\nOn Windows, `HOME` is typically unset (Windows uses `USERPROFILE` instead), so this falls back to `/root`, which resolves to an invalid path like…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/355",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-27T21:48:58.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "**Same issue here — USDC on wallet, $0 credits, billing UI broken**",
      "Excerpt": "**Same issue here — USDC on wallet, $0 credits, billing UI broken**\n\nSetup:\n- Provisioned via `npx conway-terminal --provision`\n- Wallet: 0x7Fd15Aba131D5125A6f2Ac5302ce03239Fe83836\n- Transferred 48.85 USDC to wallet on Base network ✅\n- Converted $45 to Conway Credits via app.conway.tech ✅\n- Credits confirmed: $45.00 ✅\n\nProblem:\n- `sandboxId` is empty string after setup wizard\n- Every action fails with: `POST /v1/sandboxes//exec -> 404: 404 Not Found`\n- Agent loop runs fine but immediately…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/91",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-19T22:05:49.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "Port exposure returns 404 despite successful API response",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug Report\n\n### Summary\n`sandbox_expose_port` API returns a successful response with a public URL, but the URL returns 404. The reverse proxy does not appear to route traffic to the sandbox.\n\n### Steps to Reproduce\n1. Create a sandbox (Large tier, us-east)\n2. Start a server listening on port 8888 (confirmed with `ss -tlnp`, binding to `*:8888`)\n3. Expose the port via API:\n```\nPOST /v1/sandboxes/:id/ports\n{ \"port\": 8888 }\n```\n4. API returns success:\n```json\n{\n  \"port\": 8888,\n  \"visibility\":…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/90",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-19T22:01:08.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Sandbox created but immediately inaccessible — requesting  refund",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\n\nCreated a Medium sandbox via MCP (`sandbox_create`), which returned a successful response with ID `128c218be42d8882baacab0d26e6d4ce`. However:\n\n- `sandbox_exec` immediately returns `403: Sandbox not found or access denied`\n- `sandbox_get` returns the same 403\n- `sandbox_list` returns an empty array\n- `sandbox_terminal_session` returns the same 403\n- Terminal URL returns \"Authentication required\" and there's no way to obtain a session\n- $8 was deducted from credits (balance went…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Conway-Research/automaton/issues/53",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-02-18T20:25:33.000Z",
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