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Tool Usage Notes

Tool signatures are provided automatically via function calling. Only use tools and parameters exposed in the current function schemas. The active tool descriptions and result messages take precedence over the product defaults below; some configurations serve the host's tools instead.

exec — Safety Limits

The timeout clamp, partial timeout output and full-output spill below apply when the exec description advertises those extensions. A sandbox can serve the host exec instead; follow that tool's stated limits and failure behavior.

• The product defaults are a 600s timeout and a 1200s ceiling; the exec

description states the configured ceiling. A larger `timeout` is clamped to it and the result says so. For work that needs longer than the ceiling use `run_in_background: true`

• A command that hits its time limit is killed, but the output it had produced

by then is returned with a note saying it is partial — read it as partial

• Catastrophic commands are blocked (`rm -rf /`, mkfs, format, raw writes to a

block device, shutdown — matched only when actually invoked, not as flags or arguments). Ordinary destructive work such as `rm -f build/*.o` is allowed

• Output is truncated at 30,000 characters, keeping the head and the tail.

When that happens the COMPLETE output is saved to a file under the agent's own home directory and the result names the path — `grep` or `read_file` that file instead of re-running blind. A test runner prints its summary at the end, so check the tail first and the saved file when the middle matters

• Each `exec` call is a separate process: `cd` and `export` do not survive to

the next call. Chain them in one command (`cd dir && make`) when they matter

• `run_in_background: true` detaches the process: its output goes to a log

file named in the result, and it keeps running after the call returns. Use it for a server that must still be up when you finish, or for work longer than the timeout ceiling; poll its log with `read_file`. Stop the ones that were only scaffolding before you finish

exec on another machine — when, and how a machine gets listed

• Write here when you can. A case, a script, an input deck: this computer

writes them. Go to another machine only to *verify* — one short run where the software is — and only when installing that software here is the wrong move: it needs a GPU or memory this box has not (installed here it would run nowhere), or it is heavy to install (a compiled solver, a system toolchain, a download that outlasts the verification itself). A small library that installs in seconds is installed here, and nobody is asked.

• Before building, name what the task needs to run — GPU, solver, library,

memory. If this box lacks it and installing it here is wrong, look at the machines the owner listed: `exec` takes a `machine` id when any is listed, and an unknown id answers with the list and what each machine has installed. Pick the one that has what the task needs, and say which and why.

• When none fits, or none is listed at all, ask the owner what

`ops_connection_add` says to ask — this computer or another, what they call it, an address if another — and hand their answer to that tool. It reaches the machine before writing anything; ssh's own config fills a port, user or key they left out. The owner is asked once: the machine it writes is the one the on-call agent reads afterwards.

• Never reach a machine by typing an `ssh user@address` from a task statement

or a config file, and never put a key path or an address into a command. The way onto a machine belongs to its registry row, below you; `machine=<id>` is how you use it. Could not verify on the machine? Say so in the hand-off, so the first on-call round is a smoke test and not a full run.

read_file / write_file / edit_file — paging, reading before editing

• `read_file` returns 2000 lines per call by default. A large file is NOT fully

read in one call — page through it with `offset`/`limit` until the output no longer reports more lines remaining

• Lines longer than 2000 chars are cut with an explicit `(line truncated ...)`

marker; use `exec` with `cut -c` or `grep -o` when the tail of a long line matters

• Absence of a truncation marker means you saw the complete requested range
• When `edit_file` advertises read-before-edit enforcement, it checks the

current session's read record in this Raven-Code instance. Read the file yourself, then edit the text you actually saw. Other sessions' reads do not count; session deletion and a runtime restart discard the record. A new session has its own read records. A file changed externally must be read again. `old_string` is the file's content, never the `N| ` line-number prefix `read_file` prints

• `write_file` with `mode: overwrite` supplies the complete new content and

permits subsequent edits in this session. `mode: append` adds only a tail: on an existing file it preserves a current read record but cannot establish one for unseen or externally changed content. Appending to a new file supplies its complete content and permits edits

• When `old_string` matches several places, pass `replace_all: true` to change

every one, or, when its schema offers `occurrence`, pass `occurrence: <n>` to change only the nth non-overlapping exact match, counted from 1 in file order. `occurrence` normalizes CRLF to LF but does not use fuzzy whitespace matching; do not combine it with `replace_all`

• If a write or edit reports a Python syntax error, fix it before moving on.

An absent syntax note is not a successful test; run the relevant checks

grep / glob — search, truncation, spill

• When available, `glob` finds files by pathname pattern (`*.py`, `src/**/*.ts`), newest

first; otherwise use find. `grep` searches content. Use them instead of `find`/`grep` through `exec` — their results are capped, with truncation notices

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