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# Recurring Bug Patterns

Patterns that have appeared multiple times — check here before debugging.

## Trading Bugs

### Phantom trades / PnL discrepancies
**Symptom**: Bot reports trades that don't appear on Polymarket, or P&L doesn't match wallet.
**Cause**: CLOB order placed but not filled; bot counts it as a trade before confirmation.
**Fix**: Always verify position via `PolymarketClient.get_positions()`, not local state.

### Confidence over-inflation on small moves
**Symptom**: Bot betting at 0.65-0.70 confidence on 0.03-0.05% BTC moves, losing.
**Cause**: Booster stack (volume + flow + cross-asset) adds up to +0.08 regardless of move size.
**Fix**: Move-proportional boost scale: `_boost_scale = min(1.0, abs(move_pct) / 0.08)`.
**Location**: `bot_fishy.py` before the booster section.

### CL-EARLY tier multipliers never firing
**Symptom**: All trades at $10 base size even when conf > 0.88.
**Cause**: `hard_cap_usdc` was $14, but tier2 (2.4x) = $24 — always capped.
**Fix**: Raised `hard_cap_usdc` to $25.

### Auto-tune overwriting manual config
**Symptom**: toxic_hours or min_move back to old values after manual reset.
**Cause**: `strategy_adaptor` auto-tune runs on schedule and uses historical data.
**Fix**: Add fields to `config_locked_fields` in `trading_config.json` to protect them.

## Bot / Discord Bugs

### Bot not responding to commands
**Debug order**: `systemctl status` → recent logs → `should_respond()` logic → memory files → taskboard.

### Duplicate task callbacks / EXEC spam
**Symptom**: EXEC fires the same strategy message 7+ times.
**Cause**: Task processor loop bug — task marked processed but re-processed on next tick.
**Fix**: Add `not r.get("processed")` check before processing; set `report["processed"] = True` after.

### bot_fishy.py rolling win-rate cooldown broken
**Symptom**: Circuit breaker fires too early or too late.
**Cause**: Rolling window was 8 trades; at 2 trades/hour actual volume, too few samples.
**Fix**: Extended to 16 trades, threshold stays 35%, cooldown 15min. Plus 2-red-window correlation skip.

## Infrastructure Bugs

### systemd EnvironmentFile in wrong section
**Symptom**: `systemctl start` fails with "Invalid section" error.
**Cause**: `EnvironmentFile=` placed in `[Install]` section instead of `[Service]`.
**Fix**: Move `EnvironmentFile=` line to `[Service]` section.

### VPS can't resolve own domain
**Symptom**: `curl https://wiki.deepbluebase.xyz` fails with DNS resolution error from within the server.
**Cause**: Local DNS doesn't see the new A record (external-only DNS propagation).
**Fix**: Use `--resolve domain:443:IP` for local testing, or test from external host.

### Port 5432 already in use for Docker
**Symptom**: `docker run -p 5432:5432 postgres` fails.
**Cause**: System PostgreSQL already running on 5432.
**Fix**: Map to a different host port: `-p 5433:5432`.

## Graphify / Knowledge Graph Bugs

### Recursion depth exceeded during graph build
**Symptom**: Python `RecursionError` when running graphify on bots/.
**Cause**: `_rebuild_code()` follows symlinks and descends into node_modules (55k+ JS/TS files).
**Fix**: Manually collect only `.py` files with explicit exclusion: node_modules, __pycache__, symlinks, .* dirs.

### `generate()` called with wrong arguments
**Symptom**: `TypeError: generate() missing 7 required positional arguments`.
**Cause**: Report generation function has a long signature that must be called exactly.
**Fix**: Call: `generate(G, communities, cohesion, labels, gods, surprises, detection, token_cost, root, suggested_questions=questions)`

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