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How to repair broken Penelopa hooks without reinstalling with Penelopa AI

Run the built-in diagnose and repair commands when capture stops working.

Short answer: Run "$(cat "$HOME/.auto-improve/node-path")" "$HOME/.auto-improve/bin/penelopa.cjs" --diagnose to print diagnostics without credentials or transcripts; then run "$(cat "$HOME/.auto-improve/node-path")" "$HOME/.auto-improve/bin/penelopa.cjs" --repair to repair or update the hooks and repeat the local self-test; open Connection in the desktop app and continue a coding session. All steps.

Who it is forA developer whose Connection page stopped updating or whose agent hooks seem out of date.

The problemHooks can fall out of date or stop capturing, and reinstalling from scratch is slow and risky to the setup.

The outcomeDiagnostics show the current state, repair restores Penelopa hooks, and the account token is kept.

What you need first

  • A Penelopa account, created during installation
  • Codex or Claude Code installed on the machine
  • macOS 13.5+, Windows 10 22H2+ or Windows 11 x64 for the desktop app, or Linux x64/arm64 with kernel 4.18+ and glibc 2.28+ for hooks only
  • Internet access to penelopa.ai, nodejs.org, the npm registry and Electron release downloads
  • About 3 GB of free disk space for desktop builds

Steps

  1. Run "$(cat "$HOME/.auto-improve/node-path")" "$HOME/.auto-improve/bin/penelopa.cjs" --diagnose to print diagnostics without credentials or transcripts.
  2. Run "$(cat "$HOME/.auto-improve/node-path")" "$HOME/.auto-improve/bin/penelopa.cjs" --repair to repair or update the hooks and repeat the local self-test.
  3. Open Connection in the desktop app and continue a coding session.
  4. Confirm the status returns to Connected after a real event is observed.

Prompt for your agent

In the chigwell/Penelopa.ai repo, run the diagnose command, then the repair command, using the local private runtime path at $HOME/.auto-improve. Report the diagnostic summary and confirm the repair kept the existing account token.

Caveat. Repair keeps the account token unless a new token is supplied, and the README warns that the self-test does not prove an agent has approved its hooks.

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