{"record":{"id":"8a8194c96daf58ee","repo":"JuliusBrussee/caveman","slug":"aider-integration-journal-lacks-owned-blocks","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"Aider integration journal lacks owned blocks","messagePattern":"Aider integration journal lacks owned blocks","errorType":"exception","errorClass":"Error","httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"packages/cli/src/index.ts","lineNumber":7693,"sourceCode":"    const mcp = root.mcp && typeof root.mcp === \"object\" && !Array.isArray(root.mcp) ? root.mcp as Record<string, unknown> : {};\n    if (mcp.caveman !== undefined && JSON.stringify(mcp.caveman) !== JSON.stringify(operation.owned?.installed_mcp)) {\n      throw new Error(\"OpenCode caveman MCP entry changed after enable; refusing destructive disable\");\n    }\n    if (mcp.caveman !== undefined) {\n      if (operation.owned?.previous_mcp === null || operation.owned?.previous_mcp === undefined) delete mcp.caveman;\n      else mcp.caveman = operation.owned.previous_mcp;\n    }\n    if (Object.keys(mcp).length > 0) root.mcp = mcp;\n    else delete root.mcp;\n    return jsonBytes(root);\n  }\n  if (operation.kind === \"aider-config\") {\n    let text = current.toString(\"utf8\");\n    const routeBlock = operation.owned?.route_block;\n    const readBlock = operation.owned?.read_block;\n    const previousRouteLine = operation.owned?.previous_route_line;\n    if (typeof routeBlock !== \"string\" || typeof readBlock !== \"string\") {\n      throw new Error(\"Aider integration journal lacks owned blocks\");\n    }\n    if (!text.includes(routeBlock) || !text.includes(readBlock)) {\n      throw new Error(\"Aider Caveman config block changed after enable; refusing destructive disable\");\n    }\n    text = text.replace(routeBlock, typeof previousRouteLine === \"string\" ? previousRouteLine : \"\");\n    text = text.replace(readBlock, \"\");\n    return Buffer.from(text.replace(/\\n{3,}/g, \"\\n\\n\"));\n  }\n  if (operation.kind === \"aider-core\") {\n    throw new Error(`${operation.file} changed after enable; refusing destructive disable`);\n  }\n  if (operation.kind === \"hermes-plugin-manifest\" || operation.kind === \"hermes-plugin-init\") {\n    throw new Error(`${operation.file} changed after enable; refusing destructive disable`);\n  }\n  if (operation.kind === \"hermes-config\") {\n    let text = current.toString(\"utf8\");\n    const routeBlock = operation.owned?.route_block;\n    const previousRouteLines = operation.owned?.previous_route_lines;","sourceCodeStart":7675,"sourceCodeEnd":7711,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/blob/2f49f0e1a352aa810e70056b7930aeb0b3d219b4/packages/cli/src/index.ts#L7675-L7711","documentation":"The Aider integration journal (~/.caveman/integrations/aider.json) exists, but its owned metadata lacks route_block or read_block as strings — the exact config snippets Caveman inserted into ~/.aider.conf.yml at enable time. Without those strings the disable cannot surgically remove its own additions, so it aborts. In practice this means the journal was written by an older Caveman schema, was truncated, or was hand-edited.","triggerScenarios":"`caveman disable aider` or `caveman doctor aider --fix` with a journal whose operations[].owned is missing/non-string route_block or read_block — typically after downgrading Caveman across a journal schema change, or after manually editing ~/.caveman/integrations/aider.json.","commonSituations":"Switching between Caveman versions (beta to stable and back); partial disk write or manual 'cleanup' of the integrations directory; copying a machine's ~/.caveman around with a partially copied journal.","solutions":["Re-run `caveman enable aider` so a fresh, schema-current journal is written against the live config, then `caveman disable aider`","Upgrade Caveman to the version that wrote the journal (the one used at enable time) and disable with it","Manual cleanup: delete the Caveman-owned blocks from ~/.aider/conf.yml, then remove ~/.caveman/integrations/aider.json (and .pending-aider.json if present)"],"exampleFix":"# before: stale/partial journal blocks disable\ncaveman disable aider\n# >> Aider integration journal lacks owned blocks\n\n# after: re-stamp journal then disable\ncaveman enable aider && caveman disable aider","handlingStrategy":"validation","validationCode":"// Validate journal shape before attempting disable\nimport { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';\nconst home = process.env.CAVEMAN_HOME ?? `${process.env.HOME}/.caveman`;\nconst j = JSON.parse(readFileSync(`${home}/integrations/aider.json`, 'utf8'));\nconst valid = j.operations.every((op) =>\n  op.kind !== 'aider-config' ||\n  (typeof op.owned?.route_block === 'string' && typeof op.owned?.read_block === 'string'));\nif (!valid) console.error('journal pre-dates current schema — re-run `caveman enable aider` first');","typeGuard":"const hasAiderOwnedBlocks = (op) =>\n  typeof op.owned?.route_block === 'string' && typeof op.owned?.read_block === 'string';","tryCatchPattern":"catch (err) { if (err.message.includes('journal lacks owned blocks')) { /* run `caveman enable aider` to rewrite the journal, then disable */ } else throw err; }","preventionTips":["Disable integrations with the same caveman version that enabled them","Do not hand-edit ~/.caveman/integrations/*.json","After any caveman upgrade, run `caveman doctor <agent>` before scripting disables"],"tags":["aider","journal","schema","disable"],"backgroundTag":"schema-validation-failed","analyzedSha":"2f49f0e1a352aa810e70056b7930aeb0b3d219b4","analyzedAt":"2026-08-18T03:14:35.516Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-08-21T13:17:26.733Z"}