15 DEC 2025
David debugged: Investigated bootstrap calendar agent failure spike and rebuilt failed runs locally to find the fix
David directed the agent past speculative diagnosis and insisted on fetching production Gemini API keys to rebuild and replay failed calendar bootstrap runs locally until the definitive failure point was found.
A session continuing from a Claude Code investigation into calendar bootstrap failures. David had the results of prior investigation but pushed further:
wait actually you haven't found the end to end fix yet. you're still saying things like 'if gemini accepts that' — why haven't you experimented? go fetch our keys from prod for the gemini api and rebuild the failed runs locally, run them locally, find where they break, experiment with fixes, run them again, find if it succeeds, repeat, until we find the definitive bug and fix point. then we discuss the implementation for prod
After fixes were applied and re-run for David's own courses, the results were mixed — bootstrap agents ran but calendar events weren't created. David investigated why:
yeah ok well then it didn't work. what happened? did the files not get fed in cause they were all marked as consumed or something??
The session established that bootstrap calendar agents can't re-run on consumed sources without an explicit reset mechanism.