From e452a1afbfa0ac7ca4c3dad493f931f8a73ecb2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frank <frank@dankware>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 22:11:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] harness: tolerate missing container in ASI capture; llama
 cmdline fallback

---
 autoresearch.sh | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/autoresearch.sh b/autoresearch.sh
index afb2f5e..7c532a1 100755
--- a/autoresearch.sh
+++ b/autoresearch.sh
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ fi
 
 # 5. Identity evidence for the loop's records (exact engine argv).
 ASI_ARGS="$(ssh "$HOST" 'podman inspect frank-large-mimo \
-    --format "{{join .Config.Cmd \" \"}}" 2>/dev/null' | tr -d "\n" | head -c 400)"
+    --format "{{join .Config.Cmd \" \"}}" 2>/dev/null' | tr -d "\n" | head -c 400 || true)"
+if [ -z "$ASI_ARGS" ]; then
+    ASI_ARGS="$(ssh "$HOST" "tr '\\0' ' ' < /proc/\\$(pgrep -x llama-server | head -1)/cmdline 2>/dev/null" | head -c 400 || true)"
+fi
 echo "ASI engine_args=${ASI_ARGS:0:400}"
 
 # 6. The battery, on the host, medians over 3 reps x 2 greedy prompts.