$ workshop launch --wait-on-error
error: cannot complete launch for "dev", execution is paused
To proceed, resolve the issue and run "workshop launch --continue dev"
To cancel and undo: "workshop launch --abort dev"
To view more information: "workshop tasks 16"
$ workshop tasks 16
STATUS DURATION SUMMARY
Done 56ms Retrieve "system" SDK
Done 45ms Retrieve "hermes-agent" SDK from channel "latest/stable"
Done 5ms Create "dev" storage directories
Done 296ms Create new "dev" workshop from "hermes-agent" snapshot
Done 205ms Install "system" SDK
Done 174ms Install "hermes-agent" SDK
Done 3.421s Start "dev" workshop
Done 345ms Configure "dev" workshop timezone
Done 61ms Mount project directory "/home/ubuntu/Projects/Canonical/Developer Success/hermes-playground"
Done 36ms Resolve relations between interfaces of "dev" workshop
Done 62ms Auto-connect interfaces of "system" SDK
Done 67ms Auto-connect interfaces of "hermes-agent" SDK
Done 15ms Run hook "setup-project" for "system" SDK
Wait 57.034s Run hook "setup-project" for "hermes-agent" SDK
Do - Run hook "check-health" for "system" SDK
Do - Run hook "check-health" for "hermes-agent" SDK
Done 21ms Connect "dev/hermes-agent:cognee-plugin" to "dev/system:mount"
Done 21ms Connect "dev/hermes-agent:hermes-home" to "dev/system:mount"
Done 21ms Connect "dev/hermes-agent:hermes-secrets" to "dev/system:mount"
Done 642ms Setup "system" SDK profile
......................................................................
Run hook "setup-project" for "hermes-agent" SDK
2026-06-23T15:01:17+02:00 INFO + uritemplate==4.2.0
+ urllib3==2.7.0
+ uvicorn==0.41.0
+ uvloop==0.22.1
+ watchfiles==1.2.0
+ wcwidth==0.8.1
+ websockets==16.0
+ yarl==1.24.2
+ youtube-transcript-api==1.2.4
2026-06-23T15:01:17+02:00 ERROR command exit code 1
To me, reading those doesn't tell me what is happening. If one runs with --verbose, the SDK logs give the hint:
...
✓ Run hook "setup-project" for "hermes-agent" SDK
✓ Run hook "check-health" for "system" SDK
+ set -euo pipefail
+ sudo -u workshop --login hermes --version
(19/20) Run hook "check-health" for "hermes-agent" SDK |
++ awk '/^model:/{m=1;next} /^[^[:space:]]/{m=0} m && /^[[:space:]]*default:[[:space:]]*/{sub(/^[[:space:]]*default:[[:space:]]*/,"");gsub(/["'\'']/,"");print;exit}' /home/workshop/.hermes/config.yaml
+ MODEL=
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ workshopctl set-health waiting 'model.default is not set in ~/.hermes/config.yaml — set it to a model available on your llm-backend endpoint (e.g. qwen3.6:35b), then run: workshop refresh'
+ exit 0
(19/20) Run hook "check-health" for "hermes-agent" SDK /
error: cannot complete launch for "dev", execution is paused
To proceed, resolve the issue and run "workshop launch --continue dev"
To cancel and undo: "workshop launch --abort dev"
To view more information: "workshop tasks 15"
Maybe more information could be shown on failure on the default verbosity level.
To me, reading those doesn't tell me what is happening. If one runs with
--verbose, the SDK logs give the hint:Maybe more information could be shown on failure on the default verbosity level.