transceiver-db/sync/history/2026-05-06-magatama-runpod-status-truthfulness.md

2026-05-06 — MAGATAMA RunPod Status Truthfulness

Why this was needed

After the script/registry repair, MAGATAMA could refresh the local RunPod datasets again, but the operator-facing status flow was still too coarse:

• failures in local dataset preparation
• failures in optional Hugging Face publish
• and actual RunPod availability

were too easy to confuse.

This produced the impression that “RunPod is broken” even when the real problem was just dataset preparation on Erik.

Changes

Patched:

• magatama/packages/dashboard/src/server.ts

Behavior now:

• dataset source is normalized to either:
  • huggingface
  • url
• local dataset refresh (training:refresh-all) is wrapped with a dedicated error:
  • Dataset-Refresh fehlgeschlagen: ...
• Hugging Face publish is wrapped with a dedicated error:
  • HuggingFace-Publish fehlgeschlagen: ...
• if Hugging Face mode is selected but HF_TOKEN is missing, this is reported directly
• after successful preparation, the SSE stream now explicitly states:
  • Hugging Face dataset source in use
  • or URL-bundle dataset source in use, with no external publish required

Live effect

The dashboard process was rebuilt and restarted on Erik after this change.

Result:

• RunPod preparation status is more honest
• operators can distinguish:
  • data refresh problem
  • optional external publish problem
  • actual RunPod training job submission/polling problem

Notes

• This does not itself force a Hugging Face publish.
• It only makes the control plane truthful about what step is happening and what actually failed.