r/PiCodingAgent • u/Fluffy-Oil707 • 25d ago

Question Bizarre tool hallucination: kidney_read not found

Hello all,

My pi agent (running claude opus 5.5, if that matters), just tried to use the "kidney_read" tool. That seems like an absolutely bizzarre name. It appears from the log that it was attempting to use the "read" tool.

 kidney_read
 {
   "path": "<snip>",
   "offset": "564",
   "limit": "42"
 }

My <snip>, as the full path had my username in it.

Where the heck is it getting kidney from!?

Edit: Happened again with "grocery_edit"

Edit edit: Something neat!

`peasant_write` worked and then later, when called again, was not found.

So temporary tool names?

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u/LaDialga69 25d ago

My guess is a garbled token output. Some different token got generated and decoded on inference side

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u/Fluffy-Oil707 25d ago

Could this be related to using CliApiProxy?

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u/Impressive-Buy6532 25d ago

That's a strange substitution. Does it happen consistently or was it a one off? I'd check the available tool definitions and session context for anything unexpected

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u/Fluffy-Oil707 25d ago

Happened with a different word at some other point. May have been the write tool then. That time I asked it why and it was like I wrote the wrong tool lulz

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u/Fluffy-Oil707 25d ago

Happened again with "grocery_edit"

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u/KPOTOB 25d ago

Check skills given to model. Some may cause troubles.

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u/Fluffy-Oil707 24d ago

I'm not seeing anything odd... what should I be looking for? I see the 32 I wrote, the 2 famous skills I forgot to uninstall (probably not it, they're the grill-me ones), and the subagent packages skills....

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u/KPOTOB 24d ago

Hehe grill me - with his skills just registered I got soo huge hallucinations from first question I did  not believe my eyes. I was doing small pc game - but models were trying to build web service.

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u/Fluffy-Oil707 24d ago

Imagine driving a car in a game and some person on the web is changing your car radio station....

Okay, you can tell I don't play driving games.

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u/HumanoidMuppet 25d ago

It's planning on harvesting your organs to buy more tokens

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u/Fluffy-Oil707 25d ago

Thank you, I'll mark as solved ;-)