[ problem ] found unhashable key in resource `user_prompt: {{ body }}`

[flynntsang]

To Reproduce

1. Clone the agent-machine
2. Create a new agent resource file, e.g. hello-world-agent.eidolon.yaml
3. Use the IDE shortcuts, e.g.:

• apiVersion
• AgentResource
• SimpleAgent
• actions

4. Add or edit the configuration so you get the following file:

apiVersion: server.eidolonai.com/v1alpha1
kind: Agent
metadata:
  name: hello-world-agent
spec:
  implementation: SimpleAgent
  actions:
    - name: converse
      user_prompt: {{ body }}
      allow_file_upload: true
      output_state: idle

5. From the agent-machine root directory, load the server, e.g. sudo make docker-serve
6. See error (attached)

...
agent-server-1  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/yaml/constructor.py", line 141, in construct_mapping
agent-server-1  |     raise ConstructorError("while constructing a mapping", node.start_mark,
agent-server-1  | yaml.constructor.ConstructorError: while constructing a mapping
agent-server-1  |   in "/local_mount/resources/hello-world-agent.eidolon.yaml", line 9, column 20
agent-server-1  | found unhashable key
agent-server-1  |   in "/local_mount/resources/hello-world-agent.eidolon.yaml", line 9, column 21

error-action-body-unhashable-key.txt

[flynntsang]

@LukeLalor Quoting prevents an error, specifically: "{{ body }}"

To do: update the IDE plugins.

apiVersion: server.eidolonai.com/v1alpha1
kind: Agent
metadata:
  name: hello-world-agent
spec: 
  implementation: SimpleAgent
  description: |
    "This is a general agent that uses an LLM to answer questions."
  system_prompt: You are a helpful assistant. Always use the provided tools, if appropriate, to complete the task.
  actions:
    - name: converse
      user_prompt: "{{ body }}"
      allow_file_upload: true
      output_state: idle

[LukeLalor]

This might be a bug in vscode yaml plugin. which would be somewhat out of our control.

We just say that the default string is "{{ body }}" and the plugin is what adds it unquoted, which isn't valid yaml as far as I can tell.

[LukeLalor]

on a similar note

agent-server-1  | ERROR - Failed to start AgentOS
agent-server-1  | Traceback (most recent call last):
...
agent-server-1  | yaml.constructor.ConstructorError: while constructing a mapping
agent-server-1  |   in "/local_mount/resources/hello-world-agent.eidolon.yaml", line 9, column 20
agent-server-1  | found unhashable key
agent-server-1  |   in "/local_mount/resources/hello-world-agent.eidolon.yaml", line 9, column 21

is this error clear enough? Perhaps the stack trace should just be "Error parsing yaml file hello-world.yaml: ConstructorError: while constructing mapping in ... line 9, column 20"

[LukeLalor]

estimating this as a time-boxed task to investigate vscode plugin default behavior. There may be a way to signal that the string should be escaped when templating the default. Barring something like that, we should document this as a known issue.

regardless of above, the yaml parsing errors should be caught and reraised with an explicit error saying yaml parsing failed for file xyz.yaml