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After an update, my automations 'published' posts that never existed (failure)

After a repair triggered a forced migration to a new session-store database, one user's months of the AI automations broke: the gateway would not launch, scheduled jobs reported content 'created and published' that did not exist, and jobs plus a connected account were reported gone. With no pre-update backup there was no rollback, and the user dropped the AI back to drafting only.

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How it works

  1. A repair triggers a forced migration to a new session-store database
  2. The gateway fails to launch and the user's scheduled automations stop working
  3. Jobs report content created and published with post IDs that do not exist
  4. Jobs and a connected account are reported disappeared
  5. No pre-update backup exists, so there is no rollback
  6. The user restricts the AI to drafting only

Why it’s worth knowing

The failure wore a success costume: the agent kept reporting that posts were created and published, with IDs, for content that never existed.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on cdm.press. See the original ↗

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