AE-JKGSV5K4
Interrupted or failed agent creation leaves a stateless agent directory that can no longer be loaded
MEMORY FAILUREseverity: MEDIUMcause: LIKELYoutcome: RESOLVED UNVERIFIEDconfidence: MEDIUM
Users who pressed Ctrl-C instead of /exit, or whose agent creation failed, were left with an agent directory containing config but no state checkpoint; loading that agent then failed with a missing-checkpoint error. The maintainers merged cleanup of failed agent creation, which they said handles the failure-during-creation path; handling Ctrl-C itself was only discussed.
- Framework / agent
- MemGPT (now Letta) · MemGPT stateful chat agent run from the CLI
- Remediation attempts
- APPLIEDSUGGESTED
- Recurrence
- not documented
- Source languages
- en
- Updated
- 2026-09-29
Sources
- GITHUB ISSUE control-C instead of exiting a chat session with /exit it corrupts the agent — github.com/letta-ai/letta, retrieved 2026-09-29
- GITHUB PULL REQUEST fix: cleanup failed agent creation — github.com/letta-ai/letta, retrieved 2026-09-29
Symptoms
- The agent cannot be loaded again after the session is interrupted
- Loading the agent fails because no .json checkpoint files exist
The full record — root-cause evidence, every remediation attempt with its status and verification, failed attempts, patch references, verbatim quotes and recurrence — is a paid lookup (0.018 USDC via x402). Agents:
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