Issue with Plan Mode and Ideation Features

[ziadeh]

I’m facing an issue when using Plan mode or Ideation. It was working before, but now it’s not, and I’m not sure what changed.

Console log:
INFO [BacklogPlan] [BacklogPlan] Keeping accumulated text (longer than Cursor result)
ERROR [ClaudeProvider] executeQuery() error during execution: {
type: 'execution',
message: 'Claude Code process exited with code 1',
isRateLimit: false,
retryAfter: undefined,
stack: 'Error: Claude Code process exited with code 1\n' +
' at ProcessTransport.getProcessExitError (file:///Users/Documents/development/automaker-2/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk/sdk.mjs:13248:14)\n' +
' at ChildProcess.exitHandler (file:///Users/Documents/development/automaker-2/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk/sdk.mjs:13373:28)\n' +
' at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:634:26)\n' +
' at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:531:35)\n' +
' at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:293:12)'
}
ERROR [BacklogPlan] [BacklogPlan] Generation failed: Claude exited unexpectedly. Try again. If it keeps happening, re-run claude login or update your API key in Setup.
INFO [Server] Event received: {
type: 'backlog-plan:event',
hasPayload: true,
payloadKeys: [ 'type', 'error' ],
wsReadyState: 1,
wsOpen: true
}
INFO [Server] Sending event to client: {
type: 'backlog-plan:event',
messageLength: 196,
sessionId: undefined
}
ERROR [BacklogPlan] [BacklogPlan] Generate backlog plan failed (background): Claude exited unexpectedly. Try again. If it keeps happening, re-run claude login or update your API key in Setup.

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When using ideation:
INFO [Server] INFO [SettingsHelper] [IdeationService] Loaded prompt customization from settings
INFO [Server] [ModelResolver] resolveModelString called with modelKey: "sonnet", defaultModel: "claude-opus-4-5-20251101"
[ModelResolver] Migrated legacy ID: "sonnet" -> "claude-sonnet"
[ModelResolver] Resolved Claude canonical ID: "claude-sonnet" -> "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"
INFO [Server] [ModelResolver] resolveModelString called with modelKey: "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929", defaultModel: "claude-opus-4-5-20251101"
[ModelResolver] Using full Claude model string: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
INFO [Server] INFO [Server] Event received: {
type: 'ideation:suggestions',
hasPayload: true,
payloadKeys: [ 'type', 'promptId', 'category', 'suggestions' ],
wsReadyState: 1,
wsOpen: true
}
INFO [Server] Sending event to client: {
type: 'ideation:suggestions',
messageLength: 5870,
sessionId: undefined
}

I'm using Mac OS
Node JS 22.21.1
Automaker 0.13.0

[Monoquark]

Can you try 0.14.0rc? A fix for the backlog planner was added there (#654). Not sure if it actually caught the ideation issue though - it's the same root cause, only much easier to read error message.

[ziadeh]

@Monoquark Thanks! I tested 0.14.0rc and it fixed the backlog planner and Ideation issue on my side