Results are not written to a file (disappointing ongoing issue)

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Which Operating System are you using?

Windows

Which version of Auto-GPT are you using?

Latest Release

GPT-3 or GPT-4?

GPT-3.5

Steps to reproduce 🕹

Ask Auto-GPT to perform a task and write to results to a file. The program performs the task perfectly, but doesn’t provide a file containing the results (although it reports that it has done so).

Current behavior 😯

1. Auto-GPT warns “Warning: The file 'auto-gpt.json' does not exist. Local memory would not be saved to a file.”
2. Auto-GPT reports writing to a file, but the file can’t be found anywhere

Expected behavior 🤔

Write the results to a file

Your prompt 📝

Write to a file the name of the capital of the state of Montana

Your Logs 📒

<insert your logs here>

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Symptoms:
Auto-GPT performs the task perfectly, but doesn’t provide a file containing the results.

1. Auto-GPT warns “Warning: The file 'auto-gpt.json' does not exist. Local memory would not be saved to a file.”
2. Auto-GPT reports writing to a file, but the file can’t be found anywhere

Attempted resolutions:
• Created an empty file called “AutoGpt.json” (size: 0K); and then tried a nonempty file (size:1K)
• Reinstalled Docker (4.19.0) and Git (2.40.1-64-bit)
• Upgraded Python from 3.10.10-amd64 to 3.11.3-amd64
• Installed Auto-GPT (0.2.2) in a new folder to address any permission issues
• Created a folder under “auto-gpt” called “auto_gpt_workspace”. This folder isn’t created automatically, which could be part of the problem
• Added to .env these lines. There’s no “#” before any of them:
o OPENAI_API_KEY=[full API key]
o EXECUTE_LOCAL_COMMANDS=true
o RESTRICT_TO_WORKSPACE=false

Examined similar bug reports, including
#2552
#2563
#959
#1889
#411

[amokduke]

Maybe you can try again with:
o EXECUTE_LOCAL_COMMANDS=false
o RESTRICT_TO_WORKSPACE=true

See if the file is written to the folder " auto_gpt_workspace folder"

[concenit]

Thanks for the suggestion, @amokduke! These are the default settings, if I remember right. If so, I already tested them.

By the way, is the folder auto_gpt_workspace supposed to be created by the user? Because the program didn't create it...

[gpt-hacker]

Auto-GPT warns “Warning: The file 'auto-gpt.json' does not exist. Local memory would not be saved to a file.”

Looks like you're using Docker? If so, this worked for me:

1. create auto-gpt.json in project root.
2. mount auto-gpt.json with docker run command; e.g.:

docker run -it --env-file=./.env -v $PWD/auto_gpt_workspace:/app/auto_gpt_workspace -v $PWD/auto-gpt.json:/home/appuser/auto-gpt.json autogpt

With this approach, the warning goes away and the file is written to outside of Docker as expected.

[gpt-hacker]

Auto-GPT reports writing to a file, but the file can’t be found anywhere.

I'm also running into this problem. I've confirmed that writing to the workspace within Docker yields the expected result, so I know it isn't a problem with my use of Docker.

[concenit]

Thanks for the suggestion, @gpt-hacker (true to your name!)

1. We already created an empty file called “AutoGpt.json” (size: 0K); and then tried a nonempty file (size:1K). The file is located in the Auto-GPT folder in Windows.
2. The command you suggested creates two new subfolders "auto_gpt_workspace" and "auto-gpt.json" (a folder, not a file). But the process terminates with an error

Unable to find image 'autogpt:latest' locally
docker: Error response from daemon: pull access denied for autogpt, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied.

What do we need to do to run Auto-GPT in Docker?

[mAlaliSy]

I am using docker-compose and followed the installation guide in the documentation, but it has a wrong mount path of AutoGPT workspace volume

In Docs:
- ./auto_gpt_workspace:/app/auto_gpt_workspace

What path I saw in the logs:
/app/autogpt/auto_gpt_workspace

After changing the docker-compose volume, it worked

[Boostrix]

the docs/website are way out of date by now, I also didn't find those very useful TBH - probably, these should be updated, too - at the very least by copying info from this discussion

EDIT: Saw auto-gpt.json missing today for the first time, too - haven't looked at the code in question, but just touching/creating the file solved the problem for me (and it is being used). So probably we need a simple fix that creates the file if it's missing. Might be related to #1246 and #3034

[amourification]

Related error on Windows using GIT and Linux:

Command write_to_file returned: Error: write_to_file() got an unexpected keyword argument 'content'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/home/amour/Auto-GPT/autogpt/main.py", line 5, in
autogpt.cli.main()
File "/home/amour/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1130, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/amour/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1055, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/home/amour/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1635, in invoke
rv = super().invoke(ctx)
File "/home/amour/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1404, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/home/amour/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 760, in invoke
return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/amour/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/decorators.py", line 26, in new_func
return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/amour/Auto-GPT/autogpt/cli.py", line 90, in main
run_auto_gpt(
File "/home/amour/Auto-GPT/autogpt/main.py", line 171, in run_auto_gpt
agent.start_interaction_loop()
File "/home/amour/Auto-GPT/autogpt/agent/agent.py", line 94, in start_interaction_loop
assistant_reply = chat_with_ai(
File "/home/amour/Auto-GPT/autogpt/llm/chat.py", line 166, in chat_with_ai
agent.summary_memory = update_running_summary(
File "/home/amour/Auto-GPT/autogpt/memory_management/summary_memory.py", line 76, in update_running_summary
content_dict = json.loads(event["content"])
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/init.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
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[concenit]

Thanks to @Boostrix comment, I solved the problem. Yes, the documentation is out-of-date. Thanks a lot!