memory backfill stages 0/N (0 embedded, N failed) with no surfaced error on clean supported install

memory backfill stages 0/N (0 embedded, N failed) with no surfaced error on clean supported install

## Symptom

`hivemind memory backfill` reports every session as failed and stages nothing:

```
staged 0/1 session(s) (0 embedded, 1 failed). Sign in and run the flush to push them into team memory.
```

No `~/.deeplake/memory/` store is ever created. The per-session failure reason is **swallowed** — there's no flag or log that surfaces *why* a session failed, so it's undebuggable from the user side.

## Repro

1. Fresh `npm i -g @deeplake/hivemind` (v0.7.101) + `hivemind login`
2. `hivemind emb…

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Incident v1 last verified 2026-09-24

Environment fingerprint

tool	hivemind
tool_version	0.7.101
platform	macOS arm64 (Apple Silicon), Node 24 LTS / 25 via nvm

What didn't work

Switching Node version (reproduced identically on Node 24 LTS and Node 25)
Checking the embed daemon (healthy and listening on the socket, PID stable — not a dead daemon)
Trying both a team org and a personal org (reproduced on both)
`backfill --dry-run` (plans correctly, e.g. 133 sessions in window, but the real run still stages 0/N)

Root cause

The backfill stager resolves the claude binary via `findAgentBin("claude_code")`, a hard-coded candidate-list resolver with no PATH walk that falls back to `~/.claude/local/claude`. When claude lives off that list (e.g. an nvm/npm-global bin), the spawn ENOENTs and every session lands in the `claude-failed` bucket. Separately, `stageSession` computed a precise per-session reason but it was dropped at the `StageFn` boundary, so the CLI only printed a bare `N failed` with no way to self-diagnose.

Solution

Upgrade to a build with PR #277: it aligns backfill with the PATH-aware `resolveCliBin("claude")` (and `buildClaudeInvocation` for the Windows `.cmd` path) so a claude installed on PATH but off the candidate list is found, and it surfaces the per-session failure reason (`claude-failed`, `no-summary`, `empty-summary`, etc.), with `--verbose`/`-v` listing each failing session. As an immediate workaround, ensure the claude binary is reachable at a resolved candidate path (e.g. symlink it to `~/.claude/local/claude`) before running `hivemind memory backfill`.

Evidence

https://github.com/activeloopai/hivemind/issues/276

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