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Supporting infrastructure to run scientific experiments without a scientific workflow management system.

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Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Oct 13, 2026
Latest indexed: Oct 13, 2026
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undici below 7.30.1 in the frontend's build tooling (GHSA-xjj6-f33q-929c)
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gems-uff/noworkflow#470 · Opened Oct 24, 2026

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Release gate: the paper's evaluation runs the 2.2.0 candidate, and every script computes what plain Python computes
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#469 · Opened Oct 24, 2026

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`now export dataflow` keeps one label at random when two dependencies join the same two nodes
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Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#468 · Opened Oct 24, 2026

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Make the snapshot cap of the external process tracer an option of `now run` (`--snapshot-cap`)
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gems-uff/noworkflow#464 · Opened Oct 23, 2026

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Follow the paper's R1 revision in the example corpora: tag is-2026-r1 of the reproducibility package
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#460 · Opened Oct 22, 2026

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A model object keeps reading its own store after the process connects to another
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gems-uff/noworkflow#456 · Opened Oct 22, 2026

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Draw the code nodes a trial did not run in the prospective graph, on request
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#452 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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`now export prospective` fails on an `if` or a `for` whose last line holds no drawn node
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#451 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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With the gitdb content engine, a trial records the engine's own temporary files as files it accessed
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#449 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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`now restore -i` crashes on the dulwich and pygit engines: their `find_subhash` raises instead of answering
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gems-uff/noworkflow#448 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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Move the Jupyter extension to @jupyter/builder and CodeMirror 6
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#447 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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TypeScript 6/7 and Babel 8 for the vis build
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#446 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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Migrate the models to SQLAlchemy 2
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#445 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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`trial_diff` as a diff engine without Jupyter, with an adapter for notebooks
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gems-uff/noworkflow#441 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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`now restore` rewrites and removes files outside the project
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gems-uff/noworkflow#440 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Named branches of trials
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#439 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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`now restore` on a dulwich store empties the file it restores: the engine's `get` returns `str`
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#438 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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`now demo --steps` crashes when the slice creates no demo directory
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#435 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Member key collection bypasses `now --serialiser` .
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gems-uff/noworkflow#434 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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A function of the script reached again under its own name, by a subscript or a builtin, runs inside the outer activation
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gems-uff/noworkflow#433 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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A name between parentheses loses the link to its assignment
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gems-uff/noworkflow#432 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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A comprehension whose filtered `for` has another `for` after it crashes with `IndexError`, or leaks its condition
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gems-uff/noworkflow#431 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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A dict display with `**` records no member for the unpacked keys and keeps the member of a key it overrides
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gems-uff/noworkflow#429 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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A subscript of a dict with a str key never reads the member a dict display recorded
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gems-uff/noworkflow#428 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Every model instance leaves a dead weak reference in its class registry for the life of the process
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

gems-uff/noworkflow#425 · Opened Oct 18, 2026

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The dataflow of a trial without an initial activation fails with AttributeError
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gems-uff/noworkflow#424 · Opened Oct 18, 2026

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A field in an f-string's format spec is recorded with the span of a brace in the outer field's expression
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gems-uff/noworkflow#423 · Opened Oct 18, 2026

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Under `now run`, `importlib.metadata.distributions()` lists every distribution twice
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gems-uff/noworkflow#420 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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A finder the script installs answers noWorkflow's distribution lookup for every module the script imports
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gems-uff/noworkflow#417 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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What a script writes through an `os.open` descriptor never reaches the store
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gems-uff/noworkflow#414 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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The write proxy breaks `del` of an attribute, `mock.patch.object` and `copy.copy` on a file opened for writing
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gems-uff/noworkflow#413 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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A bytes path or an `os.DirEntry` is recorded by its `str()`, and its after hash is lost
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gems-uff/noworkflow#412 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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A file written by a relative path gets another file's content as its after hash when the script changes directory
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gems-uff/noworkflow#411 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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Script threads that store new content at the same time make the plain engine raise `FileExistsError` in the script
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gems-uff/noworkflow#410 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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A failed `open()` is recorded with the content its path holds at the end of the run
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gems-uff/noworkflow#409 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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A thread still opening files when the script ends makes `now run` lose the trial
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gems-uff/noworkflow#408 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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A written file that cannot be read back at close raises in the script and loses the trial
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gems-uff/noworkflow#407 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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`detach()` on a file opened for writing makes `now run` fail after the script and lose the trial
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gems-uff/noworkflow#406 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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An `io` wrapper over a file opened for writing loses its data when the script never closes it
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gems-uff/noworkflow#405 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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`now_vis()` starts the first `now` on PATH, in the current directory and without `--dir`
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gems-uff/noworkflow#403 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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`now vis` builds the experiment links and their `now pull` command from the page's whole address
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gems-uff/noworkflow#402 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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Dataflow and prospective DOT: a `\"` in a string literal or a trailing backslash breaks the graph, and the cluster label is written unescaped
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gems-uff/noworkflow#401 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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The tagging helpers unpickle the `ops` shelve of the current directory
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gems-uff/noworkflow#400 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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With `--content-engine puregit`, git runs the hooks and the `core.fsmonitor` command of the store's `content.git`
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gems-uff/noworkflow#399 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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The plain content engine records two different files that share a SHA-1 as one, and keeps only the first
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gems-uff/noworkflow#398 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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`now_notebook()` never starts Jupyter, and the `ipython notebook` it would run executes a file named `notebook` from the current directory
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gems-uff/noworkflow#397 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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`now restore` executes the project's modules to read their versions for the backup trial
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gems-uff/noworkflow#396 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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Report the processes a `now` run by the e2e harness leaves alive
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gems-uff/noworkflow#394 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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Small defects of the magics, `now clean`, `export ipynb` and tagging helpers found by #254
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gems-uff/noworkflow#392 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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`now_tag_variable` forces the value's repr into the call's last argument, not into `value`
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gems-uff/noworkflow#391 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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