Vast.ai Failure Classifier

Overview

Diagnose from provider state and error evidence instead of retrying every failure. Separate identity and permission errors, marketplace scarcity, transient startup, terminal host states, billing stops, SSH configuration, and workload exits.

Prerequisites

• Exact command, non-secret arguments, exit status, timestamp, and redacted response
• Affected account context, instance ID, image identity, and expected state
• Authority to inspect but not automatically destroy or fund resources

Instructions

Step 1: Capture structured evidence

Run the failing command with --raw where supported and record CLI version. For request diagnosis, use --explain or --curl only after ensuring generated output cannot expose the key.

Step 2: Classify control-plane failure