NODE_OPTIONS is inherited by every grandchild node process. With --inspect
in there, every vitest worker, agent subprocess, and claude invocation the
dashboard spawned tried to bind 127.0.0.1:9229 and emitted "address already
in use" — those failure strings ended up in agent logs (visible in heap
diagnostics). Pass inspector flags directly on the node command line so
they apply only to the dashboard process.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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