Please describe the problem.

I think I have done everything nice and clean to sync things up etc... but now assistant just does not care to add/commit new files.

excerpt from full daemon.log:

  fd:31: hPutBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe)

  fd:31: hPutBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe)
(recording state in git...)
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'typhon/master'.

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        Videos/2026/01/2026.01.31-13.19.02.455--2026.01.31-13.19.18.475.mkv
        Videos/2026/01/2026.01.31-13.19.02.455--2026.01.31-13.19.18.475.mkv.duct_info.json
        Videos/2026/01/2026.01.31-13.19.02.455--2026.01.31-13.19.18.475.mkv.duct_usage.json
        Videos/2026/01/2026.01.31-13.19.02.455--2026.01.31-13.19.18.475.mkv.log
        events-micropython/2026-01-31T12:20:42-05:00.csv
        logs/2026-01-14T09:33-05:00.log
        logs/timesync-stimuli/2026.01.31-13.19.05.339--.log

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
Everything up-to-date
Everything up-to-date

What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

well -- ideally that daemon.log should inform us that and potentially other details to help troubleshoot it. I think (since there could be multiple):

reprostim@reproiner:/data/reprostim$ ps auxw | grep assist
reprost+ 1989627  0.0  0.0   9892  3896 ?        Ss   13:12   0:00 /usr/bin/git annex assistant --foreground
reprost+ 1989628  2.8  0.8 1074363924 270904 ?   Ssl  13:12   0:19 /usr/lib/git-annex.linux/exe/git-annex --library-path /usr/lib/git-annex.linux//lib/x86_64-linux-gnu: /usr/lib/git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-annex/git-annex assistant --foreground
reprostim@reproiner:/data/reprostim$ /usr/lib/git-annex.linux/git-annex version | head
git-annex version: 10.20251114-1~ndall+1