diff --git a/checkpoint.json b/checkpoint.json
index f05da3030..edf70f1f3 100644
--- a/checkpoint.json
+++ b/checkpoint.json
@@ -1,51 +1,42 @@
 {
-  "timestamp": "2026-03-16T12:08:23.798956Z",
-  "current_node": "solve",
+  "timestamp": "2026-03-16T12:08:25.940038Z",
+  "current_node": "extract_patch",
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-    "solve"
+    "solve",
+    "extract_patch"
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+    "extract_patch": 1,
     "solve": 4,
+    "setup": 1,
     "start": 1
   },
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-    "internal.thread_id": "setup",
-    "failure_class": "transient_infra",
-    "command.output": "fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.\n",
+    "internal.thread_id": "solve",
+    "failure_class": "",
+    "command.output": "",
+    "internal.retry_count.extract_patch": 1,
     "graph.rankdir": "LR",
     "internal.retry_count.solve": 4,
     "internal.run_id": "01KKV8NX5KPXHJZ9MDXVCM2XDN",
-    "outcome": "fail",
+    "outcome": "success",
     "thread.setup.current_node": "solve",
-    "current.preamble": "Goal: HttpResponse doesn't handle memoryview objects\nDescription\n\t\nI am trying to write a BinaryField retrieved from the database into a HttpResponse. When the database is Sqlite this works correctly, but Postgresql returns the contents of the field as a memoryview object and it seems like current Django doesn't like this combination:\nfrom django.http import HttpResponse\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n# String content\nresponse = HttpResponse(\"My Content\")\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nresponse.content\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n# Out: b'My Content'\n# This is correct\n# Bytes content\nresponse = HttpResponse(b\"My Content\")\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \nresponse.content\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n# Out: b'My Content'\n# This is also correct\n# memoryview content\nresponse = HttpResponse(memoryview(b\"My Content\"))\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \nresponse.content\n# Out: b'<memory at 0x7fcc47ab2648>'\n# This is not correct, I am expecting b'My Content'\n\n\n\n## Additional Context\n\nI guess HttpResponseBase.make_bytes ​could be adapted to deal with memoryview objects by casting them to bytes. In all cases simply wrapping the memoryview in bytes works as a workaround HttpResponse(bytes(model.binary_field)).\nThe fact make_bytes would still use force_bytes if da56e1bac6449daef9aeab8d076d2594d9fd5b44 didn't refactor it and that d680a3f4477056c69629b0421db4bb254b8c69d0 added memoryview support to force_bytes strengthen my assumption that make_bytes should be adjusted as well.\nI'll try to work on this.\n\n## Completed stages\n- **setup**: fail\n  - Script: `git clone https://github.com/django/django.git . && git checkout 879cc3da6249e920b8d54518a0ae06de835d7373 && python -m pip install -e .`\n  - Stdout:\n    ```\n    fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.\n    ```\n  - Stderr: (empty)\n\n## Context\n- failure_class: deterministic\n- failure_signature: setup|deterministic|script failed with exit code: <n> ## stdout fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.\n",
+    "current.preamble": "Goal: HttpResponse doesn't handle memoryview objects\nDescription\n\t\nI am trying to write a BinaryField retrieved from the database into a HttpResponse. When the database is Sqlite this works correctly, but Postgresql returns the contents of the field as a memoryview object and it seems like current Django doesn't like this combination:\nfrom django.http import HttpResponse\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n# String content\nresponse = HttpResponse(\"My Content\")\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nresponse.content\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n# Out: b'My Content'\n# This is correct\n# Bytes content\nresponse = HttpResponse(b\"My Content\")\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \nresponse.content\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n# Out: b'My Content'\n# This is also correct\n# memoryview content\nresponse = HttpResponse(memoryview(b\"My Content\"))\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \nresponse.content\n# Out: b'<memory at 0x7fcc47ab2648>'\n# This is not correct, I am expecting b'My Content'\n\n\n\n## Additional Context\n\nI guess HttpResponseBase.make_bytes ​could be adapted to deal with memoryview objects by casting them to bytes. In all cases simply wrapping the memoryview in bytes works as a workaround HttpResponse(bytes(model.binary_field)).\nThe fact make_bytes would still use force_bytes if da56e1bac6449daef9aeab8d076d2594d9fd5b44 didn't refactor it and that d680a3f4477056c69629b0421db4bb254b8c69d0 added memoryview support to force_bytes strengthen my assumption that make_bytes should be adjusted as well.\nI'll try to work on this.\n\n## Completed stages\n- **setup**: fail\n  - Script: `git clone https://github.com/django/django.git . && git checkout 879cc3da6249e920b8d54518a0ae06de835d7373 && python -m pip install -e .`\n  - Stdout:\n    ```\n    fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.\n    ```\n  - Stderr: (empty)\n- **solve**: fail\n\n## Context\n- failure_class: transient_infra\n- failure_signature: solve|transient_infra|api_transient|gemini|rate_limited\n",
     "internal.fidelity": "compact",
-    "current_node": "solve",
+    "current_node": "extract_patch",
     "internal.retry_count.start": 1,
     "thread.start.current_node": "setup",
     "internal.retry_count.setup": 1,
-    "failure_signature": "solve|transient_infra|api_transient|gemini|rate_limited",
+    "failure_signature": "",
     "graph.goal": "HttpResponse doesn't handle memoryview objects\nDescription\n\t\nI am trying to write a BinaryField retrieved from the database into a HttpResponse. When the database is Sqlite this works correctly, but Postgresql returns the contents of the field as a memoryview object and it seems like current Django doesn't like this combination:\nfrom django.http import HttpResponse\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n# String content\nresponse = HttpResponse(\"My Content\")\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nresponse.content\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n# Out: b'My Content'\n# This is correct\n# Bytes content\nresponse = HttpResponse(b\"My Content\")\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \nresponse.content\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n# Out: b'My Content'\n# This is also correct\n# memoryview content\nresponse = HttpResponse(memoryview(b\"My Content\"))\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \nresponse.content\n# Out: b'<memory at 0x7fcc47ab2648>'\n# This is not correct, I am expecting b'My Content'\n\n\n\n## Additional Context\n\nI guess HttpResponseBase.make_bytes ​could be adapted to deal with memoryview objects by casting them to bytes. In all cases simply wrapping the memoryview in bytes works as a workaround HttpResponse(bytes(model.binary_field)).\nThe fact make_bytes would still use force_bytes if da56e1bac6449daef9aeab8d076d2594d9fd5b44 didn't refactor it and that d680a3f4477056c69629b0421db4bb254b8c69d0 added memoryview support to force_bytes strengthen my assumption that make_bytes should be adjusted as well.\nI'll try to work on this.",
+    "thread.solve.current_node": "extract_patch",
     "command.stderr": "",
     "internal.node_visit_count": 1
   },
   "logs": [],
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-      "status": "success",
-      "duration_ms": 0
-    },
-    "solve": {
-      "status": "fail",
-      "failure": {
-        "message": "LLM error: Rate limited by gemini: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits. To monitor your current usage, head to: https://ai.dev/rate-limit. \n* Quota exceeded for metric: generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_requests_per_model_per_day, limit: 250, model: gemini-3.1-pro\nPlease retry in 11h51m36.202664022s.",
-        "failure_class": "transient_infra",
-        "failure_signature": "api_transient|gemini|rate_limited"
-      },
-      "duration_ms": 67619
-    },
     "setup": {
       "status": "fail",
       "context_updates": {
@@ -57,15 +48,38 @@
         "failure_class": "deterministic"
       },
       "duration_ms": 26
+    },
+    "start": {
+      "status": "success",
+      "duration_ms": 0
+    },
+    "extract_patch": {
+      "status": "success",
+      "context_updates": {
+        "command.stderr": "",
+        "command.output": ""
+      },
+      "notes": "Script completed: git diff",
+      "duration_ms": 28
+    },
+    "solve": {
+      "status": "fail",
+      "failure": {
+        "message": "LLM error: Rate limited by gemini: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits. To monitor your current usage, head to: https://ai.dev/rate-limit. \n* Quota exceeded for metric: generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_requests_per_model_per_day, limit: 250, model: gemini-3.1-pro\nPlease retry in 11h51m36.202664022s.",
+        "failure_class": "transient_infra",
+        "failure_signature": "api_transient|gemini|rate_limited"
+      },
+      "duration_ms": 67619
     }
   },
-  "next_node_id": "extract_patch",
+  "next_node_id": "exit",
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     "setup|deterministic|script failed with exit code: <n> ## stdout fatal: destination path '.' already exists and is not an empty directory.": 1
   },
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+    "extract_patch": 1,
     "setup": 1,
+    "solve": 1,
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   }
 }
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diff --git a/nodes/extract_patch/script_invocation.json b/nodes/extract_patch/script_invocation.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d29afc80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nodes/extract_patch/script_invocation.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "command": "git diff",
+  "language": "shell",
+  "timeout_ms": null
+}
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diff --git a/nodes/extract_patch/script_timing.json b/nodes/extract_patch/script_timing.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e2d7f978
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nodes/extract_patch/script_timing.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "duration_ms": 27,
+  "exit_code": 0,
+  "timed_out": false
+}
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diff --git a/nodes/extract_patch/status.json b/nodes/extract_patch/status.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d33adc28e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nodes/extract_patch/status.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+  "status": "success",
+  "notes": "Script completed: git diff",
+  "failure_reason": null,
+  "timestamp": "2026-03-16T12:08:25.939672+00:00"
+}
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