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# E-CFG-001

> Doctor found a required .vendo/ file missing: tools.json, overrides.json, policy.json, brief.md, or theme.json.

```text config/<file> theme={null}
broken: missing .vendo/<file>
```

`<file>` is one of `tools.json`, `overrides.json`, `policy.json`, `brief.md`,
or `theme.json`. Doctor checks each of the five separately and emits this
once per file that's missing.

`check: config/<file>` · `error_code: E-CFG-001` · `doctor exits: 1`

## What you're seeing

The app runs, but Vendo is missing part of its configuration. Which part
depends on which file the message names.

## Why

`vendo init` was never run in this directory, or the named file was deleted
after init ran. Config resolves from code or from disk and nowhere else, so
a missing file is missing for every deployment, keyed or not.

## The fix

Run `npx vendo init`; it recreates any missing `.vendo/` files and never
overwrites the ones you already have.

```bash theme={null}
npx vendo init
```

A missing `tools.json` alone can also be regenerated on its own with
`npx vendo sync`. Run `npx vendo config status` to see which surfaces are on
disk and which are unset before you decide.

## Related errors

* [E-CFG-002](/production/troubleshooting/e-cfg-002): a missing file in the same `.vendo/` directory, `data/.gitignore`
* [E-CFG-003](/production/troubleshooting/e-cfg-003): a different `.vendo/`-adjacent config disagreement, the OpenAPI mount