Fresh install from main will not start with a characterfile

[twilwa]

Describe the bug
When pulling a fresh repo
good news:
pull from main, pnpm install, pnpm start -- works!

bad news:
pull from main, pnpm install, pnpm start --characters=..../trump.character.json
fails:

file:///home/anon/repos/eliza/Eliza/packages/core/src/generation.ts:297
    console.log("model.model.embedding", model.model.embedding);
                                               ^

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'model')
    at splitChunks (file:///home/anon/repos/eliza/Eliza/packages/core/src/generation.ts:297:48)
    at AgentRuntime.processCharacterKnowledge (file:///home/anon/repos/eliza/Eliza/packages/core/src/runtime.ts:240:41)

Node.js v23.1.0
/home/anon/repos/eliza/Eliza/packages/agent:
 ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_RUN_FIRST_FAIL  @ai16z/[email protected] start: `node --loader ts-node/esm src/index.ts "--isRoot" "--characters=/home/anon/repos/Eliza/characters/trump.character.json"`
Exit status 1
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1
 ```
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this is prior to sending an initial message to this character -- the embeddings for the default eliza load successfully.

**To Reproduce**
pnpm install, pnpm start --characters=[any characterfile]
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**Expected behavior**

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DirectClient constructor
["◎ sqlite-vec extensions loaded successfully."]

Creating runtime for character Eliza
Agent ID b850bc30-45f8-0041-a00a-83df46d8555d
["✓ Registering action: CONTINUE"]
["✓ Registering action: FOLLOW_ROOM"]

["✓ Registering action: UNFOLLOW_ROOM"]

["✓ Registering action: IGNORE"]

["✓ Registering action: NONE"]

["✓ Registering action: MUTE_ROOM"]

["✓ Registering action: UNMUTE_ROOM"]

Registering service: browser
Registering service: image_description
Registering service: text_generation
Registering service: pdf
Registering service: speech_generation
Registering service: transcription
Registering service: video
Chat started. Type 'exit' to quit.
You: Server running at http://localhost:3000/
test
DirectClient message
["✓ User Eliza created successfully."]

["✓ User User created successfully."]

["◎ Room 217df98d-3f87-0a35-9a24-e0cd4fb3a9f1 created successfully."]

["◎ User 12dea96f-ec20-0935-a6ab-75692c994959 linked to room 217df98d-3f87-0a35-9a24-e0cd4fb3a9f1 successfully."]

["◎ User b850bc30-45f8-0041-a00a-83df46d8555d linked to room 217df98d-3f87-0a35-9a24-e0cd4fb3a9f1 successfully."]

embeddingModel text-embedding-3-small
embedding [
-0.006373816,

**Screenshots**
![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/39e4681c-41ae-447a-b11c-1aeafcd9d763)

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**Additional context**
attempted to fix with:

"name": "troll",
"clients": [ "discord", "direct" ],
"modelProvider": "anthropic",
"settings": {
  "secrets": {},
  "voice": {
    "model": "en_GB-male-deep"
  }

https://discord.com/channels/1253563208833433701/1298900529178742796/1305655368084492379

unsuccessful

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