manager.verify_and_download: Asset key not found error with download_assets

[mhxion]

Detailed description of the problem

Running download_assets --algorithms <any algorithm>, will show Asset key not found in asset_manifest.toml and quit with exit code 0 (success!) while no download has succeeded.

$ download_assets --algorithms hrnetw48
2026-08-17 14:20:29,407 [INFO] main.entry_point: Initialising asset manager; project: '.', run_config: '<configs_folder_path>/detectors_run_file.toml'
2026-08-17 14:20:29,409 [INFO] manager.verify_and_download:
================================================================================
Download Manager Assets Check
================================================================================


2026-08-17 14:20:29,409 [WARNING] manager.verify_and_download: Asset key '/Users/<username>/Workshop/nicetoolbox/nicetoolbox/detectors/assets/mmpose/configs/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_1x_coco_20200130-047c8118.pth' not found in asset_manifest.toml.
2026-08-17 14:20:29,409 [WARNING] manager.verify_and_download: Asset key '/Users/<username>/Workshop/nicetoolbox/nicetoolbox/detectors/assets/mmpose/configs/faster_rcnn_r50_fpn_coco.py' not found in asset_manifest.toml.
2026-08-17 14:20:29,409 [WARNING] manager.verify_and_download: Asset key '/Users/<username>/Workshop/nicetoolbox/nicetoolbox/detectors/assets/mmpose/configs/hrnet_w48_coco_wholebody_384x288_dark-f5726563_20200918.pth' not found in asset_manifest.toml.

Expected Behavior

• The assets as defined in the manifest and config files should be downloaded
• Failure should be exited with code 1

Steps to reproduce the behavior

• Set up the NICE tool environment with uv/conda
• Run download_assets --algorithms <any algorithm>: download_assets --algorithms hrnetw48

Do you have any idea what may have caused this?

It's a mismatch between how the asset path from asset_manifest.toml and the asset path given in detectors_config.toml are compared. One is relative and the other is absolute in download_manager/manager.py:

nicetoolbox/nicetoolbox/download_manager/manager.py

Lines 106 to 109 in 7026214

	for key in set(asset_keys):
	if key not in self.manifest:
	logging.warning(f"Asset key '{key}' not found in asset_manifest.toml.")
	continue

Do you have an idea how to solve the issue?

Yes. I will open a PR soon. The issue does not happen with run_detectors because run_detectors use ensure_assets_for_config method that does the correct comparison between the two paths.