Pipeline Executor action error when running for the first time

When running a pipeline executor action for the first time receiving error Unable to load pipeline [

] : can't find directory.

If you go into the reference pipeline and save from the hop gui, if you run it again you no longer receive the error

 Running for the first time after hop initializes: 

After going into the referenced csv_read.hpl and saving from gui:

csv_read.hpl for reference