Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm · error · Error

Failed to publish prompt

Error message

Failed to publish prompt: ${error.message}

What it means

Community Hub publisher for System Prompts. The modal gathers name, description, prompt, tags and visibility, then calls CommunityHub.createSystemPrompt; when the API answers success:false the error is rethrown and toasted as 'Failed to publish prompt: <reason>'.

Solutions

1. Check the toast suffix and console.error for the API's specific message
2. Complete every field in the publish form before submitting
3. Rename the prompt if a duplicate-name rejection is reported
4. Confirm hub authentication is active, then retry once network/hub status is verified

const name = form.get("name")?.trim();
const description = form.get("description")?.trim();
const prompt = form.get("prompt")?.trim();
if (!name || !description || !prompt) return disableSubmit("all fields are required");

catch (error) {
  console.error("Failed to publish prompt:", error);
  showToast(`Failed to publish prompt: ${error.message}`, "error", { clear: true });
  if (/unauthor|401/i.test(error.message)) promptHubReconnect();
}

When it happens

Trigger: createSystemPrompt rejects: empty name/description/prompt fields, duplicate published prompt name, invalid tags, missing hub authentication, or a backend/network error.

Common situations: Not signed in to the Community Hub; publishing the same prompt name twice; prompt body too large; transient hub outage or version mismatch between client and server.

Understand the failure class

Background: "API request failed": what wrapped HTTP errors from external APIs mean and how to find the real cause — this error's family across 29 libraries.

Related errors

• Failed to publish agent flow
• Failed to publish slash command
• An error occurred while downloading the model
• An error occurred while downloading the model
• An error occurred while uninstalling the model

AI-assisted analysis of Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm@3aec848f28 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/cd5624634e59a5c7. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at frontend/src/components/CommunityHub/PublishEntityModal/SystemPrompts/index.jsx:35

  const [itemId, setItemId] = useState(null);

  const handleSubmit = async (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    e.stopPropagation();
    setIsSubmitting(true);
    try {
      const form = new FormData(formRef.current);
      const data = {
        name: form.get("name"),
        description: form.get("description"),
        prompt: form.get("prompt"),
        tags: tags,
        visibility: visibility,
      };

      const { success, error, itemId } =
        await CommunityHub.createSystemPrompt(data);
      if (!success) throw new Error(error);
      setItemId(itemId);
      setIsSuccess(true);
    } catch (error) {
      console.error("Failed to publish prompt:", error);
      showToast(`Failed to publish prompt: ${error.message}`, "error", {
        clear: true,
      });
    } finally {
      setIsSubmitting(false);
    }
  };

  const handleKeyDown = (e) => {
    if (e.key === "Enter" || e.key === ",") {
      e.preventDefault();
      const value = tagInput.trim();
      if (value.length > 20) return;
      if (value && !tags.includes(value)) {

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