Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm · error · Error

Failed to publish slash command: ${error.message}

Error message

Failed to publish slash command: ${error.message}

What it means

Community Hub publisher for Slash Commands. Same pattern as other publishers: the form (name, description, command, prompt, tags, visibility) is POSTed via CommunityHub.createSlashCommand; a success:false response (or a thrown network error) is caught and toasted as 'Failed to publish slash command: <reason>'.

Source

Thrown at frontend/src/components/CommunityHub/PublishEntityModal/SlashCommands/index.jsx:36

  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"),
        command: entity.command,
        prompt: form.get("prompt"),
        tags: tags,
        visibility: visibility,
      };

      const { success, error, itemId } =
        await CommunityHub.createSlashCommand(data);
      if (!success) throw new Error(error);
      setItemId(itemId);
      setIsSuccess(true);
    } catch (error) {
      console.error("Failed to publish slash command:", error);
      showToast(`Failed to publish slash command: ${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)) {

View on GitHub (pinned to 3aec848f28)

Solutions

1. Read the toast/console — the suffix after the colon is the server's real reason
2. Verify all form fields are filled (name, description, prompt) and the command token is valid
3. Re-authenticate to the Community Hub and retry
4. Trim an oversized prompt and remove unusual characters from name/tags

const name = form.get("name")?.trim();
const description = form.get("description")?.trim();
const prompt = form.get("prompt")?.trim();
if (!name || !description || !prompt || !entity?.command)
  return disableSubmit("name, description, prompt and command are required");

catch (error) {
  console.error("Failed to publish slash command:", error);
  showToast(`Failed to publish slash command: ${error.message}`, "error", { clear: true });
  if (/duplicate/i.test(error.message)) suggestRenamed(name);
}

When it happens

Trigger: createSlashCommand rejects: required fields missing (name/description/prompt), invalid command string, duplicate name, unauthenticated hub session, oversized prompt, or network/backend failure.

Common situations: Publishing without being signed in to the Community Hub; prompt text extremely long; command name colliding with an existing published item; hub endpoint changed between frontend/backend versions.

Related errors

• Failed to publish agent flow: ${error.message}
• Failed to publish prompt: ${error.message}
• Community Hub connection key not found
• Unknown error
• An error occurred while downloading the model

AI-assisted analysis of Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm@3aec848f28 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/ace3e22f94e61a84. Report an issue: GitHub.