What causes "checked goal text" in affaan-m/ECC?

Ensure the goal text is validated/non-empty before entering the match, replacing expect with an explicit bail.

checked goal text

Error message

checked goal text

What it means

Same invariant pattern as the Standard branch but for computer-use dispatch: body_text.expect("checked goal text") asserts the goal text was validated earlier. If None reaches this point, the binary panics, indicating the pre-validation of the computer-use goal was skipped.

Solutions

Ensure the goal text is validated/non-empty before entering the match, replacing expect with an explicit bail.
Trace why the earlier check was skipped for this command path.
If hit as a user, confirm a non-empty goal was supplied to the computer-use dispatch command.

Example fix

// before
session::manager::create_computer_use_remote_dispatch_request(
    db, cfg, body_text.expect("checked goal text"), /* ... */)
// after
let goal = body_text.ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("goal text is required for computer-use dispatch"))?;
session::manager::create_computer_use_remote_dispatch_request(db, cfg, goal, /* ... */)

Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

let goal = draft.goal_text.as_deref().map(str::trim).filter(|t| !t.is_empty());
anyhow::ensure!(goal.is_some(), "goal text required for computer-use dispatch");

Try / catch

// any occurrence of this panic indicates a skipped validation:
std::panic::catch_unwind(|| dispatch_computer_use(...)).unwrap_or_else(|_| {
    eprintln!("internal error: goal text validation skipped — please report");
});

Prevention

Require a non-empty goal before entering the ComputerUse branch
Replace expect() on Option with explicit error returns
Test computer-use dispatch with empty/whitespace goals
Centralize body_text validation for all dispatch kinds

When it happens

Trigger: A computer-use remote dispatch where the goal-text validation step did not populate body_text before create_computer_use_remote_dispatch_request is called.

Common situations: New or modified dispatch flows missing the goal check, or a command variant that reaches ComputerUse dispatch with an empty goal (e.g. empty --goal or empty stdin).

Understand the failure class

Background: "This is a bug, please report it": internal invariant violations, unreachable panics, and SNH errors explained — this error's family across 47 libraries.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of affaan-m/ECC@8321021c54 (2026-09-16). Data as JSON: /api/errors/7225f3edbfde67aa. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at ecc2/src/main.rs:7242

                    target_session_id.as_deref(),
                    draft.priority.unwrap_or(TaskPriorityArg::Normal).into(),
                    draft.agent.as_deref().unwrap_or(&cfg.default_agent),
                    draft.profile.as_deref(),
                    draft.use_worktree.unwrap_or(cfg.auto_create_worktrees),
                    session::SessionGrouping {
                        project: draft.project.clone(),
                        task_group: draft.task_group.clone(),
                    },
                    "migrate_remote",
                    None,
                )?
            }
            session::RemoteDispatchKind::ComputerUse => {
                let defaults = cfg.computer_use_dispatch_defaults();
                session::manager::create_computer_use_remote_dispatch_request(
                    db,
                    cfg,
                    body_text.expect("checked goal text"),
                    draft.target_url.as_deref(),
                    draft.context.as_deref(),
                    target_session_id.as_deref(),
                    draft.priority.unwrap_or(TaskPriorityArg::Normal).into(),
                    draft.agent.as_deref(),
                    draft.profile.as_deref(),
                    Some(draft.use_worktree.unwrap_or(defaults.use_worktree)),
                    session::SessionGrouping {
                        project: draft.project.clone(),
                        task_group: draft.task_group.clone(),
                    },
                    "migrate_remote_computer_use",
                    None,
                )?
            }
        };

        item.status = LegacyRemoteImportRequestStatus::Imported;

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