affaan-m/ECC · error · Error

Codex ${label} probe failed: ${result.error.message}

Error message

Codex ${label} probe failed: ${result.error.message}

What it means

Thrown by probeCodex when spawning the codex probe failed with a spawn error other than ENOENT (e.g. EACCES). The raw spawn error message is embedded to identify the OS-level failure.

Source

Thrown at skills/council-multi-model/scripts/review-with-codex.js:120

    '--strict-config',
    '--skip-git-repo-check',
    '--sandbox', 'read-only',
    '--cd', tempDir,
    '--color', 'never',
    '--config', 'shell_environment_policy.inherit="none"',
    '--config', 'skills.include_instructions=false',
    '--config', 'web_search="disabled"',
    '--config', 'mcp_servers={}',
    '--output-last-message', outputFile,
    '-',
  ];
}

function probeCodex(spawn, args, options, label) {
  const result = spawn('codex', args, options);
  if (result.error) {
    if (result.error.code === 'ENOENT') throw new Error('Codex CLI is not installed');
    throw new Error(`Codex ${label} probe failed: ${result.error.message}`);
  }
  if (result.status !== 0) {
    const detail = (result.stderr || '').trim().split('\n').slice(-1)[0];
    throw new Error(`Codex ${label} probe failed${detail ? `: ${detail}` : ''}`);
  }
  return (result.stdout || '').trim();
}

function verifyToollessSupport(dependencies = {}) {
  const spawn = dependencies.spawnSync || spawnSync;
  const options = {
    cwd: os.tmpdir(),
    env: buildEnvironment(dependencies.env || process.env),
    encoding: 'utf8',
    timeout: 5_000,
    maxBuffer: 256 * 1024,
    windowsHide: true,
  };

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Solutions

1. Inspect the underlying error detail in the message (stderr/log/HTTP status), fix the cause, and retry.

When it happens

Trigger: Triggered when review-with-codex.js rejects the current invocation: Codex <value> probe failed: <value>

Common situations: Occurs while running skills/council-multi-model/scripts/review-with-codex.js with invalid arguments, missing flags, or a failing external dependency; the guard at skills/council-multi-model/scripts/review-with-codex.js:120 aborts the command with this message.

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