affaan-m/ECC · error · Error

Invalid repo: ${repo}

Error message

Invalid repo: ${repo}

What it means

Thrown by splitRepo() in scripts/lib/github-discussions.js when the repo argument cannot be split into a non-empty owner and name on the '/' separator. The function underlies all GraphQL discussion lookups, which require both owner and name variables.

Source

Thrown at scripts/lib/github-discussions.js:13

'use strict';

const { spawnSync } = require('child_process');

const DEFAULT_DISCUSSION_FIRST = 100;
const MAINTAINER_ASSOCIATIONS = new Set(['OWNER', 'MEMBER', 'COLLABORATOR']);
const DISCUSSION_ENABLED_QUERY = 'query($owner: String!, $name: String!) { repository(owner: $owner, name: $name) { hasDiscussionsEnabled } }';
const DISCUSSION_QUERY = 'query($owner: String!, $name: String!, $first: Int!) { repository(owner: $owner, name: $name) { hasDiscussionsEnabled discussions(first: $first, orderBy: {field: UPDATED_AT, direction: DESC}) { totalCount nodes { number title url updatedAt authorAssociation category { name isAnswerable } answer { url authorAssociation } comments(first: 20) { nodes { authorAssociation } } } } } }';

function splitRepo(repo) {
  const [owner, name] = String(repo || '').split('/');
  if (!owner || !name) {
    throw new Error(`Invalid repo: ${repo}`);
  }
  return { owner, name };
}

function runCommand(command, args, options = {}) {
  const result = spawnSync(command, args, {
    cwd: options.cwd,
    env: options.env || process.env,
    encoding: 'utf8',
    maxBuffer: 10 * 1024 * 1024,
  });

  if (result.error) {
    throw new Error(`${command} ${args.join(' ')} failed: ${result.error.message}`);
  }

  if (result.status !== 0) {
    throw new Error(`${command} ${args.join(' ')} failed: ${(result.stderr || result.stdout || '').trim()}`);

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Solutions

1. Pass the repo in owner/name form: 'affaan-m/ECC'.
2. If reading from an env var, validate and default it: const repo = process.env.GH_REPO; if (!repo || repo.split('/').length !== 2) throw ...
3. Trim and strip a trailing slash before splitting.

Example fix

// before
fetchDiscussionSummary('ECC');

// after
fetchDiscussionSummary('affaan-m/ECC');
// or guard:
function safeSplit(repo) {
  const parts = String(repo || '').trim().replace(/\/+$/, '').split('/');
  if (parts.length !== 2 || !parts[0] || !parts[1]) {
    throw new Error(`Invalid repo: ${repo}`);
  }
  return { owner: parts[0], name: parts[1] };
}

function parseRepo(repo) {
  const parts = String(repo || '').trim().replace(/\/+$/, '').split('/');
  if (parts.length !== 2 || !parts[0] || !parts[1]) {
    throw new Error(`Invalid repo: ${repo}`);
  }
  return { owner: parts[0], name: parts[1] };
}
const { owner, name } = parseRepo(process.env.GH_REPO);

function isOwnerSlashName(v) {
  return typeof v === 'string'
    && /^\S+\/\S+$/.test(v.trim())
    && !v.trim().endsWith('/');
}

try {
  return splitRepo(repo);
} catch (err) {
  if (/Invalid repo/.test(err.message)) {
    throw new Error(`GH_REPO must be 'owner/name'; got '${repo}'`);
  }
  throw err;
}

When it happens

Trigger: splitRepo(repo) called with undefined, null, '', 'owneronly', '/name', 'owner/', or any string without exactly one slash-delimited non-empty segment on each side.

Common situations: Caller passed the bare repo name (e.g. 'ECC') instead of 'affaan-m/ECC'; env var GH_REPO unset so undefined reaches the call; extra whitespace produced an empty segment after trim; user typed owner/name with a trailing slash.

Related errors

• Refusing to run install from untrusted repo root ${normalize
• Unknown argument: ${arg}
• Missing issue number.
• Missing --repo <owner/repo>.
• At least one guided harness must be selected

AI-assisted analysis of affaan-m/ECC@01e15490f0 (2026-08-13). Data as JSON: /api/errors/bee4c97a873a06e1. Report an issue: GitHub.