What causes "Invalid selection: ${choice}" in can1357/oh-my-pi?

Re-run the login and enter a number between 1 and the number of listed providers.

Invalid selection: ${choice}

Error message

Invalid selection: ${choice}

What it means

After printing the numbered provider menu, `pickProviderInteractively` parses the user's line with `parseInt` and bounds-checks it against `1..providers.length`. Anything that is not a valid in-range integer throws this error instead of indexing out of bounds.

Source

Thrown at packages/coding-agent/src/cli/auth-broker-cli.ts:365

	});
	return promise;
}

async function pickProviderInteractively(providers: readonly OAuthProviderInfo[]): Promise<string> {
	if (providers.length === 0) {
		throw new Error("No OAuth providers registered");
	}
	const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout });
	try {
		process.stdout.write("Select a provider:\n\n");
		for (let i = 0; i < providers.length; i++) {
			process.stdout.write(`  ${i + 1}. ${providers[i].name}\n`);
		}
		process.stdout.write("\n");
		const choice = await promptLine(rl, `Enter number (1-${providers.length}): `);
		const index = Number.parseInt(choice, 10) - 1;
		if (Number.isNaN(index) || index < 0 || index >= providers.length) {
			throw new Error(`Invalid selection: ${choice}`);
		}
		return providers[index].id;
	} finally {
		rl.close();
	}
}

async function runRemoteLogin(provider: string, via: string, dryRun: boolean): Promise<void> {
	const port = CALLBACK_PORTS[provider];
	if (port === undefined) {
		throw new Error(
			`No known OAuth callback port for '${provider}'. Use device-code flow on the broker host directly.`,
		);
	}
	const sshArgs = [
		"-L",
		`${port}:127.0.0.1:${port}`,
		"-o",

View on GitHub (pinned to 9690622007)

Solutions

Re-run the login and enter a number between 1 and the number of listed providers.
Use `--provider=<id>` to bypass the interactive menu.
When scripting, pipe exactly one valid number (e.g. `echo 2 | omp auth-broker login`).

Example fix

// before
echo "" | omp auth-broker login        // Invalid selection: 
// after
omp auth-broker login --provider=github

Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

// feed only a valid menu index when scripting
const choice = 2;
if (!Number.isInteger(choice) || choice < 1 || choice > providerCount) {
  throw new Error(`choose 1..${providerCount}`);
}
await prompt.write(String(choice) + "\n");

Try / catch

try {
  await runLogin(flags);
} catch (err) {
  if (err instanceof Error && err.message.startsWith("Invalid selection:")) {
    console.error("Enter a number from the printed menu, or use --provider=<id>.");
  } else throw err;
}

Prevention

Use `--provider=<id>` to bypass interactive menus entirely.
Don't pipe arbitrary text into interactive prompts; send exactly one valid number.
Answer with the number shown, not the provider name.

When it happens

Trigger: Answering the `Enter number (1-N)` prompt with an empty line, non-numeric text ('yes', 'q'), or a number outside the menu range; EOF/piped stdin producing an unparseable line.

Common situations: Interactive login with fat-fingered input; scripted runs piping arbitrary text into the prompt; pressing Enter expecting a default selection.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of can1357/oh-my-pi@9690622007 (2026-08-31). Data as JSON: /api/errors/3167d9f9fb724734. Report an issue: GitHub.