chenhg5/cc-connect · error

%s requires a value

Error message

%s requires a value

What it means

parseTuiTuiArgs validates CLI flags for the tuitui subcommand. When a flag that requires an argument (e.g. --config, --limit, --max-bytes, --project) appears as the last token with no following value, this error names the offending flag. It is a standard argc-check closure over the loop index i.

Source

Thrown at cmd/cc-connect/tuitui.go:226

		_, params, err := mime.ParseMediaType(contentDisposition)
		if err == nil && params["filename"] != "" {
			return params["filename"]
		}
	}
	u, err := url.Parse(rawURL)
	if err != nil {
		return ""
	}
	return filepath.Base(u.Path)
}

func parseTuiTuiArgs(args []string) (tuituiCLIOptions, error) {
	var opts tuituiCLIOptions
	for i := 0; i < len(args); i++ {
		arg := args[i]
		value := func() (string, error) {
			if i+1 >= len(args) {
				return "", fmt.Errorf("%s requires a value", arg)
			}
			i++
			return args[i], nil
		}
		switch arg {
		case "--config":
			v, err := value()
			if err != nil {
				return opts, err
			}
			opts.configPath = v
			opts.configSet = true
		case "--project", "-p":
			v, err := value()
			if err != nil {
				return opts, err
			}
			opts.project = v

View on GitHub (pinned to 4000b2338a)

Solutions

1. Supply the value after the flag: --config /path/to/config.toml
2. Quote values containing spaces so the shell does not split them
3. Quote empty-valued shell variables: --project "$PROJ"

Example fix

// before
$ cc-connect tuitui post --config
// after
$ cc-connect tuitui post --config ~/.config/cc-connect/config.toml

for i, a := range args {
	if requiresValue[a] && i == len(args)-1 {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s requires a value", a)
	}
}

opts, err := parseTuiTuiArgs(args)
if err != nil {
	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
	os.Exit(2)
}

When it happens

Trigger: Running e.g. `cc-connect tuitui post --config` with no value after the flag — i+1 >= len(args) inside the value() closure.

Common situations: Truncated shell commands; copy-paste dropping the value; shell variable expansion producing an empty string that the shell drops.

Understand the failure class

Background: "missing required argument" and "the following required arguments were not provided": what required-argument errors mean and how to fix them — this error's family across 20 libraries.

Related errors

• unknown option: %s
• unknown flag: %s
• unknown top-level command: %s
• --image requires a path
• --file requires a path

AI-assisted analysis of chenhg5/cc-connect@4000b2338a (2026-09-06). Data as JSON: /api/errors/2f83bd7c336f5eef. Report an issue: GitHub.