go-task/task · error

no options provided

Error message

no options provided

What it means

Prompter.Select refuses to start a selection prompt when the options slice is empty, since there is nothing to render or choose from. It is a programming/API-misuse guard, raised before any terminal I/O.

Source

Thrown at internal/input/input.go:56

	)

	result, err := prog.Run()
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	model := result.(textModel)
	if model.cancelled {
		return "", ErrCancelled
	}

	return model.value, nil
}

// Select prompts the user to select from a list of options
func (p *Prompter) Select(varName string, options []string) (string, error) {
	if len(options) == 0 {
		return "", errors.New("no options provided")
	}

	m := newSelectModel(varName, options)

	prog := tea.NewProgram(m,
		tea.WithInput(p.Stdin),
		tea.WithOutput(p.Stderr),
	)

	result, err := prog.Run()
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	model := result.(selectModel)
	if model.cancelled {
		return "", ErrCancelled
	}

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Solutions

1. Ensure the options source (var enum, dynamic command output) returns at least one entry before prompting
2. Skip the Select call and use a default when the list is empty
3. Check len(options) > 0 at the call site

Example fix

// before
choice, _ := p.Select("env", opts) // opts may be empty
// after
if len(opts) == 0 {
    opts = []string{"default"}
}
choice, _ := p.Select("env", opts)

if len(options) == 0 {
    options = []string{fallback}
}
choice, err := p.Select("name", options)

func hasOptions(opts []string) bool {
    return len(opts) > 0
}

choice, err := p.Select("name", options)
if err != nil {
    return fmt.Errorf("select prompt failed: %w", err)
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling Prompter.Select(varName, options) where len(options)==0, typically because the caller computed choices from data that turned out empty.

Common situations: Task generates select options from vars/enums that resolved to an empty list (e.g. a dynamic var command returned nothing), then attempts to prompt.

Related errors

• prompt cancelled
• prompt cancelled
• no continue values provided
• enum reference %q must resolve to a list
• enum reference %q must contain only strings

AI-assisted analysis of go-task/task@385e5ad92a (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b0d0767ececc8bc7. Report an issue: GitHub.