nexu-io/open-design · error

proposal body is required

Error message

proposal body is required

What it means

Thrown by createAutomationProposal() as the first guard when the input argument is falsy or not an object. It is the top-level body-presence check that runs before field validation (title, summary, patch).

Source

Thrown at apps/daemon/src/automation-proposals.ts:77

}

export async function getAutomationProposal(
  dataDir: string,
  id: string,
): Promise<AutomationEvolutionProposal | null> {
  const proposals = await listAutomationProposals(dataDir, { status: 'all' });
  return proposals.find((proposal) => proposal.id === id) ?? null;
}

export async function createAutomationProposal(
  dataDir: string,
  input: CreateAutomationEvolutionProposalRequest & {
    id?: string;
    status?: AutomationProposalStatus;
  },
): Promise<AutomationEvolutionProposal> {
  const now = new Date().toISOString();
  if (!input || typeof input !== 'object') throw new Error('proposal body is required');
  if (typeof input.title !== 'string' || !input.title.trim()) {
    throw new Error('proposal title is required');
  }
  if (typeof input.summary !== 'string' || !input.summary.trim()) {
    throw new Error('proposal summary is required');
  }
  if (!input.patch || typeof input.patch !== 'object') {
    throw new Error('proposal patch is required');
  }
  const status =
    input.status && VALID_STATUSES.has(input.status)
      ? input.status
      : 'pending-review';
  const proposal: AutomationEvolutionProposal = {
    id:
      typeof input.id === 'string' && input.id.trim()
        ? input.id.trim()
        : `proposal_${randomUUID()}`,

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Solutions

1. Pass a parsed object containing at least title, summary, and patch.
2. Ensure the HTTP layer applies JSON body parsing before reaching the service.
3. If constructing the input conditionally, default to an early return when fields are missing.

Example fix

// before
await createAutomationProposal(dataDir, null);
// after
await createAutomationProposal(dataDir, { title: 'T', summary: 'S', targetKind: 'memory-node', action: 'create', patch: { format: 'json', after: '{}' } });

if (!input || typeof input !== 'object') {
  throw new Error('proposal body is required');
}

function isProposalInput(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
  return !!value && typeof value === 'object' && !Array.isArray(value);
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling createAutomationProposal() directly or via POST to the proposals endpoint with null, undefined, a primitive, or an unparsed JSON string.

Common situations: Route handler missing body-parsing middleware; programmatic caller passing a serialized string; chained caller that conditionally built the body and ended up undefined.

Related errors

• proposal title is required
• proposal summary is required
• proposal patch is required
• sourceKind must be one of upload, url, repo, connector, arti
• ingestion body is required

AI-assisted analysis of nexu-io/open-design@5be4028344 (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a79f8806de7ccd45. Report an issue: GitHub.