phacility/phabricator · warning · Exception

Too many Conduit methods provided.

Error message

Too many Conduit methods provided.

What it means

The SSH conduit workflow accepts the method as a wildcard argument but requires exactly one value (count($methodv) > 1 throws 'Too many Conduit methods provided.'). Extra tokens after the method name are interpreted as additional methods rather than method arguments.

Solutions

1. Keep exactly one token after 'conduit' (the method name) and pass every parameter via the JSON stdin payload.
2. Check shell quoting/word-splitting if you believe you passed only one token.

Example fix

# before
$ echo '{"params":"{}"}' | ssh -p 2222 vcs@phab.example.com conduit maniphest.task.search 123
# after
$ echo '{"params":"{\"constraints\":{\"ids\":[123]}}"}' | ssh -p 2222 vcs@phab.example.com conduit maniphest.task.search

# Exactly one method token; parameters go in the stdin JSON.
set -- method_name_only
[ "$#" -eq 1 ] || { echo 'one method, params via stdin JSON'; exit 2; }
echo "$PAYLOAD" | ssh -p 2222 vcs@phab.example.com conduit "$1"

When it happens

Trigger: Running `ssh ... conduit maniphest.task.search 123` expecting 123 to be an argument; a quoting error that splits one argument into two tokens.

Common situations: Assuming a POSIX-style CLI where arguments follow the subcommand; all real parameters must travel inside the JSON on stdin, not on the command line.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Unknown argument", "Invalid value", and "must be one of": invalid CLI argument errors explained — this error's family across 35 libraries.

Related errors

• No Conduit method provided.
• Invalid JSON input.
• No such user " " exists.
• Specify a file to read parameters from with "--input".
• Specify a method to call with "--method".

AI-assisted analysis of phacility/phabricator@5720a38cfe (2026-08-21). Data as JSON: /api/errors/22a8497be3976ed3. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at src/applications/conduit/ssh/ConduitSSHWorkflow.php:23

  protected function didConstruct() {
    $this->setName('conduit');
    $this->setArguments(
      array(
        array(
          'name'      => 'method',
          'wildcard'  => true,
        ),
      ));
  }

  public function execute(PhutilArgumentParser $args) {
    $time_start = microtime(true);

    $methodv = $args->getArg('method');
    if (!$methodv) {
      throw new Exception(pht('No Conduit method provided.'));
    } else if (count($methodv) > 1) {
      throw new Exception(pht('Too many Conduit methods provided.'));
    }

    $method = head($methodv);

    $json = $this->readAllInput();
    $raw_params = null;
    try {
      $raw_params = phutil_json_decode($json);
    } catch (PhutilJSONParserException $ex) {
      throw new PhutilProxyException(
        pht('Invalid JSON input.'),
        $ex);
    }

    $params = idx($raw_params, 'params', '[]');
    $params = phutil_json_decode($params);
    $metadata = idx($params, '__conduit__', array());
    unset($params['__conduit__']);

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