plandex-ai/plandex · error

error getting current plan state: %v

Error message

error getting current plan state: %v

What it means

checkContextConflicts first fetches the current plan state via api.Client.GetCurrentPlanState to detect files whose context updates conflict with pending changes; this error means that fetch failed. The underlying err (or ApiErr) is wrapped verbatim. No conflict analysis can proceed without the plan state, so the caller (MustLoadContext/UpdateContext) aborts.

Source

Thrown at app/cli/lib/context_conflict.go:19

package lib

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"plandex-cli/api"
	"plandex-cli/term"

	"github.com/fatih/color"
)

func checkContextConflicts(filesByPath map[string]string) (bool, error) {
	// log.Println("Checking for context conflicts.")
	// log.Println(spew.Sdump(filesByPath))

	currentPlan, err := api.Client.GetCurrentPlanState(CurrentPlanId, CurrentBranch)

	if err != nil {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("error getting current plan state: %v", err)
	}

	conflictedPaths := currentPlan.PlanResult.FileResultsByPath.ConflictedPaths(filesByPath)

	// log.Println("Conflicted paths:", conflictedPaths)

	if len(conflictedPaths) > 0 {
		term.StopSpinner()
		color.New(color.Bold, term.ColorHiYellow).Println("⚠️  Some updates conflict with pending changes:")
		for path := range conflictedPaths {
			fmt.Println("📄 " + path)
		}

		fmt.Println()

		res, err := term.ConfirmYesNo("Update context and rebuild changes?")

		if err != nil {

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Solutions

1. Re-authenticate if the wrapped error indicates auth failure
2. Confirm the plan and branch still exist (plandex plans, plandex branches)
3. Check server reachability and retry
4. Run `plandex ps`/server logs if the wrapped error mentions internal errors

Example fix

// before
currentPlan, err := api.Client.GetCurrentPlanState(CurrentPlanId, CurrentBranch)
if err != nil {
	return false, fmt.Errorf("error getting current plan state: %v", err)
}
// after
currentPlan, err := api.Client.GetCurrentPlanState(CurrentPlanId, CurrentBranch)
if err != nil {
	if errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded) {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("plan state fetch timed out — check server connectivity: %w", err)
	}
	return false, fmt.Errorf("error getting current plan state: %w", err)
}

// before conflict check, ensure plan is reachable
if _, err := api.Client.ListPlans(); err != nil {
	return fmt.Errorf("cannot reach plans API — fix connectivity/auth before updating context")
}

// Go: ensure plan state is non-nil before dereferencing
func planStateReady(p *shared.PlanState) bool {
	return p != nil && p.PlanResult != nil && p.PlanResult.FileResultsByPath != nil
}

// Go: retry transient plan-state fetches
currentPlan, err := api.Client.GetCurrentPlanState(CurrentPlanId, CurrentBranch)
if err != nil {
	time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
	currentPlan, err = api.Client.GetCurrentPlanState(CurrentPlanId, CurrentBranch)
	if err != nil { return false, fmt.Errorf("error getting current plan state: %w", err) }
}

When it happens

Trigger: GetCurrentPlanState(CurrentPlanId, CurrentBranch) returns an error — network failure, invalid plan/branch id, expired auth, or server error.

Common situations: Session token expired; plan deleted or branch switched concurrently from another terminal; offline or proxy issues; server deploy/restart mid-command.

Understand the failure class

Background: "API request failed": what wrapped HTTP errors from external APIs mean and how to find the real cause — this error's family across 29 libraries.

Related errors

• error signing in: %v
• error listing contexts: %v
• error getting context body: %v
• error getting default config: %v
• error creating plan: %v

AI-assisted analysis of plandex-ai/plandex@e2d772072e (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/631908f4b822cd94. Report an issue: GitHub.