plandex-ai/plandex · warning

failed to get confirmation user input: %s

Error message

failed to get confirmation user input: %s

What it means

commitApplied asks the user to confirm committing the applied updates via term.ConfirmYesNo when auto-commit is off. If reading the terminal answer fails (non-interactive stdin, closed pipe, EOF), the CLI wraps the terminal error in this message.

Source

Thrown at app/cli/lib/apply.go:603

	})

	if apiErr != nil {
		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to set pending results applied: %s", apiErr.Msg)
	}

	return commitSummary, nil
}

func commitApplied(autoCommit bool, commitSummary string, updatedFiles []string, currentPlanState *shared.CurrentPlanState) (err error) {
	confirmed := autoCommit
	if !autoCommit {
		fmt.Println("✏️  Plandex can commit these updates with an automatically generated message.")
		fmt.Println()
		// fmt.Println("ℹ️  Only the files that Plandex is updating will be included the commit. Any other changes, staged or unstaged, will remain exactly as they are.")
		// fmt.Println()
		confirmed, err = term.ConfirmYesNo("Commit Plandex updates now?")
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("failed to get confirmation user input: %s", err)
		}
	}

	if confirmed {
		// Commit the changes
		msg := currentPlanState.PendingChangesSummaryForApply(commitSummary)
		// log.Println("Committing changes with message:")
		// log.Println(msg)
		// spew.Dump(currentPlanState)
		err = GitAddAndCommitPaths(fs.ProjectRoot, msg, updatedFiles, true)
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("failed to commit changes: %s", err.Error())
		}
	}

	return nil
}

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Solutions

1. Use 'plandex apply --yes' (auto-commit) or the equivalent flag to skip the interactive prompt
2. Run the command in an interactive terminal
3. Pipe 'yes | ' or echo y into the command as a last resort in scripts
4. Redirect stderr/stdin properly and ensure the terminal is attached

Example fix

// before (script)
plandex apply
// after (non-interactive)
plandex apply --yes

// detect non-interactive stdin before prompting
stat, _ := os.Stdin.Stat()
if (stat.Mode() & os.ModeCharDevice) == 0 {
  // use auto-commit flag instead of prompting
}

confirmed, err := term.ConfirmYesNo("Commit Plandex updates now?")
if err != nil {
  // fall back to auto-commit or abort cleanly
  return fmt.Errorf("confirmation failed (non-interactive terminal?): %w", err)
}

When it happens

Trigger: term.ConfirmYesNo("Commit Plandex updates now?") returns an error — stdin is not a TTY or is closed, the user pressed Ctrl-D/Ctrl-C, or the terminal read was interrupted.

Common situations: Running plandex apply in CI or scripted pipelines without a TTY; piping stdin from another command; running in a sandboxed environment with no controlling terminal.

Related errors

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AI-assisted analysis of plandex-ai/plandex@e2d772072e (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/434740b8eb08d6fa. Report an issue: GitHub.