santifer/career-ops · error · Error

Template ${fileFor(chosen)} missing required placeholders: $

Error message

Template ${fileFor(chosen)} missing required placeholders: ${v.missing.map((m) => `{{${m}}}`).join(', ')}

What it means

Error "Template ${fileFor(chosen)} missing required placeholders: ${v.missing.map((m) => `{{${m}}}`).join(', ')}" thrown in santifer/career-ops.

Source

Thrown at cv-templates.mjs:154

  const explicit = Boolean(name && String(name).trim());
  let chosen = kebab(explicit ? name : loadProfileDefault(kind, { profilePath }) || 'standard');
  const fileFor = (n) => (n === 'standard' ? `${cfg.prefix}.${format}` : `${cfg.prefix}.${n}.${format}`);

  let path = resolve(dir, fileFor(chosen));
  if (!existsSync(path)) {
    if (fallback && chosen !== 'standard') {
      chosen = 'standard';
      path = resolve(dir, fileFor(chosen));
    }
    if (!existsSync(path)) {
      throw new Error(`Template not found for kind=${kind} name=${chosen} (${fileFor(chosen)})`);
    }
  }
  if (format === 'html') {
    const v = validateTemplate(path, kind);
    if (!v.ok) {
      throw new Error(
        `Template ${fileFor(chosen)} missing required placeholders: ${v.missing.map((m) => `{{${m}}}`).join(', ')}`
      );
    }
  }
  return path;
}

// ---- CLI ----
const isMain = process.argv[1] && resolve(process.argv[1]) === fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
if (isMain) {
  const argv = process.argv.slice(2);
  const cmd = argv[0];
  const kind = argv[1];
  const flags = Object.fromEntries(
    argv.filter((a) => a.startsWith('--')).map((a) => {
      const [k, v] = a.replace(/^--/, '').split('=');
      return [k, v ?? true];
    })

View on GitHub (pinned to 9b17a8ac97)

Solutions

1. Add the missing {{placeholders}} to the template so the CV renderer can inject values.
2. Or remove the fields that depend on them from the render path.

Example fix

# add {{summary}} and {{experience}} back into templates/cv-template.html

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at cv-templates.mjs:154 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of santifer/career-ops@9b17a8ac97 (2026-08-13). Data as JSON: /api/errors/bb331937ea8dfce5. Report an issue: GitHub.