tinyhumansai/openhuman · error · Error

unknown case '${name}' (valid: ${ALL_CASES.join(", ")})

Error message

unknown case '${name}' (valid: ${ALL_CASES.join(", ")})

What it means

goals-live.mjs validates every --case value against ALL_CASES = ["list", "add", "edit", "delete", "reflect", "list-final"] before running. The throw fires in parseArgs when the supplied case name is not in that list, and the message helpfully prints the valid set. It is a fail-fast CLI argument check so the script never starts a core, spends tokens, or mutates goals for a case that does not exist.

Source

Thrown at scripts/debug/goals-live.mjs:104

      case "--token":
        opts.token = next();
        break;
      case "--workspace":
        opts.workspace = next();
        break;
      case "--spawn-core":
        opts.spawnCore = true;
        break;
      case "--isolated-workspace":
        opts.isolatedWorkspace = true;
        break;
      case "--keep-workspace":
        opts.keepWorkspace = true;
        break;
      case "--case": {
        const name = next();
        if (!ALL_CASES.includes(name))
          throw new Error(`unknown case '${name}' (valid: ${ALL_CASES.join(", ")})`);
        opts.cases.push(name);
        break;
      }
      case "--reset":
        opts.reset = true;
        break;
      case "--context":
        opts.context = next();
        break;
      case "--model":
        opts.model = next();
        break;
      case "--show-thoughts":
        opts.showThoughts = true;
        break;
      case "--rpc-timeout-ms":
        opts.rpcTimeoutMs = Number(next());
        break;

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Solutions

1. Re-run with the exact valid name printed in the message, e.g. `--case list` or `--case reflect`
2. Run `node scripts/debug/goals-live.mjs --help` (or `pnpm debug goals-live -- -h`) to see the current case list
3. If the name came from docs, check scripts/debug/goals-live-cases.md for the up-to-date case descriptions
4. Repeat --case flags to run a subset; omit --case entirely to run all six cases

Example fix

// before
node scripts/debug/goals-live.mjs --case lst

// after
node scripts/debug/goals-live.mjs --case list

// before invoking the script, assert case names against the same closed set
const VALID = ["list", "add", "edit", "delete", "reflect", "list-final"];
const cases = argv.filter((a, i) => argv[i - 1] === "--case");
const bad = cases.filter((c) => !VALID.includes(c));
if (bad.length) {
  console.error(`invalid --case values: ${bad.join(", ")}; valid: ${VALID.join(", ")}`);
  process.exit(2);
}

const isGoalCase = (name) =>
  ["list", "add", "edit", "delete", "reflect", "list-final"].includes(name);

When it happens

Trigger: Running `node scripts/debug/goals-live.mjs --case lst` (typo), `--case reflect-` or any renamed/removed case name; also copying a case name from an older revision of the script or from harness-live-audit-cases.md terminology into --case.

Common situations: Typos at the terminal, tab-completion absence in the pnpm debug wrapper, or a case list drift after the script was updated (e.g. list-final added later) while muscle memory or docs reference old names.

Related errors

• unknown option: ${arg}
• --isolated-workspace requires --spawn-core
• unknown option: ${arg}
• missing value for ${arg}
• ${label} must be an integer between 1 and 65535

AI-assisted analysis of tinyhumansai/openhuman@a221052e0d (2026-08-16). Data as JSON: /api/errors/e09bf3425c26667d. Report an issue: GitHub.