upstash/context7 · info

No skills selected

Error message

No skills selected

What it means

After the interactive skill selection for a repository, selectedSkills is empty — the user submitted the checkbox with nothing ticked (which, unlike Ctrl+C, does not throw). The CLI treats an empty selection as a dead end, warns 'No skills selected', and exits before asking for install targets.

Source

Thrown at packages/cli/src/commands/skill.ts:393

          loop: false,
          theme: {
            style: {
              message: (text: string, status: string) => {
                if (status === "done") return pc.dim(text.split("\n")[0]);
                return pc.bold(text);
              },
            },
          },
        });
      } catch {
        log.warn("Installation cancelled");
        return;
      }
    }
  }

  if (selectedSkills.length === 0) {
    log.warn("No skills selected");
    return;
  }

  const targets = await promptForInstallTargets(options);
  if (!targets) {
    log.warn("Installation cancelled");
    return;
  }

  const targetDirs = getTargetDirs(targets);

  const installSpinner = ora("Installing skills...").start();

  let permissionError = false;
  const failedDirs: Set<string> = new Set();
  const installedSkills: string[] = [];

  for (const skill of selectedSkills) {

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Solutions

1. Re-run the command and keep at least one skill ticked (space toggles, enter submits).
2. Skip the UI with `--all` or by naming the skill: `context7 skill add <repo> <skill>`.

// Guard the selection result before proceeding
if (!selectedSkills || selectedSkills.length === 0) {
  log.warn("No skills selected");
  return;
}

function hasSelectedSkills(s: unknown[]): s is [unknown, ...unknown[]] {
  return s.length > 0;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Pressing Enter on the skill checkbox with zero items selected; reachable only when the multi-select was shown (repo has multiple skills, no --all, no single-skill shortcut).

Common situations: User untoggles everything while browsing; spacebar/arrow-key slip unticks the last selected item before submission.

Related errors

• Installation cancelled
• Remove cancelled
• Setup cancelled
• This skill contains potentially malicious content and cannot
• No skills found in ${repo}

AI-assisted analysis of upstash/context7@5284672feb (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/95c60677ca5db2e9. Report an issue: GitHub.