zed-industries/zed · warning · Error

Message params.text is undefined: ${JSON.stringify(message)}

Error message

Message params.text is undefined: ${JSON.stringify(message)}

What it means

github_raw_url accepts only two hosts: github.com (blob URLs) and raw.githubusercontent.com (raw file URLs). Any other host in the pasted URL is rejected with this message before parsing continues. It is a whitelist check in the skill-import input validation.

Source

Thrown at crates/prettier/src/prettier_server.js:167

async function handleMessage(message, prettier) {
  const { method, id, params } = message;
  if (method === undefined) {
    throw new Error(`Message method is undefined: ${JSON.stringify(message)}`);
  } else if (method == "initialized") {
    return;
  } else if (method === "shutdown") {
    sendResponse({ result: {} });
  } else if (method == "exit") {
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (id === undefined) {
    throw new Error(`Message id is undefined: ${JSON.stringify(message)}`);
  }

  if (method === "prettier/format") {
    if (params === undefined || params.text === undefined) {
      throw new Error(`Message params.text is undefined: ${JSON.stringify(message)}`);
    }
    if (params.options === undefined) {
      throw new Error(`Message params.options is undefined: ${JSON.stringify(message)}`);
    }

    let resolvedConfig = {};
    if (params.options.filepath) {
      resolvedConfig = (await prettier.prettier.resolveConfig(params.options.filepath, { editorconfig: true })) || {};

      if (params.options.ignorePath) {
        const fileInfo = await prettier.prettier.getFileInfo(params.options.filepath, {
          ignorePath: params.options.ignorePath,
        });
        if (fileInfo.ignored) {
          process.stderr.write(
            `Ignoring file '${params.options.filepath}' based on rules in '${params.options.ignorePath}'\n`,
          );
          sendResponse({ id, result: { text: params.text } });

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Solutions

1. Open the file inside its GitHub repository and copy the github.com blob URL
2. For raw links, use the Raw button on the GitHub file page, which yields a raw.githubusercontent.com URL
3. If the file is only on another forge, move or mirror it to github.com first

Example fix

# before
https://gist.github.com/acme/abc123/repo

# after
https://github.com/acme/skills/blob/main/SKILL.md

let url = url::Url::parse(input.trim())?;
ensure!(
    matches!(url.host_str(), Some("github.com") | Some("raw.githubusercontent.com")),
    "Paste a GitHub .md URL"
);

fn is_github_host(input: &str) -> bool {
    url::Url::parse(input.trim())
        .ok()
        .and_then(|u| u.host_str().map(|h| h == "github.com" || h == "raw.githubusercontent.com"))
        .unwrap_or(false)
}

When it happens

Trigger: The URL host is neither github.com nor raw.githubusercontent.com: gist.github.com/..., gist.githubusercontent.com/..., gitlab.com/..., cdn.jsdelivr.net/..., bitbucket.org/...

Common situations: The skill file lives in a GitHub gist, on GitLab, or behind a CDN/mirror; the user pasted the repo home page of a different forge; the URL was copied from a docs site that embeds GitHub content.

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• Message method is undefined: ${JSON.stringify(message)}
• Message id is undefined: ${JSON.stringify(message)}

AI-assisted analysis of zed-industries/zed@f4178619ac (2026-08-20). Data as JSON: /api/errors/c82d424dca69781f. Report an issue: GitHub.