skills/emdash-cli: EDITING-FLOW.md shows 409s as an EmDashApiError dump with status/code; the CLI prints only the message
Description
Docs-only, in skills/emdash-cli/EDITING-FLOW.md. Both § Conflict Handling and § Locked Entries show a refused content update as an error object:
EmDashApiError: Ada is holding this entry
status: 409
code: ENTRY_LOCKEDand § Locked Entries then says "Check code before you retry."
The CLI never prints that. Every content command in packages/core/src/cli/commands/content.ts catches the error and runs consola.error(error instanceof Error ? error.message : "Unknown error") then process.exit(1) (same on current main). So the real output for a lock is one line:
ERROR Ada is holding this entryand a version conflict prints only its message the same way. At the CLI the message text is the only thing that distinguishes a lock from a conflict, and the "check code" advice cannot be followed. A script that needs code has to call the REST API.
Expected: the skill shows the CLI's actual one-line output for both 409s, and says that code is only visible on the REST API. The docs site is already right about this: reference/cli describes the 409s in prose ("returns 409 with code ENTRY_LOCKED and a message that names the holder") with no error-object example, so only the skills/ copy has drifted.
Steps to reproduce
- Open an entry in the admin as user A (edit locking on, the default) and leave it open.
- As user B, from a terminal with a valid token:
emdash content update <collection> <id> --rev <rev> --data '{"title":"x"}' --url http://localhost:4321 - stderr is
ERROR <A's name> is holding this entry, exit code 1. Nostatus, nocode. - Compare with
skills/emdash-cli/EDITING-FLOW.md§ Locked Entries, which shows anEmDashApiErrorblock withstatus: 409/code: ENTRY_LOCKED.
Environment
- emdash version: 0.38.0 (and
packages/core/src/cli/commands/content.tsonmainat filing time) - Node.js version: v24.16.0
- Runtime: Cloudflare Workers (astro dev locally)
- OS: macOS
Screenshots
Not applicable.
Logs / error output
$ emdash content update cards <id> --rev <rev> --data '{…}' --url http://localhost:4321
ERROR Probe Editor is holding this entry
$ echo $?
1Source: emdash-cms/emdash