fix(start): print error when no agents are defined

Previously start silently exited 0 when the manifest had no agents, leaving the user with no feedback. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 13:18:28 -04:00
parent 8f9005582b
commit f6af70927f
1 changed files with 7 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ def cmd_start(argv: list[str]) -> int:

    agent_name: str | None = args.name
    if agent_name is None:
+        if not manifest.all_agent_names:
+            print(
+                "bot-bottle: no agents defined. "
+                "Add an agent to ~/.bot-bottle/agents/ or ./bot-bottle/agents/ to get started.",
+                file=sys.stderr,
+            )
+            return 1
        agent_name = tui.filter_select(
            manifest.all_agent_names,
            title="Select agent",