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asdf list-all benthos produces an error

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start with the README instructions and reproduce the failure using the listed asdf commands. Trace the benthos plugin's list-all callback that emits the jq error, then verify that asdf list-all benthos completes successfully and returns available versions.

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Description

bug

Calling asdf list-all benthos produces the error:

❯ asdf list-all benthos     
Plugin benthos's list-all callback script failed with output:
jq: error (at <stdin>:5): Cannot index string with string "name"

How to reproduce

Follow the README with an asdf installation where the benthos plugin is not installed yet:

❯ asdf plugin add benthos
❯ asdf plugin update benthos
❯ asdf list-all benthos
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