JuliusBrussee/caveman · error

${label}: ${key} has no pricing block

Error message

${label}: ${key} has no pricing block

What it means

Thrown by selectRows() in scripts/generate-agent-catalog.mjs when a row is region-agnostic (`region: global`) and priced in USD but its `pricing` field is missing, null, an array, or a non-object. Regional rows and non-USD rows are skipped politely with a recorded reason; a global USD row is expected to be carried into the agent catalog, so lacking a pricing block entirely is treated as malformed data.

Source

Thrown at scripts/generate-agent-catalog.mjs:167

    if (!entry.reasons.includes(reason)) entry.reasons.push(reason);
  };
  for (const row of rows) {
    for (const field of ["provider", "model", "region", "currency"]) {
      if (typeof row[field] !== "string" || row[field] === "") {
        throw new Error(`${label}: row is missing a string "${field}"`);
      }
    }
    const key = `${row.provider}/${row.model}`;
    if (row.region !== REGION_AGNOSTIC) {
      skipRegional(key, row.region);
      continue;
    }
    if (row.currency !== REQUIRED_CURRENCY) {
      skip(key, `priced in ${row.currency}, not ${REQUIRED_CURRENCY}`);
      continue;
    }
    if (row.pricing === null || typeof row.pricing !== "object" || Array.isArray(row.pricing)) {
      throw new Error(`${label}: ${key} has no pricing block`);
    }
    const input = rate(row.pricing.input_per_million, `${key}.input_per_million`, label);
    const output = rate(row.pricing.output_per_million, `${key}.output_per_million`, label);
    if (input === null || output === null) {
      skip(key, "no list price for input or output tokens");
      continue;
    }
    if (seen.has(key)) throw new Error(`${label}: duplicate region-agnostic row ${key}`);
    seen.add(key);
    // reasoning_output_per_million is null on every provider that bills thinking
    // tokens at the plain output rate. catalogCost subtracts reasoning tokens
    // out of output before pricing them, so a 0 here would make them free.
    const reasoning = rate(row.pricing.reasoning_output_per_million, `${key}.reasoning_output_per_million`, label);
    selected.push({
      key,
      price: {
        inputPerMillion: input,
        outputPerMillion: output,

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Solutions

1. Add a `pricing:` block to the row with at least `input_per_million` and `output_per_million` (cache/reasoning fields optional, null allowed).
2. If the row genuinely has no USD global list price, change `region` to a concrete region or `currency` to the real currency so the row is skipped with a reason instead of failing the build.
3. Re-run the generator to confirm the row is selected or recorded as skipped.

Example fix

# before
- provider: acme
  model: acme-1
  region: global
  currency: USD
# after
- provider: acme
  model: acme-1
  region: global
  currency: USD
  pricing:
    input_per_million: 1.5
    output_per_million: 6

function hasPricingBlock(row) {
  return row.pricing !== null && typeof row.pricing === "object" && !Array.isArray(row.pricing);
}

When it happens

Trigger: A row with `region: global` and `currency: USD` but no `pricing:` sub-block (or `pricing: null`, or `pricing:` populated with 4-space dash sequence items making it an array).

Common situations: Adding a new global model row and forgetting the pricing block; refactoring the catalog and dropping the nested block; a row that previously was regional flipped to global without adding prices.

Related errors

• %s: provider, model, and region are required
• %s %s/%s: unsupported currency %q
• %s %s/%s: invalid pricing
• ${label}:${lineNo}: "${text}" is not a finite number
• ${label}: row is missing a string "${field}"

AI-assisted analysis of JuliusBrussee/caveman@27d5a3981a (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/07c688ced9957ff3. Report an issue: GitHub.