JuliusBrussee/caveman · error

%s %s/%s: invalid pricing

Error message

%s %s/%s: invalid pricing

What it means

Thrown by the catalog YAML loader when an entry's pricing block fails cost.ValidPrice — the structured per-token price fields (input/output/cache etc.) are missing, malformed, or out of range. Validation runs at load so an unusable pricing row never reaches metering.

Source

Thrown at shared/platform/catalog/catalog.go:270

		if err == nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("multiple YAML documents are not allowed")
		}
		return nil, err
	}
	if len(decoded) == 0 {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("catalog is empty")
	}
	seen := make(map[string]struct{}, len(decoded))
	for i, entry := range decoded {
		label := fmt.Sprintf("entry %d", i)
		if strings.TrimSpace(entry.Provider) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(entry.Model) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(entry.Region) == "" {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: provider, model, and region are required", label)
		}
		if entry.Currency != "USD" {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s %s/%s: unsupported currency %q", label, entry.Provider, entry.Model, entry.Currency)
		}
		if !cost.ValidPrice(entry.Pricing) {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s %s/%s: invalid pricing", label, entry.Provider, entry.Model)
		}
		verified, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, entry.VerifiedAt)
		if err != nil || verified.IsZero() {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s %s/%s: verified_at must be RFC3339", label, entry.Provider, entry.Model)
		}
		if verified.After(time.Now().UTC().Add(24 * time.Hour)) {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s %s/%s: verified_at is in the future", label, entry.Provider, entry.Model)
		}
		if entry.CapabilitiesVerifiedAt != "" {
			capVerified, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, entry.CapabilitiesVerifiedAt)
			if err != nil || capVerified.IsZero() {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s %s/%s: capabilities_verified_at must be RFC3339", label, entry.Provider, entry.Model)
			}
			if capVerified.After(time.Now().UTC().Add(24 * time.Hour)) {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s %s/%s: capabilities_verified_at is in the future", label, entry.Provider, entry.Model)
			}
		}
		if len(entry.Sources) == 0 {

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Solutions

1. Match the pricing structure of a known-good sibling entry in the same file, with numeric per-token values.
2. Run cost.ValidPrice (or the repo's catalog test/lint) on the edited file before shipping to catch the failing row early.
3. If prices are genuinely unknown, follow the project's convention for such rows instead of an empty block — check how other unverifiable entries are represented.

Example fix

# before
pricing: {}

# after
pricing:
  input_per_mtok: 3.0
  output_per_mtok: 15.0

if !cost.ValidPrice(entry.Pricing) {
    return fmt.Errorf("entry %d %s/%s: pricing block rejected by cost.ValidPrice", i, entry.Provider, entry.Model)
}

Fail catalog load at startup with the entry index; do not meter with unvalidated prices.

When it happens

Trigger: Entries with an empty/absent pricing block, non-numeric price strings, negative values, or structurally wrong nesting (e.g. pricing written as a flat scalar instead of the expected shape) — anything cost.ValidPrice rejects.

Common situations: Adding a model with unknown prices and leaving pricing empty; pasting prices with currency symbols or commas ("$3.00", "3,00"); schema drift after the pricing struct gained new required fields.

Related errors

• ${label}: ${key} has no pricing block
• %s: provider, model, and region are required
• %s %s/%s: unsupported currency %q
• ${label}:${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/2b54d31f94774cd7. Report an issue: GitHub.