Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm · critical · Error

No Gitee AI API key was set.

Error message

No Gitee AI API key was set.

What it means

Thrown by the GiteeAILLM constructor when process.env.GITEE_AI_API_KEY is unset. Gitee AI (ai.gitee.com/v1) is an OpenAI-compatible serverless inference platform that requires the API key as the bearer token; without it the OpenAI client cannot authenticate.

Source

Thrown at server/utils/AiProviders/giteeai/index.js:21

const { safeJsonParse, toValidNumber } = require("../../http");
const LEGACY_MODEL_MAP = require("../modelMap/legacy");
const { NativeEmbedder } = require("../../EmbeddingEngines/native");
const {
  LLMPerformanceMonitor,
} = require("../../helpers/chat/LLMPerformanceMonitor");
const {
  handleDefaultStreamResponseV2,
} = require("../../helpers/chat/responses");
const cacheFolder = path.resolve(
  process.env.STORAGE_DIR
    ? path.resolve(process.env.STORAGE_DIR, "models", "giteeai")
    : path.resolve(__dirname, `../../../storage/models/giteeai`)
);

class GiteeAILLM {
  constructor(embedder = null, modelPreference = null) {
    if (!process.env.GITEE_AI_API_KEY)
      throw new Error("No Gitee AI API key was set.");
    const { OpenAI: OpenAIApi } = require("openai");

    this.className = "GiteeAILLM";
    this.openai = new OpenAIApi({
      apiKey: process.env.GITEE_AI_API_KEY,
      baseURL: "https://ai.gitee.com/v1",
    });
    this.model = modelPreference || process.env.GITEE_AI_MODEL_PREF || "";
    this.limits = {
      history: this.promptWindowLimit() * 0.15,
      system: this.promptWindowLimit() * 0.15,
      user: this.promptWindowLimit() * 0.7,
    };

    this.embedder = embedder ?? new NativeEmbedder();
    this.defaultTemp = 0.7;

    if (!fs.existsSync(cacheFolder))

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Solutions

1. Generate a token in the Gitee AI console and set GITEE_AI_API_KEY in .env
2. Restart AnythingLLM so process.env reloads
3. Verify the token with curl https://ai.gitee.com/v1/models -H 'Authorization: Bearer <key>'
4. Pass the env var through in containerized deployments

Example fix

// before
// .env: GITEE_AI_MODEL_PREF=Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct   // no key

// after
// .env:
//   GITEE_AI_API_KEY=<token from console>
//   GITEE_AI_MODEL_PREF=Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct

if (!process.env.GITEE_AI_API_KEY) {
  throw new ConfigError('Generate a Gitee AI token and set GITEE_AI_API_KEY.');
}

When it happens

Trigger: Constructing `new GiteeAILLM(embedder, modelPreference)` while GITEE_AI_API_KEY is absent. Fires at provider selection when the user picked Gitee AI but supplied no key.

Common situations: .env missing GITEE_AI_API_KEY; key not yet generated in the Gitee AI console; key revoked; Docker deployment without env passthrough; account region/access restrictions.

Related errors

• No Gemini API key was set.
• No Groq API key was set.
• No Foundry Base Path was set.
• GenericOpenAI must have a valid base path to use for the api
• KoboldCPP must have a valid base path to use for the api.

AI-assisted analysis of Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm@526360e320 (2026-08-13). Data as JSON: /api/errors/d3465f4b7a2a5247. Report an issue: GitHub.