{"record":{"id":"12fb48a4cbbe6e54","repo":"danny-avila/LibreChat","slug":"trouble-deleting-assistant-actions-for-assistant-i","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"Trouble deleting Assistant Actions for Assistant ID: ${assistant_id}","messagePattern":"Trouble deleting Assistant Actions for Assistant ID: (.+?)","errorType":"exception","errorClass":"Error","httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"api/server/services/ActionService.js","lineNumber":505,"sourceCode":"  }\n\n  return decryptedMetadata;\n}\n\n/**\n * Deletes an action and its corresponding assistant.\n * @param {Object} params - The parameters for the function.\n * @param {OpenAIClient} params.req - The Express Request object.\n * @param {string} params.assistant_id - The ID of the assistant.\n */\nconst deleteAssistantActions = async ({ req, assistant_id }) => {\n  try {\n    await deleteActions({ assistant_id, user: req.user.id });\n    await deleteAssistant({ assistant_id, user: req.user.id });\n  } catch (error) {\n    const message = 'Trouble deleting Assistant Actions for Assistant ID: ' + assistant_id;\n    logger.error(message, error);\n    throw new Error(message);\n  }\n};\n\nmodule.exports = {\n  deleteAssistantActions,\n  validateAndUpdateTool,\n  legacyDomainEncode,\n  createActionTool,\n  encryptMetadata,\n  decryptMetadata,\n  loadActionSets,\n  domainParser,\n};\n","sourceCodeStart":487,"sourceCodeEnd":519,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat/blob/5ff282f9006c436e561de1afd39a481bea1ef0d8/api/server/services/ActionService.js#L487-L519","documentation":"Thrown by deleteAssistantActions when either deleteActions or deleteAssistant rejects. The assistant id is logged with the underlying error and the operation is aborted so the caller does not silently leave orphaned actions or assistant records.","triggerScenarios":"The assistant or its actions cannot be deleted from the local DB, or the downstream OpenAI deleteAssistant call fails (network, auth, not-found). Occurs during assistant deletion that cascades to its actions.","commonSituations":"OpenAI API key lacks delete permissions or expired; transient network failure to OpenAI; the assistant was already deleted upstream (404); DB connectivity issues during the cascaded delete.","solutions":["Retry the deletion after a short delay for transient network/API failures.","Verify the OpenAI API key has permission to delete the assistant.","Check whether the assistant still exists upstream before retrying (handle 404 idempotently).","Inspect the logged underlying error for DB-specific failures."],"exampleFix":null,"handlingStrategy":"retry","validationCode":"async function safeDeleteAssistant(assistant_id) {\n  try { await openai.beta.assistants.del(assistant_id); return true; }\n  catch (e) { if (e.status === 404) return true; throw e; }\n}","typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":"try { await deleteAssistantActions({ req, assistant_id }); }\ncatch (e) {\n  if (/Trouble deleting/.test(e.message)) { logger.error(e); return res.status(502).json({ error: 'Assistant deletion failed, retry later' }); }\n  throw e;\n}","preventionTips":["Treat upstream 404 as success (idempotent delete).","Retry transient OpenAI/DB failures with backoff.","Verify API key delete permissions for the assistants resource."],"tags":["actions","assistants","deletion","cascade"],"backgroundTag":null,"analyzedSha":"5ff282f9006c436e561de1afd39a481bea1ef0d8","analyzedAt":"2026-08-12T21:38:08.145Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-08-12T23:17:12.415Z"}