{"record":{"id":"d8afa3c05015ff08","repo":"danny-avila/LibreChat","slug":"assistants-api-key-not-provided-please-provide-it","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"Assistants API key not provided. Please provide it again.","messagePattern":"Assistants API key not provided\\. Please provide it again\\.","errorType":"exception","errorClass":null,"httpStatus":null,"severity":"critical","filePath":"api/server/services/Endpoints/assistants/initalize.js","lineNumber":40,"sourceCode":"  let apiKey = userProvidesKey ? userValues.apiKey : ASSISTANTS_API_KEY;\n  let baseURL = userProvidesURL ? userValues.baseURL : ASSISTANTS_BASE_URL;\n\n  const opts = {\n    defaultHeaders: {\n      'OpenAI-Beta': `assistants=${version}`,\n    },\n  };\n\n  if (userProvidesKey & !apiKey) {\n    throw new Error(\n      JSON.stringify({\n        type: ErrorTypes.NO_USER_KEY,\n      }),\n    );\n  }\n\n  if (!apiKey) {\n    throw new Error('Assistants API key not provided. Please provide it again.');\n  }\n\n  if (baseURL) {\n    opts.baseURL = baseURL;\n  }\n\n  const proxyDispatcher = getProxyDispatcher(PROXY);\n  if (proxyDispatcher) {\n    opts.fetchOptions = {\n      dispatcher: proxyDispatcher,\n    };\n  }\n\n  if (OPENAI_ORGANIZATION) {\n    opts.organization = OPENAI_ORGANIZATION;\n  }\n\n  /** @type {OpenAIClient} */","sourceCodeStart":22,"sourceCodeEnd":58,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat/blob/5ff282f9006c436e561de1afd39a481bea1ef0d8/api/server/services/Endpoints/assistants/initalize.js#L22-L58","documentation":"Thrown when no API key is available at all for the Assistants endpoint: the server is not configured with ASSISTANTS_API_KEY and the user did not provide one. This is the non-user-provided-key branch failure, indicating server-side configuration is incomplete.","triggerScenarios":"userProvidesKey is false (or no user key given) and ASSISTANTS_API_KEY is unset/empty, so apiKey resolves to a falsy value.","commonSituations":"Fresh deployment missing the ASSISTANTS_API_KEY environment variable; .env not loaded; the key was removed during a config rotation; typo in the variable name.","solutions":["Set ASSISTANTS_API_KEY in the server environment/.env and restart.","If using user-provided keys, ensure the user supplies one (which instead yields the no_user_key error).","Verify the variable name matches what the loader reads (ASSISTANTS_API_KEY).","Confirm the env file is loaded in the running process."],"exampleFix":"# .env\nASSISTANTS_API_KEY=sk-...","handlingStrategy":"validation","validationCode":"if (!process.env.ASSISTANTS_API_KEY && !userValues?.apiKey) {\n  throw new Error('Server is missing ASSISTANTS_API_KEY');\n}","typeGuard":"function hasAssistantsKey(env, userValues) {\n  return Boolean(env?.ASSISTANTS_API_KEY || userValues?.apiKey);\n}","tryCatchPattern":"try { await initialize(req, res, version); }\ncatch (e) { if (/API key not provided/.test(e.message)) return res.status(500).json({ error: 'Server misconfigured: ASSISTANTS_API_KEY missing' }); throw e; }","preventionTips":["Set ASSISTANTS_API_KEY in .env and verify it loads at startup.","Add a startup health check that fails fast if the key is absent.","Keep the variable name consistent with the loader."],"tags":["assistants","api-key","configuration","environment","openai"],"backgroundTag":null,"analyzedSha":"5ff282f9006c436e561de1afd39a481bea1ef0d8","analyzedAt":"2026-08-12T21:38:08.145Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-08-12T23:17:12.415Z"}