{"record":{"id":"ff8808eac20620bb","repo":"warpdotdev/warp","slug":"authentication-failed-err-ff8808","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"Authentication failed: {err:#}","messagePattern":"Authentication failed: (.+?)","errorType":"exception","errorClass":null,"httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"app/src/ai/agent_sdk/mod.rs","lineNumber":1713,"sourceCode":"            AuthManagerEvent::AuthComplete => {\n                dispatched = true;\n                if let Err(err) = dispatch_command(ctx, command.clone(), global_options.clone()) {\n                    report_fatal_error(err, ctx);\n                }\n            }\n            AuthManagerEvent::NeedsReauth => {\n                dispatched = true;\n                let auth_state = AuthStateProvider::handle(ctx).as_ref(ctx).get();\n                let message = if auth_state.is_api_key_authenticated() {\n                    \"Your API key is invalid. Please provide a valid key via '--api-key' or the WARP_API_KEY environment variable.\".to_string()\n                } else {\n                    format!(\"Your credentials are invalid. Please log in again with `{cli_name} login`.\")\n                };\n                report_fatal_error(anyhow::anyhow!(message), ctx);\n            }\n            AuthManagerEvent::AuthFailed(err) => {\n                dispatched = true;\n                report_fatal_error(anyhow::anyhow!(\"Authentication failed: {err:#}\"), ctx);\n            }\n            _ => {}\n        }\n    });\n\n    // Trigger authentication - the subscription above will handle the result.\n    AuthManager::handle(ctx).update(ctx, |auth_manager, ctx| match authentication {\n        CommandAuthentication::PendingApiKey(api_key) => {\n            auth_manager.authenticate_api_key(api_key, ctx);\n        }\n        CommandAuthentication::RefreshUser => auth_manager.refresh_user(ctx),\n    });\n}\n\n/// Check if we're running within Warp (for example, if this is an invocation of the Warp CLI\n/// within a Warp terminal session).\npub fn is_running_in_warp() -> bool {\n    std::env::var(\"TERM_PROGRAM\")","sourceCodeStart":1695,"sourceCodeEnd":1731,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blob/e72fd7aacbbb2236d9b3be2aad7e7178fe94b4bc/app/src/ai/agent_sdk/mod.rs#L1695-L1731","documentation":"The auth flow itself failed (AuthFailed(err)) — distinct from NeedsReauth: this wraps transport and server failures such as network errors, 5xx responses, or unexpected auth-server responses from authenticate_api_key or refresh_user. The underlying chain is printed with {err:#}.","triggerScenarios":"An auth-required command when the CLI cannot reach the auth/warp-server endpoints: DNS failure, offline machine, proxy blocking the request, server outage, or a malformed/unexpected server response.","commonSituations":"CI runners with egress restrictions; network flaps; warp-server incidents; TLS-intercepting middleboxes breaking the auth handshake.","solutions":["Verify connectivity to the configured server root URL (curl its health endpoint)","Retry after transient network issues","Check proxy/egress rules allow the warp-server domains","Re-run with verbose logging and read the appended {err} chain to identify the failing hop"],"exampleFix":null,"handlingStrategy":"retry","validationCode":"# Distinguish transport failure from credential rejection before retrying\ncurl -fsS --max-time 10 \"$SERVER_ROOT_URL\" >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo 'server unreachable' >&2; exit 1; }","typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":"out=$(warp agent list 2>&1) || { case \"$out\" in\n  *'Authentication failed:'*) retry_with_backoff warp agent list ;;\n  *'API key is invalid'*|*'credentials are invalid'*) warp login ;;\n  *) echo \"$out\" >&2; exit 1 ;;\nesac; }","preventionTips":["Monitor egress rules so CI runners can always reach warp-server domains","Read the {err} chain in the message to identify the failing hop before retrying","Do not retry blindly on credential errors; only retry transport failures"],"tags":["authentication","network","server-error"],"backgroundTag":null,"analyzedSha":"e72fd7aacbbb2236d9b3be2aad7e7178fe94b4bc","analyzedAt":"2026-08-16T08:27:25.381Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-08-16T13:17:31.715Z"}