danny-avila/LibreChat · error · Error

Trouble deleting Assistant Actions for Assistant ID: ${assis

Error message

Trouble deleting Assistant Actions for Assistant ID: ${assistant_id}

What it means

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.

Source

Thrown at api/server/services/ActionService.js:505

  }

  return decryptedMetadata;
}

/**
 * Deletes an action and its corresponding assistant.
 * @param {Object} params - The parameters for the function.
 * @param {OpenAIClient} params.req - The Express Request object.
 * @param {string} params.assistant_id - The ID of the assistant.
 */
const deleteAssistantActions = async ({ req, assistant_id }) => {
  try {
    await deleteActions({ assistant_id, user: req.user.id });
    await deleteAssistant({ assistant_id, user: req.user.id });
  } catch (error) {
    const message = 'Trouble deleting Assistant Actions for Assistant ID: ' + assistant_id;
    logger.error(message, error);
    throw new Error(message);
  }
};

module.exports = {
  deleteAssistantActions,
  validateAndUpdateTool,
  legacyDomainEncode,
  createActionTool,
  encryptMetadata,
  decryptMetadata,
  loadActionSets,
  domainParser,
};

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Solutions

1. Retry the deletion after a short delay for transient network/API failures.
2. Verify the OpenAI API key has permission to delete the assistant.
3. Check whether the assistant still exists upstream before retrying (handle 404 idempotently).
4. Inspect the logged underlying error for DB-specific failures.

async function safeDeleteAssistant(assistant_id) {
  try { await openai.beta.assistants.del(assistant_id); return true; }
  catch (e) { if (e.status === 404) return true; throw e; }
}

try { await deleteAssistantActions({ req, assistant_id }); }
catch (e) {
  if (/Trouble deleting/.test(e.message)) { logger.error(e); return res.status(502).json({ error: 'Assistant deletion failed, retry later' }); }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: 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.

Common situations: 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.

Related errors

• invalid_action_error
• [${req.baseUrl}] Invalid version: ${version}
• [${req.baseUrl}] Endpoint is required
• OAuth flow not found
• Failed to authenticate OAuth tool

AI-assisted analysis of danny-avila/LibreChat@5ff282f900 (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/12fb48a4cbbe6e54. Report an issue: GitHub.