deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · Error

credentials-local: an empty value cannot be stored for "${re

Error message

credentials-local: an empty value cannot be stored for "${ref}"; use unset

What it means

Error "credentials-local: an empty value cannot be stored for "${ref}"; use unset" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/credentials/credentials-local/src/index.ts:643

  }

  override describe(ref: CredentialRef): Promise<CredentialInfo> {
    // Only the inherited environment is unwritable: it is the one layer this
    // process cannot edit. A user `.env` value is writable in the sense that
    // matters — storing a key replaces it as the effective one.
    if (this.inherited(ref) !== undefined) {
      return Promise.resolve({ configured: true, source: 'env', writable: false })
    }
    const stored = this.values.get(ref)
    if (stored !== undefined) return Promise.resolve({ configured: true, source: 'file', writable: true })
    const fallback = this.dotenvFallback(ref)
    if (fallback !== undefined) return Promise.resolve({ configured: true, source: fallback.source, writable: true })
    return Promise.resolve({ configured: false, writable: true })
  }

  override async set(ref: CredentialRef, value: string): Promise<void> {
    if (value.length === 0) {
      throw new Error(`credentials-local: an empty value cannot be stored for "${ref}"; use unset`)
    }
    await this.write(ref, value)
  }

  override async unset(ref: CredentialRef): Promise<void> {
    await this.write(ref, undefined)
  }

  override readRecord(key: CredentialKey): Promise<CredentialRecord | undefined> {
    return Promise.resolve(this.records.get(key))
  }

  override describeRecord(key: CredentialKey): Promise<CredentialRecordInfo> {
    const stored = this.records.get(key)
    // Presence is the whole fact here: no layer ranks above this document for
    // a record, so nothing can shadow one, and an api-key record carrying
    // neither a key nor environment values is a deliberate statement rather
    // than a blank.

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/credentials/credentials-local/src/index.ts:643 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness@b150a551b8 (2026-08-24). Data as JSON: /api/errors/7a8daaccdc2134a1. Report an issue: GitHub.