deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · Error

credentials-local: record "${key}" in ${filename} has no pay

Error message

credentials-local: record "${key}" in ${filename} has no payload

What it means

Error "credentials-local: record "${key}" in ${filename} has no payload" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/credentials/credentials-local/src/index.ts:351

  const fields = value as Record<string, unknown>
  const kind = fields['kind']
  if (kind === 'api-key') {
    assertFields(key, fields, ['kind', 'key', 'env'], filename)
    const apiKey = fields['key']
    if (apiKey !== undefined && (typeof apiKey !== 'string' || apiKey.length === 0)) {
      throw new TypeError(`credentials-local: record "${key}" in ${filename} has a non-string or empty key`)
    }
    const env = parseRecordEnv(key, fields['env'], filename)
    return {
      kind: 'api-key',
      ...apiKey === undefined ? {} : { key: apiKey },
      ...env === undefined ? {} : { env },
    }
  }
  if (kind === 'grant') {
    assertFields(key, fields, ['kind', 'payload'], filename)
    if (!('payload' in fields)) {
      throw new Error(`credentials-local: record "${key}" in ${filename} has no payload`)
    }
    assertJsonValue(`record "${key}" payload in ${filename}`, fields['payload'], new Set())
    return { kind: 'grant', payload: fields['payload'] }
  }
  if (kind === undefined) throw new Error(`credentials-local: record "${key}" in ${filename} has no kind`)
  throw new Error(`credentials-local: record "${key}" in ${filename} has unknown kind ${JSON.stringify(kind)}`)
}

/** Reject a field the tag does not define, so a typo is not silently dropped. */
function assertFields(key: string, fields: Record<string, unknown>, allowed: string[], filename: string): void {
  for (const field of Object.keys(fields)) {
    if (!allowed.includes(field)) {
      throw new Error(`credentials-local: record "${key}" in ${filename} has unknown field "${field}"`)
    }
  }
}

/** Admit an api-key record's provider environment: POSIX names over non-empty strings. */

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/credentials/credentials-local/src/index.ts:351 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/00da3a90abc7e66c. Report an issue: GitHub.