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credentials-local: the value for "${key}" in ${filename} is

Error message

credentials-local: the value for "${key}" in ${filename} is empty; remove the key instead

What it means

Error "credentials-local: the value for "${key}" in ${filename} is empty; remove the key instead" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/credentials/credentials-local/src/index.ts:282

  const body = text.split('\n').map(line => (line.length === 0 ? line : `  ${line}`)).join('\n')
  return `version: ${DOCUMENT_VERSION}\nrefs:\n${body}${text.endsWith('\n') ? '' : '\n'}`
}

/** Admit a `refs` section: POSIX-identifier keys over non-empty string values. */
function parseRefs(section: unknown, filename: string): Map<string, string> {
  const entries = new Map<string, string>()
  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(asSection(section, 'refs', filename))) {
    // credentialRef throws on anything that is not a POSIX identifier, which
    // is exactly the constraint a stored reference must satisfy to be
    // addressable through the seam.
    credentialRef(key)
    // The key name is quoted, never the value: a wrong-typed entry is still a
    // secret the user meant to store.
    if (typeof value !== 'string') {
      throw new TypeError(`credentials-local: the value for "${key}" in ${filename} must be a string`)
    }
    if (value.length === 0) {
      throw new Error(`credentials-local: the value for "${key}" in ${filename} is empty; remove the key instead`)
    }
    entries.set(key, value)
  }
  return entries
}

/** Admit a `records` section: `<scope>/<id>` keys over tagged record mappings. */
function parseRecords(section: unknown, filename: string): Map<string, CredentialRecord> {
  const entries = new Map<string, CredentialRecord>()
  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(asSection(section, 'records', filename))) {
    parseCredentialKey(key)
    entries.set(key, parseRecord(key, value, filename))
  }
  return entries
}

/**
 * Refuse an api-key record the read path could not admit, before it is

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/credentials/credentials-local/src/index.ts:282 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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