jackwener/OpenCLI · error · AuthRequiredError

Could not detect a logged-in GitHub account

Error message

Could not detect a logged-in GitHub account

What it means

verifyGithubIdentity runs JavaScript inside the browser page against github.com and reads the octolytics-actor-login meta tag to identify the logged-in user. It throws AuthRequiredError when no username can be detected or the page URL is the /login page, meaning the browser session is not authenticated to GitHub.

Source

Thrown at clis/github/auth.js:21

async function hasGithubSessionCookies(page) {
  const cookies = await page.getCookies({ url: 'https://github.com' });
  const names = new Set(cookies.map(cookie => cookie.name));
  return names.has('user_session') || names.has('dotcom_user') || names.has('logged_in');
}

async function verifyGithubIdentity(page) {
  await page.goto('https://github.com/settings/profile');
  await page.wait(1);
  const identity = await page.evaluate(`() => {
    const meta = (name) => document.querySelector('meta[name="' + name + '"]')?.getAttribute('content') || '';
    const username = meta('octolytics-actor-login');
    const id = meta('octolytics-actor-id');
    const name = document.querySelector('input#user_profile_name')?.value || '';
    return { username, id, name, url: location.href };
  }`);
  if (!identity?.username || /\/login(?:\?|$)/.test(String(identity?.url ?? ''))) {
    throw new AuthRequiredError('github.com', 'Could not detect a logged-in GitHub account');
  }
  return {
    id: identity.id || '',
    username: identity.username,
    name: identity.name || '',
    url: `https://github.com/${identity.username}`,
  };
}

registerSiteAuthCommands({
  site: 'github',
  domain: 'github.com',
  loginUrl: 'https://github.com/login',
  columns: ['id', 'username', 'name', 'url'],
  quickCheck: hasGithubSessionCookies,
  verify: verifyGithubIdentity,
  poll: async (page) => {
    if (!await hasGithubSessionCookies(page)) {

View on GitHub (pinned to 49907e53dc)

Solutions

1. Open the browser session and log into github.com manually, then re-run the command
2. Run the site's login flow (loginUrl https://github.com/login) and wait for the poll/verify to pass
3. Confirm the page being evaluated is actually on github.com (meta tags only exist there)
4. Check that cookies were not cleared between runs; use a persistent browser profile

Example fix

// before
const identity = await verifyGithubIdentity(page); // throws if not logged in
// after
try {
  const identity = await verifyGithubIdentity(page);
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof AuthRequiredError) {
    await page.goto('https://github.com/login'); // let user log in, then retry
    const identity = await verifyGithubIdentity(page);
  } else throw e;
}

const cookies = await page.cookies('https://github.com');
if (!cookies.some(c => c.name.startsWith('logged_in') || c.name === 'user_session')) {
  throw new Error('No GitHub session — log in before running commands');
}

function isGithubIdentity(v) {
  return !!v && typeof v.username === 'string' && v.username.length > 0 && !/\/login(?:\?|$)/.test(String(v.url ?? ''));
}

try {
  const identity = await verifyGithubIdentity(page);
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof AuthRequiredError) {
    await openBrowserTo('https://github.com/login'); // complete login, then retry
  } else throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: The in-page probe returns identity with an empty/undefined username, or identity.url matches /\/[ifornia](?:\?|$)/ (i.e. GitHub redirected to the login page). Happens on any command gated behind GitHub authentication when the browser profile has no active GitHub session.

Common situations: Fresh browser profile / incognito context never logged into GitHub; GitHub session expired and page redirected to /login; probing a page other than github.com so the octolytics meta tags are absent; GitHub serving logged-out variant of the page.

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AI-assisted analysis of jackwener/OpenCLI@49907e53dc (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/2dbd041928658c7b. Report an issue: GitHub.