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API key not found for the model

Error message

API key not found for the model

What it means

Error "API key not found for the model" thrown in microsoft/vscode.

Source

Thrown at extensions/copilot/src/extension/byok/vscode-node/geminiNativeProvider.ts:98

	async provideLanguageModelChatResponse(model: ExtendedLanguageModelChatInformation<LanguageModelChatConfiguration>, messages: Array<LanguageModelChatMessage | LanguageModelChatMessage2>, options: ProvideLanguageModelChatResponseOptions, progress: Progress<LanguageModelResponsePart2>, token: CancellationToken): Promise<any> {
		// Restore CapturingToken context if correlation ID was passed through modelOptions.
		// This handles the case where AsyncLocalStorage context was lost crossing VS Code IPC.
		const correlationId = (options as { modelOptions?: OTelModelOptions }).modelOptions?._capturingTokenCorrelationId;
		const capturingToken = correlationId ? retrieveCapturingTokenByCorrelation(correlationId) : undefined;
		const telemetryTurn = (options as { modelOptions?: OTelModelOptions }).modelOptions?._telemetryTurn;

		// Restore OTel trace context to link spans back to the agent trace
		const parentTraceContext = (options as { modelOptions?: OTelModelOptions }).modelOptions?._otelTraceContext ?? undefined;

		// OTel span handle — created outside doRequest, enriched inside with usage data
		let otelSpan: ReturnType<typeof this._otelService.startSpan> | undefined;

		const doRequest = async () => {
			const issuedTime = Date.now();
			const apiKey = model.configuration?.apiKey;
			if (!apiKey) {
				throw new Error('API key not found for the model');
			}

			const client = new GoogleGenAI({ apiKey });
			// Convert the messages from the API format into messages that we can use against Gemini
			const { contents, systemInstruction } = apiMessageToGeminiMessage(messages as LanguageModelChatMessage[]);

			const requestId = generateUuid();
			const pendingLoggedChatRequest = this._requestLogger.logChatRequest(
				'GeminiNativeBYOK',
				{
					model: model.id,
					modelMaxPromptTokens: model.maxInputTokens,
					urlOrRequestMetadata: 'https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com',
				},
				{
					model: model.id,
					messages: geminiMessagesToRawMessagesForLogging(contents, systemInstruction),
					ourRequestId: requestId,

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at extensions/copilot/src/extension/byok/vscode-node/geminiNativeProvider.ts:98 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of microsoft/vscode@a94b963a32 (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/afaf182e7b102d17. Report an issue: GitHub.