paperclipai/paperclip · error

Failed to create environment

Error message

Failed to create environment

What it means

Generic guard in environment create: the INSERT ... RETURNING produced no row for reasons other than the mapped constraint conflicts (name uniqueness and local-driver uniqueness are handled explicitly above). Treats environment creation as failed rather than returning null.

Source

Thrown at server/src/services/environments.ts:1041

          config: input.config ?? {},
          envVars: (input as CreateEnvironment & { envVars?: Record<string, unknown> }).envVars ?? {},
          metadata: input.metadata ?? null,
          createdAt: now,
          updatedAt: now,
        })
        .returning()
        .then((rows) => rows[0] ?? null)
        .catch((error) => {
          if (hasConstraintName(error, "environments_name_idx")) {
            throw conflict(`An environment named "${input.name}" already exists for this instance.`);
          }
          if (hasConstraintName(error, "environments_local_driver_idx")) {
            throw conflict("A local environment already exists for this instance.");
          }
          throw error;
        });
      if (!row) {
        throw new Error("Failed to create environment");
      }
      return toEnvironment(row);
    },

    update: async (
      id: string,
      patch: UpdateEnvironment,
      options?: { db?: EnvironmentWriteDb },
    ): Promise<Environment | null> => {
      const writeDb = options?.db ?? db;
      const values: Partial<typeof environments.$inferInsert> = {
        updatedAt: new Date(),
      };
      if (patch.name !== undefined) values.name = patch.name;
      if (patch.description !== undefined) values.description = patch.description ?? null;
      if (patch.driver !== undefined) values.driver = patch.driver;
      if (patch.status !== undefined) values.status = patch.status;
      if (patch.config !== undefined) values.config = patch.config;

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Solutions

1. Check server logs for the environment creation failure and fix the reported cause (config, driver, quota).

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at server/src/services/environments.ts:1041 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of paperclipai/paperclip@01ad858492 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/04d460cb23dc8700. Report an issue: GitHub.