plandex-ai/plandex · error

no authenticated user

Error message

no authenticated user

What it means

SetAccountCredentials persists the Claude Max account credentials (types.AccountCredentials) to creds.json under the user/org-scoped Plandex home directory. It first requires an authenticated session (auth.Current); if none exists there is no UserId/OrgId to scope the storage path, so it refuses with this error rather than writing credentials to an undefined location.

Source

Thrown at app/cli/lib/model_credentials.go:569

			return false
		}
	}
	return true
}

// emoji for satisfied vs missing
func mark(ok bool) string {
	if ok {
		return "✅"
	}
	return "❌"
}

var cachedAccountCredentials *types.AccountCredentials

func SetAccountCredentials(creds *types.AccountCredentials) error {
	if auth.Current == nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("no authenticated user")
	}
	dir := filepath.Join(fs.HomePlandexDir, auth.Current.UserId, auth.Current.OrgId)
	err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0700)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("error creating account credentials directory: %v", err)
	}
	path := filepath.Join(dir, "creds.json")
	bytes, err := json.MarshalIndent(creds, "", "  ")
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("error marshalling account credentials: %v", err)
	}
	err = os.WriteFile(path, bytes, 0600)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("error writing account credentials: %v", err)
	}

	cachedAccountCredentials = creds

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Solutions

1. Ensure the user is logged in (run the CLI's auth/login command) before triggering Claude Max connect/refresh flows.
2. Check auth.Current for nil before calling SetAccountCredentials.
3. If logged in but auth.Current is nil, re-authenticate to rebuild the session state.

Example fix

// before
err := SetAccountCredentials(creds)
// after
if auth.Current == nil {
    return fmt.Errorf("log in before connecting Claude Max")
}
err := SetAccountCredentials(creds)

if auth.Current == nil {
    return fmt.Errorf("log in before connecting Claude Max")
}

func isLoggedIn() bool { return auth.Current != nil && auth.Current.UserId != "" && auth.Current.OrgId != "" }

if err := SetAccountCredentials(creds); err != nil {
    if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no authenticated user") {
        return fmt.Errorf("session required — run the login command, then retry")
    }
    return err
}

When it happens

Trigger: Any caller (refreshClaudeMaxCredsIfNeeded, DisconnectClaudeMax, connectClaudeMaxOauth, refreshCreds) invokes SetAccountCredentials before login/plan auth has populated auth.Current.

Common situations: Running a refresh at CLI startup after the auth token was cleared; invoking connect/disconnect flows while logged out; a stale or corrupted local session state that left auth.Current nil.

Understand the failure class

• Authentication and authorization failures — expired tokens, bad credentials, and missing scopes.

Related errors

• error getting org session: %v
• error refreshing auth: auth not loaded
• auth.Current.UserId is empty
• no token
• error setting auth cookie: %v

AI-assisted analysis of plandex-ai/plandex@e2d772072e (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/57795459d3cef79c. Report an issue: GitHub.