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Credential Recovery Rule

Before declaring that a credential, key, URL, or secret is unavailable:

Overview#

Before declaring that a credential, key, URL, or secret is unavailable:

  1. Search transcript-lake for the credential name (e.g. SUPABASE_URL, API_TOKEN, the service name). The user has provided credentials in conversation many times and they are recorded there.
  2. Check every .env, .env.local, config file, and deployment script in the product's repository — credentials are frequently already on disk.
  3. Only after both searches come up empty: report what is missing, cite both search queries used, and ask for the specific value.

Never claim a credential is unavailable without running these two searches. Never route around a missing credential by rebuilding infrastructure or changing architecture.