API Key probelm

[Nikhil072345]

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Related Issues

Based on the title, here are potentially related API key issues:

Authentication/Invalid API Key Issues:

• Deepseek 401 Authentication Fails, Your api key: ****a205 is invalid #9378 - Deepseek 401 Authentication Fails, Your api key: ****a205 is invalid
• API key not valid. Please pass a valid API key. #8516 - API key not valid. Please pass a valid API key.
• API issue not showing valid #9339 - API issue not showing valid
• "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY #8890 - "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

401 Authentication Errors:

• Error: Claude Sonnet - 401 #9399 - Error: Claude Sonnet - 401
• Error: GPT-5 - 401 #9358 - Error: GPT-5 - 401
• Error: GPT-5 - 401 #9177 - Error: GPT-5 - 401
• Error: Codestral - 401oLj3U0wrqPlmP4zBJvKXjDJIxZxxKgHo #9316 - Error: Codestral - 401oLj3U0wrqPlmP4zBJvKXjDJIxZxxKgHo

Feature Requests:

• Feature Request: Secure API Key Storage for LLM Models #4643 - Feature Request: Secure API Key Storage for LLM Models
• Add Support for Fetching API Keys from 1Password #3959 - Add Support for Fetching API Keys from 1Password
• storing api keys in plain text #1729 - storing api keys in plain text

Documentation:

• PLEASE, PLEASE actually DESCRIBE how to use environment variables to pass in an api key to, say, OpenAI tools #9081 - PLEASE, PLEASE actually DESCRIBE how to use environment variables to pass in an api key