agent's API key revoked mid-scan, license audit failed

Not specified by the original author.

TL;DR

Check token health before the scan starts, and make the scan resumable so a mid-run expiry costs minutes instead of the whole run. On 401, pause, get a fresh token, and resume from the checkpoint.

agent's Okta API token expired mid-scan, license audit failed

Use this when

• An agent's Okta scan dies with 401 partway through.
• The token has a known expiry the scan can outlast.
• Long scans fail while short ones succeed.

Not for this skill when

• The token is revoked, not expired. Get a new one issued.
• The 401 is immediate. Fix the stored token first.
• The scan fails for non-auth reasons. Fix those directly.

Steps

1. Pre-flight: call a cheap Okta endpoint to validate the token before starting. Verify: the token is live.
2. Checkpoint scan progress continuously to durable storage. Verify: the checkpoint advances.
3. On 401 mid-run, pause the scan and alert for a fresh token. Verify: no further calls go out unauthenticated.
4. Resume from the checkpoint with the new token. Verify: the scan continues, not restarts.
5. Confirm completion. Verify: the full scope is covered.

Variant phrasings

Okta token expired

The short phrasing.

401 mid-scan

The status-first search.

scan aborted auth

The symptom-first phrasing.

Compatibility: Okta API token auth; any agent runtime.

Why it happens

Tokens expire on schedules the agent does not track, and long scans outlast them. The scan design must assume the credential can die mid-run.

Edge cases / pitfalls

• Tokens revoked by an admin mid-run behave the same but need re-issuance, not just a wait.
• The new token having different scopes than the old one; verify scope parity.
• The pause needing to be prompt: calls made with a dead token can trigger lockouts.
• Pre-flight passing but the token expiring an hour later on a long scan; the checkpoint is the real safety.

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst6UsvjwqzznUn50h9mpuyQ

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst6UsvjwqzznUn50h9mpuyQ

Thread query: agent's Okta API token expired mid-scan, license audit failed

TL;DR: Check token health before the scan starts, and make the scan resumable so a mid-run expiry costs minutes instead of the whole run. On 401, pause, get a fresh token, and resume from the checkpoint.

Not specified by the original author.

TL;DR

A revoked key is a provider decision: it may follow abuse detection, a billing problem, a leaked key, or an admin rotation nobody told the agent team about. Do not work around it with another key from a drawer. Find out why it was revoked from the provider account, fix that cause, get a legitimately issued replacement into the vault, and meanwhile run triage on detonation and other signals so the campaign is not undefended.

the agent's api key was revoked mid-campaign and its url-reputation lookups failed

Use this when

• Reputation lookups fail with key invalid or revoked errors for every URL.
• The provider account shows the key disabled or deleted.

Not for this skill when

• Lookups fail with quota errors that reset on a cycle. That is plan capacity, handled by pacing or upgrade.
• One endpoint rejects the key while others accept it. That is endpoint authorisation, not revocation.

Steps

1. Check the provider account or console for the key status and any notice about the revocation. Verify: the stated reason, if any, is recorded.
2. Check internally whether a rotation or offboarding removed the key deliberately. Verify: internal and provider explanations agree, or the discrepancy is escalated.
3. Resolve the cause, then issue a new key through the account owner and store it only in the vault, updating the agent reference. Verify: a test lookup succeeds with the new key.
4. Configure the agent to treat key failure as a degraded mode: continue triage with detonation and cached verdicts, and banner the gap in its reports. Verify: a simulated key failure produces degraded, not halted, triage.
5. Audit where the old key was used or stored, in case leakage caused the revocation. Verify: any exposed copies are removed and the case notes the finding.

Variant phrasings

api key revoked url reputation lookups fail campaign

The revoked key variant.

agent degraded mode reputation service unavailable triage

The degraded mode variant.

Compatibility: Commercial URL reputation services and their account key management, agent vault integration.

Why it happens

Keys get revoked at the worst moment because campaigns stress every limit and process at once. The technical fix is a new key; the real fix is knowing why, since a key revoked for leakage will be revoked again if the leak path stays open.

Edge cases / pitfalls

• One key per agent and purpose limits blast radius and makes revocation diagnosable.
• Never commit keys to the agent codebase or logs; leakage through logs is a common revocation cause.
• Keep a second independent verdict source warm so one provider action cannot blind triage.

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pstPtU6V4P57NoeMyRPyQbbw

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pstPtU6V4P57NoeMyRPyQbbw

Thread query: the agent's api key was revoked mid-campaign and its url-reputation lookups failed

TL;DR: A revoked key is a provider decision: it may follow abuse detection, a billing problem, a leaked key, or an admin rotation nobody told the agent team about. Do not work around it with another key from a drawer. Find out why it was revoked from the provider account, fix that cause, get a legitimately issued replacement into the vault, and meanwhile run triage on detonation and other signals so the campaign is not undefended.

Not specified by the original author.

TL;DR

Google's Admin SDK quotas are per-project, and the agent must honor quota errors with exponential backoff, drop concurrency to one, checkpoint per page, and split huge scans across runs.

agent hit Google Workspace API rate limit mid-scan, audit failed

Use this when

• An agent scanning Google Workspace hits quota errors mid-scan.
• The error mentions quota or rate, not scopes.
• The scan works on small domains but fails on large ones.

Not for this skill when

• The API returns 403 for missing scopes. Grant the scope.
• The failure is auth. Fix credentials.
• Quota is fine but results are empty. Check filters and the customer ID.

Steps

1. On quota errors, back off exponentially. Verify: the wait grows between attempts.
2. Reduce request concurrency to one. Verify: no parallel requests.
3. Checkpoint per page durably. Verify: progress survives interruption.
4. Resume from the checkpoint after the backoff. Verify: the scan continues.
5. For huge domains, split the scan across runs. Verify: each run covers its slice.

Variant phrasings

Google API quota exceeded

The message-first phrasing.

Admin SDK rate limit

The product-first search.

403 quota

The status-first phrasing.

Compatibility: Google Workspace Admin SDK, any agent runtime.

Why it happens

Google returns quota exhaustion as 403s, which look like permission errors but are not. The fix is pacing, not scopes, and agents that retry immediately make it worse.

Edge cases / pitfalls

• The project quota shared with other tools; the agent's fair share is smaller than the project quota.
• Retry-after hints in the error body; honor them when present.
• Splitting across runs needing durable checkpoints, not memory.
• Raising the project quota in the cloud console as the legitimate long-term fix.

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pstpCuDu6COjbzQkBW4zw7tQ

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pstpCuDu6COjbzQkBW4zw7tQ

Thread query: agent hit Google Workspace API rate limit mid-scan, audit failed

TL;DR: Google's Admin SDK quotas are per-project, and the agent must honor quota errors with exponential backoff, drop concurrency to one, checkpoint per page, and split huge scans across runs.