Handles cloud API credentials expiring mid-sweep for a scanner agent: refresh and resume. Use when sweeps die on credential expiry. Not for invalid credentials.
TL;DR
Sweeps longer than the credential lifetime fail partway. Refresh credentials before expiry, checkpoint per unit of work, and resume with fresh credentials after a failure.
Error
cloud api credentials expired mid-sweep for the scanner agent: auth error
Steps
Confirm expiry versus invalid: the credentials worked at start. Expected: expiry proven.
Refresh credentials proactively before the known expiry. Expected: no mid-sweep death.
Checkpoint each completed repo or unit. Expected: resume skips finished work.
On expiry failure, refresh and resume from the checkpoint. Expected: the sweep completes.
Size credential lifetimes to the sweep or split the sweep to fit. Expected: structural fix.
When to use
Long sweeps dying on credential expiry.
Designing durable scan agents.
When not to use
Credentials invalid from the start.
Rate limiting (different error).
Tool compatibility
Cloud API credentials; checkpointed sweeps.
Variant phrasings
credentials expired mid sweep
Refresh and resume.
sweep died on expired creds
Same handling.
Why it happens
Temporary credentials expire by design; sweeps that outlive them were planned without the lifetime in mind.
Edge cases
Refresh needs the issuing path reachable; plan for outages.
Checkpoints must be durable, not in-memory.
Some credentials cannot be refreshed, only re-issued; handle both.
Provenance
Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pstM5pVKprFO6G6YRhchm8lg
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