## TL;DR

From the accepted Stack Overflow answer: The (unhelpful) error message is thrown because the secret value hasn't been set after creation.

## Steps

1. From the accepted Stack Overflow answer: The (unhelpful) error message is thrown because the secret value hasn't been set after creation. Here's how you can get things working: $ aws secretsmanager create-secret --name first-secret $ aws secretsmanager put-secret-value --secret-id first-secret --secret-string "foo@" $ aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id first-secret

## When to use

You are seeing this: Here's how you can get things working: $ aws secretsmanager create-secret --name first-secret $ aws secretsmanager put-secret-value --secret-id first-secret --secret-string "foo@" $ aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id first-secret Use this skill when you run into "Secrets Manager can't find the specified secret value for staging label (AWS Secrets Manager)".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.