Error messages explained, in plain English
Several of these errors are protection doing its job. The obvious fix is often the one that opens a hole.
You pasted an error into Google and landed here. Each page below explains what the message means, why it shows up in AI-built apps specifically, and how to fix it properly.
How to tell a bug from a guard
A useful test: ask what would happen if the error stopped appearing. If the answer is that an anonymous stranger could then do the thing you were trying to do, the error was protecting you and the fix belongs elsewhere — usually in how your own app authenticates before making the request.
Before you change a policy or a header
- 1Reproduce the failing request while signed out, and note exactly what is refused.
- 2Ask whether a signed-out stranger should be able to do it. Usually the answer is no.
- 3If no, the error is correct — fix the caller, not the rule.
- 4If yes, narrow the rule to that specific case. Never widen it to allow everyone.
I am getting the following error: <paste the exact message> 1. Explain what the error means and which specific rule or check produced it. 2. Tell me whether an anonymous, signed-out user should be able to do what I was attempting. Answer this before proposing a fix. 3. If they should not, fix my calling code so it authenticates properly — do not loosen the rule. 4. If they should, narrow the rule to that exact case. Do NOT disable Row Level Security, do NOT add 'unsafe-inline' to a CSP, do NOT set Access-Control-Allow-Origin to *, and do NOT add upgrade-insecure-requests. If the only way to make the error go away is one of those, tell me that instead of doing it.
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