# when a call fails One line under an amber error label, in plain words, never the provider's json, with the way out on the line below where there is one. url: https://getwh.dev/docs/cli/errors ``` provider rejected the key set GROQ_API_KEY to a valid key your groq key is out of credit top up at console.groq.com/settings/billing, or use another key your openai key hit its spend limit raise it at platform.openai.com/..., or use another key provider rate limit, try again in 12s provider rate limit, try again in a moment provider daily limit reached, resets in 3h 12m provider daily limit reached, resets tomorrow the diff is too big for gpt-5.6-terra: 17842 tokens, limit 8192 try fewer commits, a narrower range, or WH_MODEL with a larger context provider has no model gpt-6 wh models lists the ones the provider offers provider has no models endpoint provider is overloaded, try again in a moment provider returned no text provider error: could not reach api.groq.com lost the connection to api.groq.com ``` The `set to a valid key` hint names the variable of the active provider; ollama has no key, so it has no hint. `try again in a moment` and `resets tomorrow` are the wording when the provider does not say how long. The `too big` line always carries its hint. `could not reach` is followed by curl's last stderr line with the `curl: (N)` prefix removed; `lost the connection` means the stream was cut after text had already arrived. A call never hangs: curl gives up on a provider that cannot be reached within 15 seconds, or that sends nothing for 5 minutes. There is no limit on the whole answer, so a long one streams to the end. A stall before any text reads `could not reach`, one after text reads `lost the connection`. `provider has no models endpoint` is its own line on purpose: a 404 on the models path means the base url is a gateway that only proxies chat, never that the model is missing. A few failures are not the provider's: `not a git repository` when you are outside one, `curl not found` when there is no curl on the path, and `provider sent no reply` or `provider sent no http status` when curl returned nothing usable. ## headroom [#headroom] A key nearly out of headroom (under a tenth of its window left, as reported by the provider) gets an amber warning after the answer: ``` low on groq tokens: 8.2k of 100k left, resets in 42s ``` ## the shared contract [#the-shared-contract] The wording is a shared contract in `shared/prompts/provider.md`: the web terminal says the same things under the same amber `error:` label, so a failure reads the same wherever you ask.