Invalid API Request: Empty Message Content Blocking Compaction

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jul 24, 2025 by ozgurozkan123 Closed Aug 19, 2025

Bug Description
Error: Error during compaction: Error: API Error: 400 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error","message":"messages.157: all
messages must have non-empty content except for the optional final assistant message"}}
I received this after I sent a base64 string and some commands

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: pycharm
  • Version: 1.0.57
  • Feedback ID: e6be8b61-10d8-4144-8b2f-86e8136b0047

Errors

[{"error":"Error: Command failed: security find-generic-password -a $USER -w -s \"Claude Code\"\nsecurity: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.\n\n    at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:984:15)\n    at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:538:14)\n    at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:891:11)\n    at execSync (node:child_process:963:15)\n    at D7 (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:841:5854)\n    at file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:753:48942\n    at Q (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:653:14408)\n    at $W (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:753:46653)\n    at rK (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:753:45519)\n    at dB (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:753:51568)","timestamp":"2025-07-22T14:01:16.931Z"},{"error":"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/proc/version'\n    at Module.readFileSync (node:fs:448:20)\n    at Object.readFileSync (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:659:7096)\n    at file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:659:8658\n    at Q (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:653:14408)\n    at __4 (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:753:63371)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","timestamp":"2025-07-22T14:01:17.449Z"},{"error":"Error: 400 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"prompt is too long: 209892 tokens > 200000 maximum\"}}\n    at M4.generate (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1293:6428)\n    at CO.makeStatusError (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1310:2101)\n    at CO.makeRequest (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1310:5315)\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","timestamp":"2025-07-22T14:01:44.690Z"},{"error":"Error: ENOTDIR: not a directory, open '/Users/ozgur/PycharmProjects/audn.ai/.claude/settings.local.json.tmp.17251.1753194771766'\n    at Module.openSync (node:fs:573:18)\n    at Object.writeFileSync (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:659:7456)\n    at R$ (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:734:428)\n    at I3 (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:753:37389)\n    at rJ1 (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:727:2109)\n    at VA1 (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:727:71505)\n    at Object.X [as onChange] (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:2735:22040)\n    at AA.isActive (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:860:21168)\n    at file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:702:1004\n    at A.Q.batchedUpdates (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:67:50776)","timestamp":"2025-07-22T14:32:51.767Z"},{"error":"Error: ENOTDIR: not a directory, open '/Users/ozgur/PycharmProjects/audn.ai/.claude/settings.local.json'\n    at Module.openSync (node:fs:573:18)\n    at Object.writeFileSync (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:659:7456)\n    at R$ (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:734:967)\n    at I3 (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:753:37389)\n    at rJ1 (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:727:2109)\n    at VA1 (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:727:71505)\n    at Object.X [as onChange] (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:2735:22040)\n    at AA.isActive (file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:860:21168)\n    at file:///Users/ozgur/.claude/local/node_mo

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