Chat window works, but IPython magics do not

[sg-s]

Description

I installed jupyter, jupyterai and langchain-openai in a clean environment (using pixi). I entered my openAI api key and the chat window seems to work. however, using the %%ai magic in the notebook doesn't work

Reproduce

screenshot showing that the chat window works

screenshot showing that it knows about my openAI key:

error:

AuthenticationError: Error code: 401 - {'error': {'message': 'Incorrect API key provided: sk-QoS0U***************************************KCxR. You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.', 'type': 'invalid_request_error', 'param': None, 'code': 'invalid_api_key'}}

Expected behavior

it to not throw an authenticationerror

Context

jupyter = ">=1.1.1,<2"
jupyterlab = ">=4.2.5,<5"
jupyter-ai = ">=2.28.1,<3"
langchain-openai = ">=0.1.25,<0.2"

[sg-s]

i found workaround: i had to manually specify my key in the notebook using:

env OPENAI_API_KEY = <my key>

the clue was that

'Incorrect API key provided: sk-QoS0U***************************************KCxR.

is not my key

no idea why it decides to use some randomn key instead of the one i entered in the notebook

[dlqqq]

@sg-s Jupyter AI magic commands can't read API keys from the chat settings in the UI. They only read from the set of environment variables. This is a known issue, and is due to a technical difficulty with passing data between the notebook kernel and the server.

What likely happened is that OPENAI_API_KEY was set to an outdated API key or an incomplete API key (e.g. perhaps you only copied the first 30 characters of the API key).

If you want to use both chat & magics simultaneously, we recommend setting the API key with both the environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY and through the chat settings for now.

This is definitely a usability issue that we should address in v3.0.0. I'll add it to our roadmap.

[sg-s]

thanks for the response!