fix: stop a cleared Team field from blocking personal key creation

Clearing the Team combobox in the Create Key modal left team_id set to an
empty string, so /key/generate treated the request as team key generation
and failed with a team-not-found error for non-admin members.

TeamDropdown now emits null on clear, and GenerateKeyRequest normalizes an
empty team_id to None so the request runs the personal key path.

litellm/proxy/_types.py

@@ -1216,6 +1216,13 @@ class GenerateKeyRequest(KeyRequestBase):
     organization_id: str | None = None
     project_id: str | None = None
 
+    @field_validator("team_id", mode="before")
+    @classmethod
+    def treat_cleared_team_id_as_unset(cls, v: object) -> object:
+        if v == "":
+            return None
+        return v
+
 
 class GenerateKeyResponse(KeyRequestBase):
     key: str

tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_key_management_endpoints.py

@@ -17489,3 +17489,49 @@ async def test_check_project_key_limits_still_rejects_real_model_outside_project
 
     assert exc_info.value.status_code == 400
     assert "Model 'gpt-5.4-mini' not in project's allowed models" in exc_info.value.detail["error"]
+
+
+def test_generate_key_request_blank_team_id_is_personal():
+    """The UI Team-field clear submits team_id=""; it must count as no team (LIT-3925)."""
+    from litellm.proxy._types import RegenerateKeyRequest
+    from litellm.proxy.management_endpoints.key_management_endpoints import (
+        _is_team_key,
+    )
+
+    cleared = GenerateKeyRequest(team_id="")
+    assert cleared.team_id is None
+    assert _is_team_key(data=cleared) is False
+    assert RegenerateKeyRequest(team_id="").team_id is None
+    assert GenerateKeyRequest(team_id="team-1").team_id == "team-1"
+
+
+def test_key_generation_check_blank_team_id_uses_personal_permissions(monkeypatch):
+    """key_generation_check with team_id="" must take the personal-key path instead
+    of failing the team lookup with "Unable to find team object" (LIT-3925)."""
+    from litellm.proxy._types import KeyManagementRoutes
+    from litellm.proxy.management_endpoints.key_management_endpoints import (
+        key_generation_check,
+    )
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm,
+        "key_generation_settings",
+        {
+            "team_key_generation": {"allowed_team_member_roles": ["admin"]},
+            "personal_key_generation": {"allowed_user_roles": ["proxy_admin", "internal_user"]},
+        },
+    )
+
+    assert (
+        key_generation_check(
+            team_table=None,
+            user_api_key_dict=UserAPIKeyAuth(
+                user_role=LitellmUserRoles.INTERNAL_USER,
+                api_key="sk-alice",
+                user_id="alice",
+            ),
+            data=GenerateKeyRequest(key_alias="personal", team_id=""),
+            route=KeyManagementRoutes.KEY_GENERATE,
+        )
+        is True
+    )

ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/common_components/team_dropdown.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import { render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import userEvent from "@testing-library/user-event";
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { chooseSelectOption } from "../../../tests/test-utils";
+import type { Team } from "../key_team_helpers/key_list";
+import TeamDropdown from "./team_dropdown";
+
+const TEAMS = [
+  { team_id: "team-1", team_alias: "Alpha Team" },
+  { team_id: "team-2", team_alias: "Beta Team" },
+] as unknown as Team[];
+
+vi.mock("@/app/(dashboard)/hooks/teams/useTeams", () => ({
+  useInfiniteTeams: () => ({
+    data: { pages: [{ teams: TEAMS }] },
+    fetchNextPage: vi.fn(),
+    hasNextPage: false,
+    isFetchingNextPage: false,
+    isLoading: false,
+  }),
+}));
+
+describe("TeamDropdown", () => {
+  it("emits the picked team's id and full object", async () => {
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
+    const onChange = vi.fn();
+    const onTeamSelect = vi.fn();
+    render(<TeamDropdown onChange={onChange} onTeamSelect={onTeamSelect} />);
+
+    await chooseSelectOption(user, screen.getByRole("combobox"), /^Beta Team/);
+
+    expect(onChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith("team-2");
+    expect(onTeamSelect).toHaveBeenCalledWith(TEAMS[1]);
+  });
+
+  it("emits null, never the empty string, when the selection is cleared", async () => {
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
+    const onChange = vi.fn();
+    const onTeamSelect = vi.fn();
+    render(<TeamDropdown value="team-1" onChange={onChange} onTeamSelect={onTeamSelect} />);
+
+    await user.click(document.querySelector('[data-slot="combobox-clear"]') as HTMLElement);
+
+    expect(onChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith(null);
+    expect(onTeamSelect).toHaveBeenCalledWith(null);
+  });
+});

ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/common_components/team_dropdown.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { Team } from "../key_team_helpers/key_list";
 
 interface TeamDropdownProps {
   value?: string;
-  onChange?: (value: string) => void;
+  onChange?: (value: string | null) => void;
   /** Callback with the full Team object (or null on clear). */
   onTeamSelect?: (team: Team | null) => void;
   disabled?: boolean;
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ const TeamDropdown: React.FC<TeamDropdownProps> = ({
   }, [data]);
 
   const handleChange = (teamId: string) => {
-    onChange?.(teamId);
+    onChange?.(teamId || null);
     if (onTeamSelect) {
       onTeamSelect(teamId ? teams.find((t) => t.team_id === teamId) ?? null : null);
     }