From bbe05bd9e4cf380a792d81dc719826ff70b2e045 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vivekvar-dl <domainluther1234@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:13:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(raycast): surface API error details (#1709)

---
 apps/raycast-extension/src/api-error.ts | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 apps/raycast-extension/src/api.ts       | 13 +++++--------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 apps/raycast-extension/src/api-error.ts

diff --git a/apps/raycast-extension/src/api-error.ts b/apps/raycast-extension/src/api-error.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f4b7dd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/raycast-extension/src/api-error.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+export function extractApiErrorMessage(raw: string): string | undefined {
+	const body = raw.trim()
+	if (!body) return undefined
+
+	try {
+		const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(body)
+		if (parsed && typeof parsed === "object") {
+			const error = Reflect.get(parsed, "error")
+			if (typeof error === "string" && error.trim()) return error
+
+			const message = Reflect.get(parsed, "message")
+			if (typeof message === "string" && message.trim()) return message
+		}
+	} catch {
+		return body
+	}
+
+	return undefined
+}
diff --git a/apps/raycast-extension/src/api.ts b/apps/raycast-extension/src/api.ts
index 87899bc3..96ebdde9 100644
--- a/apps/raycast-extension/src/api.ts
+++ b/apps/raycast-extension/src/api.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { getPreferenceValues, showToast, Toast } from "@raycast/api"
+import { extractApiErrorMessage } from "./api-error"
 
 export interface Project {
 	id: string
@@ -101,14 +102,10 @@ async function makeAuthenticatedRequest<T>(
 			}
 
 			let errorMessage = `API request failed: ${response.statusText}`
-			try {
-				const errorBody = (await response.json()) as { message?: string }
-				if (errorBody.message) {
-					errorMessage = errorBody.message
-				}
-			} catch {
-				// Ignore JSON parsing errors, use default message
-			}
+			const responseMessage = extractApiErrorMessage(
+				await response.text().catch(() => ""),
+			)
+			if (responseMessage) errorMessage = responseMessage
 
 			throw new SupermemoryAPIError(errorMessage, response.status)
 		}