Luke
July 22, 2025, 4:36pm
1
Not sure what’s going on but whatever was pushed to the CLI this afternoon has broken something..
Trying to run shopify theme dev and getting this error:
Your development session could not be created because the store password is invalid. Please, retry with a different password.
A few people have reported this over on Slack:
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Can this be looked at urgently because the CLI just isn’t usable. I’m on the latest version (3.82.1)
Luke
July 22, 2025, 4:44pm
2
@gonzaloriestra @Liam-Shopify @KyleG-Shopify @Alan_G
Sorry for the mass tag here but this is fairly urgent. Devs can’t do any work at all with this, many people reporting it.
A github issue has been created too:
opened 03:32PM - 22 Jul 25 UTC
Type: Bug
### Please confirm that you have:
- [x] Searched [existing issues](.) to see if… your issue is a duplicate. (If you’ve found a duplicate issue, feel free to add additional information in a comment on it.)
- [x] Reproduced the issue in [the latest CLI version](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@shopify/cli).
### In which of these areas are you experiencing a problem?
Theme
### Expected behavior
It has all valid password (generated from custom app), store URL, and theme ID, and it was working until a few minutes ago.
### Actual behavior
It says
Your development session could not be created because the store password is invalid.
Even without --password flag it says same error messages - so I thought it is because the store-password is invalid. However when I use same password it works well on the storefront.
### Verbose output
<details>
<summary>Verbose output</summary>
```
2025-07-22T15:26:42.741Z: Sending POST request to URL https://test.myshopify.com/password
With request headers:
- X-Shopify-Shop: test.myshopify.com
- User-Agent: Shopify CLI; v=3.82.1
- Cookie: _shopify_essential=:AZgywUazAAH_sk4ES4Ed4u_KbHX1ryy_o3TL2qfasuIfmiFG55dBD1mBD3e4U08QjSj3C1roRO8Pw63gJTT3_rWHvh5axR413t9suhYccHHWbzGBa_vFjn8zeZTgQcq4xA_HYi5xUj0otEvtzpq0rcwiNr5iIIQfhigyEgkxwT9yqe6JITkeKBAVB_17mg:
2025-07-22T15:26:44.586Z: Request to https://test.myshopify.com/password completed in 1845 ms
With response headers:
- content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
- server-timing: processing;dur=22, db;dur=12, db_async;dur=1.848, asn;desc="20485", edge;desc="FRA", country;desc="RU", pageType;desc="password", servedBy;desc="2ltp", requestID;desc="306c6c57-4bbf-477b-b9df-8d17dfaa3a19-1753198185", _y;desc="df8736ed-244f-4524-9c78-6d9d434086ee", _s;desc="27b0fce2-491c-487a-aaae-658b225b963d", cfRequestDuration;dur=87.000132
- x-request-id: 306c6c57-4bbf-477b-b9df-8d17dfaa3a19-1753198185
2025-07-22T15:26:44.588Z: Failed to obtain storefront_digest cookie.
-Request ID: 306c6c57-4bbf-477b-b9df-8d17dfaa3a19-1753198185
-Body:
╭─ error ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Your development session could not be created because the store password is invalid. Please, │
│ retry with a different password. │
│ │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
```
</details>
### Reproduction steps
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### Operating System
Windows 11
### Shopify CLI version (`shopify --version`)
3.82.1
### Shell
CMD
### Node version (run `node -v` if you're not sure)
v23.11.0
### What language and version are you using in your application?
_No response_
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Hey @Luke could you try login out and back in. It should be working again.
Thanks for flagging this
Luke
July 22, 2025, 5:02pm
4
It’s working again now after logging out and trying again.
Can we please get a post-mortem of what happened here?
It’s really not ideal something we rely on to do development with Shopify to go down
Running into the same issue and have tried everything with no luck. It was working late Friday, and now it’s not. I’ve changed the domain, re-authenticated, updated the password multiple times—nothing helps. Removing the --environment flag gets it working, but then we can’t use a dev theme, which is a pain.
We’re using a shopify.theme.toml file with a Theme Access password so devs can work with proper development themes. Super frustrating, especially since nothing has changed on our end. I also updated to the latest CLI version after seeing the issue—still no fix.
@cory_kelley I let the team know.
@Ludo_Shopify I did logout/login, but I’ll keep trying. Thanks for looking into this!
@Ludo_Shopify Another one of our developers is encountering this error, while I am not. We tested using:
the exact same CLI version
same app config .toml file
same dev store
same command: shopify app dev --theme 1234567890
There is no prompt to enter the store password, it just displays the “store password is invalid message”.
Also tried logging out of CLI, but no luck.
