Your connection needs to be verified before you can proceed

Shopify CLI and Libraries
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I have reproduced the issue on the latest CLI version.

Yes, I am on the latest version

I have searched existing posts and this report is not a duplicate.

Yes, this isn’t a duplicate

In which of these areas are you experiencing a problem?

Theme

Expected behavior

I should be able to develop locally

Actual behavior

I get the “Your connection needs to be verified before you can proceed” message

Reproduction steps

Site specific

Verbose output

• 09:53:55  Synced » update templates/index.context.gb.json
2026-01-27T09:53:55.403Z: → Rendering https://5eab70-80.myshopify.com/?_fd=0&pb=0...
2026-01-27T09:53:55.440Z: Proxy status: 429. Returning render error.
• 09:53:55 Request »    GET 429 / 8ms
2026-01-27T09:53:55.465Z: ← 429 (request_id: null)
2026-01-27T09:53:55.465Z: Render failed for / with 429 (x-request-id: null), trying proxy...
2026-01-27T09:53:55.529Z: Proxy status: 429. Returning render error.
• 09:53:55 Request »    GET 429 / 11ms
2026-01-27T09:53:56.188Z: Request to https://5eab70-80.myshopify.com/admin/api/2026-01/graphql.json completed in 1730 ms
With response headers:
 - content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
 - server-timing: processing;dur=281, verdict_flag_enabled;desc="count=39";dur=3.205, graphql;desc="admin/mutation/other", _y;desc="486de933-8a3b-4388-a674-9e9491618ed6", _s;desc="04496a06-8743-48d9-aafa-6b304633bb84", cfRequestDuration;dur=343.999863
 - x-request-id: 055f7cb9-b9af-4445-972b-1269f9551bf8-1769507635

Operating system

MacOS 15.6 (24G84)

CLI version

3.87.4

Shell

zsh

Nodejs version

v22.18.0

What language and version are you using in your application?

N/A

2

Hi @jon-radiant , I see you are running version 3.87.4. Would you mind upgrading to the latest version (3.89.0) and let me know if you are still experiencing the issue?

3

Issue occurs to me with 3.89.0 as well. It presented itself yesterday and it happens regardless of the cli version used

4

I am also constantly getting this error with 3.89.0

5

If either of you could produce a verbose log that would be super helpful!