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# E-AUTH-008

> Retired: doctor no longer sends a synthetic principal to your actAs seam.

```text retired theme={null}
E-AUTH-008 — retired, doctor no longer emits this code
```

`error_code: E-AUTH-008` · `status: retired`

## What you're seeing

Nothing: `npx vendo doctor` cannot print this code anymore. You are reading
it from an older run's output, or a saved report.

## Why

This warning fired when a configured `actAs` seam declined doctor's
synthetic test principal. Doctor sends no principal now, so the seam is
never asked.

## The fix

Nothing to do for the warning itself. It was usually expected: a
`subject → user` resolver that only mints for real users is right to refuse
a synthetic subject.

What still matters is that the seam accepts your real subjects. Trigger one
real away action and read the dev server log. If the decline names a missing
secret, set it (`AUTH_SECRET`, or the preset's documented variable).

## Related errors

* [E-AUTH-004](/production/troubleshooting/e-auth-004) — a mint that fails instead of declining, also retired
* [E-AUTH-007](/production/troubleshooting/e-auth-007) — no seam configured at all, also retired