[Bug]: Cannot provide a custom app access token to --password flag #6415
Description
Please confirm that you have:
- 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.)
- Reproduced the issue in the latest CLI version.
In which of these areas are you experiencing a problem?
Theme
Expected behavior
Provide a custom app access token to authenticate with the store that you want to work on.
To authenticate using an access token, pass the --password flag with each command that you want to run against the store.
Actual behavior
Command shopify theme dev --password shpat_*** exits with error Invalid password. Please generate a new password from the Theme Access app.
Interestingly, CLI authenticates to store without errors when running other CLI commands!?
Verbose output
Verbose output
2025-09-18T20:31:53.271Z: Analytics event sent: {
"command": "theme dev",
"time_start": 1758227512286,
"time_end": 1758227512446,
"total_time": 160,
"success": false,
"cli_version": "3.84.1",
"ruby_version": "",
"node_version": "24.1.0",
"is_employee": false,
"uname": "linux amd64",
"env_ci": false,
"env_plugin_installed_any_custom": false,
"env_plugin_installed_shopify": "[\"@shopify/cli\"]",
"env_shell": "bash",
"env_device_id": "a4998d4a8b9461fdde65077bbe4967d5c64ba448",
"env_cloud": "localhost",
"env_package_manager": "npm",
"env_is_global": true,
"env_auth_method": "none",
"env_is_wsl": false,
"env_build_repository": "Shopify/cli",
"cmd_app_warning_api_key_deprecation_displayed": false,
"cmd_all_timing_network_ms": 0,
"cmd_all_timing_prompts_ms": 0,
"cmd_all_launcher": "unknown",
"cmd_all_topic": "theme",
"cmd_all_plugin": "@shopify/theme",
"cmd_all_force": false,
"cmd_all_verbose": true,
"cmd_all_path_override": true,
"cmd_all_path_override_hash": "43473b8a8b37ed3c2f77ef0ba9648c5dc2692369",
"cmd_all_timing_active_ms": 160,
"cmd_all_exit": "expected_error",
"user_id": "unknown",
"request_ids": [],
"args": "-e development --verbose",
"cmd_all_environment_flags": "{\"store\":\"e864d7.myshopify.com\",\"password\":\"shpat_***\",\"storefront_token\":\"f981****\"}",
"error_message": "Invalid password. Please generate a new password from the Theme Access app.",
"env_plugin_installed_all": "[\"@shopify/cli\"]",
"metadata": "{\"extraPublic\":{},\"extraSensitive\":{}}"
}
Reproduction steps
- Generate access token for custom apps in the Shopify admin
- Pass the access token to
--passwordflag withshopify theme devcommand
Operating System
openSUSE Tumbleweed
Shopify CLI version (shopify --version)
@shopify/cli/3.84.1 linux-x64 node-v24.1.0
Shell
Bash
Node version (run node -v if you're not sure)
v24.1.0
What language and version are you using in your application?
No response