Bolt.new Errors: Every Documented Failure and Fix
Bolt errors: token burn, WebContainer boot failures, context limits, vanished projects.
Bolt.new wasting tokens: failed fixes and whole-file rewrites draining your balance
Stop clicking Attempt fix after two or three failures; each attempt reprocesses your whole project and bills tokens whether it wor...
Easy · 10-30 minutesBolt.new project disappeared (or chat history gone, or rollback made it worse)
Do not keep prompting fixes; follow-up 'fix' prompts after a bad rollback have wiped projects. Your project is probably not delete...
Easy · 5-15 minutes'Took longer than 30s to boot': Bolt.new WebContainer won't start (or the preview is blank)
Switch to Chrome or another Chromium browser and retry in an Incognito window; boot failures almost always trace to non-Chromium b...
Moderate · 20-45 minutesBolt.new 'Prompt is too long': hitting the context limit on larger projects
Shrink what Bolt loads into the model: add a .bolt/ignore file excluding tests, docs, and generated assets, delete dead code, spli...
Moderate · 30-60 minutesBolt.new + Supabase: 403 Forbidden, data not saving, or the wrong project connected
A 403 from Supabase in a Bolt app is almost always Row Level Security: the generated policy does not match how the app actually qu...
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