request_external_resource

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Request the USER'S OWN external credential for this project — their OpenAI or Anthropic API key, an external Postgres connection string, or any other service's key (type GENERIC, e.g. Stripe/Resend — name the env vars via secret_env_vars; a var the user can only produce LATER, like a webhook signing secret, goes in optional_env_vars so the dialog doesn't demand it up front). NOT for Floot-managed resources (database/auth/push/oauth/…) — use provision_resource for those; they need no user input. REUSE FIRST: if the project owner already has a matching credential on their account (list_resources section 2), this connects it silently and returns the env var names — no link, no user action, nothing to poll. Pass the name exactly as list_resources shows it to make that happen. Reusing a POSTGRES credential also seeds helpers/db, installs the query stack, and pulls the typed schema helper, so do NOT write those yourself afterwards. Otherwise it returns a secure connect link: SHOW it to the user (UI-capable hosts render a Connect button automatically; on terminal hosts with shell access open it in the user's default browser yourself and paste the URL as plain text) and ask them to open it. The call completes only when the user finishes the connect flow — it never expires. Do NOT block on it: request the credential EARLY, keep building everything that doesn't need the secret (the env var names are known now — reference process.env.X in code before the secret exists), and check the request between tasks; the user may never connect it, and the build must not stall. NEVER ask the user to paste a secret into the chat. On completion you get the env var names — never the secret values. Re-calling with the same type returns the same pending request.