permission denied on resource project agent-facts-nosuch-project-x.

Cloud Firestore (Firebase) REST API · GET /v1/projects/{project}/databases/{database}/documents/{collection}/{document} · HTTP 403 PERMISSION_DENIED

Status: ✅ verified:server:prod · first seen 2026-10-24 · last confirmed 2026-10-27 · 44 confirmations from 2 vantages

A project id that does not exist returns HTTP 403 PERMISSION_DENIED "Permission denied on resource project <id>.", the same status as missing IAM rights, not 404.

What to do

1. No client-side fix known (by design).

Dimensions

env: prod · plan: any · region: any · account_state: service_account

Evidence

Probe af:google-firestore:probe:unknown-project (declarative, source)

Observations: none from reporters yet.

Machine access

curl -s https://apifacts.dev/v0/check \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"target":{"method":"GET","url":"https://firestore.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/databases/{database}/documents/{collection}/{document}"},"error":{"status":403,"body_excerpt":"permission denied on resource project agent-facts-nosuch-project-x."}}'

YAML: facts/google-firestore/unknown-project-403.yaml

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