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Not really an AWS question :slightly_smiling_face: Is the problem occurring when you use _secret_ elsewhere? Or in this code, when you use _stackReferenceToSecretName_?

You've got a type error, and you need to access the value in an Output appropriately. Just need to figure out where.

It is in this code, the type error appears when assigning stackReferenceToSecretName to name.

Great. Can you add the code where you initialize the variable?

```const coreStackRef = new pulumi.StackReference(
  `name/project/${pulumi.getStack()}`
)

const hasuraCredentialsSecretName = coreStackRef.getOutput(
  "hasuraCredentialsSecretKeyName"
)

const hasuraCredentialsSecret = pulumi.output(
  aws.secretsmanager.getSecret(
    {
      name: hasuraCredentialsSecretName,
    },
    { async: true }
  )
)```

It should be something like this:
`const secretInfo: pulumi.Output&lt;GetSecretResult&gt; = stackReferenceToSecretName.apply((secretName) =&gt; aws.secretsmanager.getSecret({ name: secretName });`

The _apply()_ will automatically convert the returned _Promise&lt;GetSecretResult&gt;_ into a _pulumi.Output&lt;GetSecretResult&gt;_ for you.

If the secretValue was created in another stack and you want to use it in this stack, you might find that the _aws.secretsmanager.SecretVersion.get()_ static method helps you avoid a little boilerplate code.