dagger/dagger · error

workspace has no client ID

Error message

workspace has no client ID

What it means

Guard in withModuleSourceWorkspaceClientContext: host access can only be restored when the workspace is bound to a client (ClientID set) or is a value workspace carrying its own filesystem. A workspace with neither cannot be used where host access is required (e.g. local dependency generation).

Source

Thrown at core/schema/modulesource.go:3461

				return cycle
			}
		}
		return nil
	}
	return visit(src, nil)
}

// withModuleSourceWorkspaceClientContext restores host access when a workspace
// belongs to a client. Value workspaces carry their complete filesystem value
// and therefore need no client context.
func withModuleSourceWorkspaceClientContext(ctx context.Context, workspace *core.Workspace) (context.Context, error) {
	if workspace.ClientID != "" {
		return withWorkspaceClientContext(ctx, workspace)
	}
	if workspace.IsValueWorkspace() {
		return ctx, nil
	}
	return nil, fmt.Errorf("workspace has no client ID")
}

// generateOneLocalDependency generates the single dependency at depPath by
// running only its owning SDK's generator (looked up in owners) against a
// workspace scoped to depPath (as cwd) with the dependency's own transitive
// staging (depStaging) applied and recorded via
// __withGeneratedLocalDependencies, and returns that dependency's changeset. Returns a nil result when no SDK claims the
// dependency, so the caller skips it. Wrapped in a revealed span so the
// per-dependency generation is visible in the trace.
func (s *moduleSourceSchema) generateOneLocalDependency(
	ctx context.Context,
	dag *dagql.Server,
	workspace dagql.ObjectResult[*core.Workspace],
	depPath string,
	depStaging dagql.ObjectResult[*core.Changeset],
	owners map[string]string,
) (_ dagql.ObjectResult[*core.Changeset], rerr error) {
	ctx, span := core.Tracer(ctx).Start(ctx, "generate local dependency: "+depPath)

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Solutions

1. Ensure the workspace originates from a live client session with a client ID
2. Materialize the workspace as a value workspace before this call
3. Check the workspace wasn't constructed outside a client context

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at core/schema/modulesource.go:3461 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of dagger/dagger@82ba2681db (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a881ac08a88a6d59. Report an issue: GitHub.