deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · UserQuestionError

ASK_ABORTED

ASK_ABORTED

Error message

ask_user_question was aborted before the user answered

What it means

Error "ask_user_question was aborted before the user answered" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/interaction/user-questions/src/index.ts:94

  /**
   * Ask the active UI provider and wait for the user's answer.
   *
   * When a caller supplies an agent, human interaction is valid only for the
   * exact live runtime root. Runtime ownership, not durable session lineage,
   * decides this boundary: an owned child has no human answerer and would
   * block forever, while a lineage-bearing session resumed as a new runtime
   * root may ask normally.
   *
   * @param request Questions, owner agent, and abort signal.
   * @returns The answer chosen or typed by the human.
   * @throws {UserQuestionError} code `CALLER_NOT_LIVE` when a supplied
   *   agent is not the registry's exact live instance, or `DELEGATED_CALLER`
   *   when that live agent is owned by another agent.
   */
  async ask(request: AskUserQuestionRequest): Promise<AskUserQuestionAnswer> {
    if (request.signal?.aborted) {
      throw new UserQuestionError('ask_user_question was aborted before the user answered', 'ASK_ABORTED')
    }
    if (request.questions.length === 0) {
      throw new UserQuestionError('ask_user_question requires at least one question', 'EMPTY_QUESTIONS')
    }
    const agent = request.agent
    if (agent !== undefined) {
      const agents = this.ctx.get('agents')
      if (agents === undefined || agents.get(agent.id) !== agent) {
        throw new UserQuestionError(
          'human interaction requires the exact live calling agent when an agent is supplied',
          'CALLER_NOT_LIVE')
      }
      if (!agents.roots().includes(agent)) {
        throw new UserQuestionError(
          'human interaction is unavailable while the calling agent is owned by another live agent; '
          + "include the unresolved question or decision in the child agent's final result",
          'DELEGATED_CALLER')
      }

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Solutions

1. Retry the question; do not abort the turn while an ask_user_question call is pending.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/interaction/user-questions/src/index.ts:94 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness@b150a551b8 (2026-08-24). Data as JSON: /api/errors/2af62c220ecc40ef. Report an issue: GitHub.