deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · UserQuestionError

BAD_INTENT

BAD_INTENT

Error message

question ${question.id} declares intent ${intent.kind} whose approve label ${JSON.stringify(intent.approve)} names none of its options

What it means

Error "question ${question.id} declares intent ${intent.kind} whose approve label ${JSON.stringify(intent.approve)} names none of its options" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/interaction/user-questions/src/index.ts:125

      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')
      }
    }
    // A presentation intent asserts two things the types cannot: that the
    // named approve label is one of this question's own options, and that a
    // plan-review carries the plan it is a review of. A UI honouring the
    // intent answers with that label, and shows that detail as the plan, so
    // either gap would put a choice the asker never offered — or an approval of
    // something invisible — in front of the user. Caught at the asker, where
    // the mistake is, rather than in each UI.
    for (const question of request.questions) {
      const intent = question.intent
      if (intent === undefined) continue
      if (!(question.options ?? []).some(option => option.label === intent.approve)) {
        throw new UserQuestionError(
          `question ${question.id} declares intent ${intent.kind} whose approve label `
          + `${JSON.stringify(intent.approve)} names none of its options`,
          'BAD_INTENT')
      }
      if (question.detail === undefined) {
        throw new UserQuestionError(
          `question ${question.id} declares intent ${intent.kind} without the detail it reviews`,
          'BAD_INTENT')
      }
    }
    if (this.provider === undefined) {
      throw new UserQuestionError('no user-questions provider is registered', 'NO_PROVIDER')
    }
    return this.provider.ask(request)
  }
}

export default UserQuestionService

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Solutions

1. Change the intent's approve label so it names one of the question's options, or add a matching option.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/interaction/user-questions/src/index.ts:125 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/4d7f2ccc90d41d14. Report an issue: GitHub.