deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error

${binName}: failed to load .env: ${String(error)}

Error message

${binName}: failed to load .env: ${String(error)}

What it means

Error "${binName}: failed to load .env: ${String(error)} " thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/boot/app-boot/src/index.ts:86

  return resolve(dir, replayName)
}

/**
 * Load the optional gitignored `.env` from `dir`. Missing files fall back to the
 * ambient environment; other read failures are reported through `warn`.
 * @param binName - the diagnostic prefix on the warn line.
 * @param dir - the directory whose `.env` to load.
 * @param warn - sink for the one-line misconfiguration diagnostic.
 */
export function loadEnv(
  binName: string, dir: string = process.cwd(),
  warn: (line: string) => void = line => void process.stderr.write(line),
): void {
  try {
    process.loadEnvFile(resolve(dir, '.env'))
  } catch (error) {
    if ((error as NodeJS.ErrnoException | null)?.code !== 'ENOENT') {
      warn(`${binName}: failed to load .env: ${String(error)}\n`)
    }
    // ENOENT (no .env) is fine — rely on the ambient environment.
  }
}

/** Exact names no discovered file may set. */
const BOOTSTRAP_NAMES = new Set([
  // Process launch and module resolution.
  'PATH', 'HOME', 'USERPROFILE', 'SHELL',
  'NODE_OPTIONS', 'NODE_PATH', 'NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS',
  'LD_PRELOAD', 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH', 'LD_AUDIT',
  // Interpreter startup hooks.
  'BASH_ENV', 'ENV', 'SHELLOPTS', 'BASHOPTS',
  'PERL5OPT', 'PERL5LIB', 'PYTHONSTARTUP', 'PYTHONPATH', 'RUBYOPT', 'RUBYLIB',
  'JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS', '_JAVA_OPTIONS', 'JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS',
  'PYTHONHOME',
  // Version-control hooks, config redirects, and ambient command selectors.
  'GIT_SSH', 'GIT_SSH_COMMAND', 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF', 'GIT_PAGER', 'GIT_EDITOR',

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Solutions

1. Fix the .env file syntax or its read permissions so the boot process can load it.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/boot/app-boot/src/index.ts:86 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/9674ab456623092f. Report an issue: GitHub.