deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error

${binName}: profile ${JSON.stringify(name)} does not exist;

Error message

${binName}: profile ${JSON.stringify(name)} does not exist; create it with 'dsh plugin --profile ${name} add <package>'

What it means

Error "${binName}: profile ${JSON.stringify(name)} does not exist; create it with 'dsh plugin --profile ${name} add <package>'" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/boot/app-boot/src/profile.ts:379

 * is a misconfiguration, not "no patches".
 * @param binName - the diagnostic prefix on thrown errors.
 * @param name - the profile name.
 * @param installAnchor - absolute path of the dsh app's package.json (first resolution anchor).
 * @param home - the Harness home; defaults to {@link resolveDshHome}.
 * @param options - `userLayer: false` skips reading `cordis.patch.yml`, so a
 * bundles-only consumer (`--dump-default-config`, a recovery diagnostic)
 * cannot fail on a broken user layer.
 * @returns the loaded profile (empty `patches` when the user layer is skipped).
 */
export function loadProfile(
  binName: string, name: string, installAnchor: string, home: string = resolveDshHome(),
  options: { userLayer?: boolean } = {},
): Profile {
  const dir = resolveProfileDir(name, home)
  if (!existsSync(join(dir, 'package.json'))) {
    const template = PROFILE_TEMPLATES[name]
    if (template === undefined) {
      throw new Error(
        `${binName}: profile ${JSON.stringify(name)} does not exist; create it with 'dsh plugin --profile ${name} add <package>'`,
      )
    }
    initProfile(dir, template)
  }
  const manifest = normalizeShippedProfile(name, dir, readProfileManifest(binName, dir))
  // A hand-written profile manifest may omit the dsh section entirely.
  const bundles = manifest.dsh?.profile?.bundles ?? []
  const layers = bundles.map((packageName): ProfileLayer => {
    const packageDir = resolveBundleDir(binName, packageName, installAnchor, dir)
    const bundleManifest = JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(packageDir, 'package.json'), 'utf8')) as ProfileManifest
    const declared = bundleManifest.dsh?.bundle?.patch
    if (declared === undefined) {
      throw new Error(`${binName}: profile bundle ${JSON.stringify(packageName)} declares no dsh.bundle in its package.json`)
    }
    const patchPath = join(packageDir, declared)
    return { packageName, packageDir, patchPath, patches: loadOverlayPatches(binName, patchPath) }
  })

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Solutions

1. Create the profile with dsh plugin --profile <name> add <package>.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/boot/app-boot/src/profile.ts:379 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/873ff0bd9e855158. Report an issue: GitHub.