deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error

cancelled

cancelled

Error message

subagent prompt was cancelled

What it means

Error "subagent prompt was cancelled" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/host/apiproxy/src/api-proxy.ts:850

  compute: () => SessionProjectionsBlock | undefined,
): SessionProjectionsBlock | undefined {
  try {
    return compute()
  } catch (error) {
    ctx.logger.warn(`subagent.history: projections for "${childSessionId}" failed (serving the page without them): ${String(error)}`)
    return undefined
  }
}

/** Map continuation admission failures without exposing provider details. */
function subagentPromptError(
  request: RpcRequest<{ childSessionId: SessionId }>,
  error: unknown,
  signal: AbortSignal,
): RpcResponse<never> {
  const childSessionId = request.payload.childSessionId
  if (signal.aborted) {
    return err(request, { code: 'cancelled', message: 'subagent prompt was cancelled', details: {} })
  }
  if (error instanceof SubagentError) {
    switch (error.code) {
      case 'NOT_RESUMABLE':
        return err(request, {
          code: 'subagent-not-resumable',
          message: 'subagent cannot be resumed',
          details: { childSessionId },
        })
      case 'UNAUTHORIZED':
        return err(request, {
          code: 'subagent-unauthorized',
          message: 'subagent does not belong to this parent',
          details: { childSessionId },
        })
      case 'DRAINING':
      case 'ACTIVATION_CLOSING':
      case 'CONTINUATION_UNAVAILABLE':

View on GitHub (pinned to b150a551b8)

Solutions

1. Retry the subagent prompt without aborting; check the cancellation source if unintended.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/host/apiproxy/src/api-proxy.ts:850 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/3042b7f3cc41c7b6. Report an issue: GitHub.