client-modules: "${entry.id}" requests module "${name}" that

Error message

client-modules: "${entry.id}" requests module "${name}" that it answers itself — a row must not declare its own package in dsh.client.external

What it means

Error "client-modules: "${entry.id}" requests module "${name}" that it answers itself — a row must not declare its own package in dsh.client.external" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/client/modules/src/index.ts:207

  const rowsById = new Map<string, WebBootEntry>()
  for (const entry of entries) rowsById.set(entry.id, entry)
  const ordered: WebBootEntry[] = []
  const placed = new Set<string>()
  const open: string[] = []
  const visit = (entry: WebBootEntry): void => {
    if (placed.has(entry.id)) return
    const cycleStart = open.indexOf(entry.id)
    if (cycleStart !== -1) {
      throw new Error(
        `client-modules: module graph cycle ${[...open.slice(cycleStart), entry.id].join(' -> ')} `
        + '— a requested package row must precede its consumers, and factory-form CJS cannot deliver partial exports',
      )
    }
    open.push(entry.id)
    for (const name of entry.external ?? []) {
      const dependency = rowsById.get(name) ?? rowsById.get(stripClientSuffix(name))
      if (dependency === entry) {
        throw new Error(
          `client-modules: "${entry.id}" requests module "${name}" that it answers itself `
          + '— a row must not declare its own package in dsh.client.external',
        )
      }
      if (dependency !== undefined) visit(dependency)
    }
    open.pop()
    placed.add(entry.id)
    ordered.push(entry)
  }
  for (const entry of entries) visit(entry)
  return ordered
}

/** Bootstrap package whose ordinary client bundle supplies the module-system implementation. */
const CLIENT_MODULES_ID = '@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-modules'

/** Dynamic package whose ordinary client bundle must be registered before plugin boot starts. */

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Solutions

Remove the self-reference from the row dsh.client.external declaration.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/client/modules/src/index.ts:207 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/01a807a18977528e. Report an issue: GitHub.