deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · DirectoryPickerError

directory-create-failed

directory-create-failed

Error message

cannot create under "${path}": not a fully qualified parent path

What it means

Error "cannot create under "${path}": not a fully qualified parent path" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/host/directory-picker-browse/src/index.ts:303

      // A caller that departed between reads and probes stops before the
      // next probe (each probe's own await is raced inside directoryRow).
      signal?.throwIfAborted()
      const row = await directoryRow(target, candidate.name, candidate.isDirectory, candidate.isSymbolicLink, signal)
      if (row === null) continue
      if (entries.length === this.config.maxEntries) {
        truncated = true
        break
      }
      entries.push(row)
    }
    return { path: target, home, crumbs: ancestryCrumbs(target), entries, truncated }
  }

  private async createDirectory(path: string, name: string): Promise<string> {
    // Same fully-qualified fence as list: never rebase a parent under the
    // cwd or the current drive.
    if (!fullyQualified(path)) {
      throw new DirectoryPickerError('directory-create-failed', path, `cannot create under "${path}": not a fully qualified parent path`)
    }
    const parent = resolve(path)
    // The backend owns segment validation (the wire schema also refuses these,
    // but direct service consumers must hit the same fence).
    if (name.trim() === '' || name === '.' || name === '..' || /[/\\]/.test(name)) {
      throw new DirectoryPickerError('directory-create-failed', join(parent, name), `"${name}" is not a single path segment`)
    }
    const target = join(parent, name)
    try {
      // Non-recursive: the parent is the directory the browser is showing, so
      // a missing parent is a real failure, not a level to invent.
      await mkdir(target)
      return target
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      if (typeof error === 'object' && error !== null && 'code' in error && error.code === 'EEXIST') {
        throw new DirectoryPickerError('directory-exists', target, `${target} already exists`)
      }
      throw new DirectoryPickerError('directory-create-failed', target, `cannot create ${target}: ${messageOf(error)}`)

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/host/directory-picker-browse/src/index.ts:303 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/dbb99f53775d363d. Report an issue: GitHub.