deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error

queries must contain at most ${maxQueries} ${noun}

Error message

queries must contain at most ${maxQueries} ${noun}

What it means

Error "queries must contain at most ${maxQueries} ${noun}" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/web/tool-web/src/search.ts:48

/**
 * Validate value constraints the schema DSL can't express: `queries` is
 * non-empty, contains only non-blank strings, and fits the deployment's
 * query-count bound. Exact duplicate strings are collapsed after the bound
 * check. Throws a plain `Error` otherwise.
 *
 * @param args - the schema-validated `web_search` arguments.
 * @param maxQueries - the deployment's upper bound on queries in one call.
 * @returns the accepted queries in their first-occurrence order.
 */
export function parseSearchArgs(
  args: WebSearchArgs,
  maxQueries: number,
): string[] {
  const queries = args.queries
  if (queries.length === 0) throw new Error('queries must contain at least one query')
  if (queries.length > maxQueries) {
    const noun = maxQueries === 1 ? 'query' : 'queries'
    throw new Error(`queries must contain at most ${maxQueries} ${noun}`)
  }
  if (queries.some(query => query.trim().length === 0)) throw new Error('each query must be a non-empty string')
  return [...new Set(queries)]
}

/** Display label for a source: its title, else its hostname. */
function sourceLabel(url: string, title: string | undefined): string {
  if (title !== undefined && title.length > 0) return title
  try {
    return new URL(url).hostname
  } catch {
    // A provider should return a valid URL, but never let a malformed one throw
    // out of pure formatting — fall back to the raw string.
    return url
  }
}

/**

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Solutions

1. Reduce the number of queries to at most the documented maximum.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/web/tool-web/src/search.ts:48 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/ead6907bcb4600d7. Report an issue: GitHub.