deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error

settings: keeping last good "%s" after invalid stored sectio

Error message

settings: keeping last good "%s" after invalid stored section

What it means

Error "settings: keeping last good "%s" after invalid stored section" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/settings/settings/src/index.ts:677

    // bump below compares what was stored with what now is — an external edit
    // moves the revision exactly like an in-process write.
    const before = new Map<SettingsNamespace, unknown>()
    for (const registration of this.registrations.values()) {
      try {
        before.set(registration.ns, this.section(registration.ns))
      } catch {
        // A malformed stored section is not a readable "before"; treating it
        // as absent still bumps against any well-formed replacement.
        before.set(registration.ns, undefined)
      }
    }
    this.document = doc
    for (const registration of this.registrations.values()) {
      let next: unknown
      try {
        next = deepFreeze(this.resolve(registration.schema, registration.base, this.section(registration.ns), registration.validate))
      } catch (error) {
        this.ctx.logger.warn('settings: keeping last good "%s" after invalid stored section', registration.ns)
        this.ctx.logger.warn(error)
        continue
      }
      this.bumpRevision(registration, before.get(registration.ns), this.section(registration.ns))
      this.commit(registration, next, source)
    }
  }

  /** Read one namespace's raw user section, rejecting non-object sections. */
  private section(ns: SettingsNamespace): Record<string, unknown> | undefined {
    const section = this.document[ns]
    if (section === undefined) return undefined
    if (!isPlainObject(section)) {
      throw new TypeError(`settings section "${ns}" must be an object of keys`)
    }
    return section
  }

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Solutions

1. Fix the invalid stored section in the named settings file; the last good value is kept meanwhile.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/settings/settings/src/index.ts:677 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/772fe139ba5317b2. Report an issue: GitHub.