deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error

spill-policy: saveText failed for ${toolName}: ${String(erro

Error message

spill-policy: saveText failed for ${toolName}: ${String(error)}; keeping the inline content

What it means

Error "spill-policy: saveText failed for ${toolName}: ${String(error)}; keeping the inline content" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/spill/spill-policy/src/index.ts:159

    }
    const spillStore = ctx.get('spillStore')
    if (!spillStore) {
      ctx.logger.warn('spill-policy: no ctx.spillStore backend loaded; keeping the inline content')
      return undefined
    }
    const save: SaveTextSpill = {
      owner: { sessionId },
      source: { toolName, callId, label },
      suggestedName: `${toolName}.txt`,
      content: text,
    }
    let ref: SpillRef
    try {
      ref = await spillStore.saveText(save)
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      // Best-effort: a storage failure (permissions, ENOSPC, backend down) must
      // never fail the call or hide the content — keep the original inline.
      ctx.logger.warn(`spill-policy: saveText failed for ${toolName}: ${String(error)}; keeping the inline content`)
      return undefined
    }

    // Reserve the notice's byte cost INSIDE maxInlineBytes so the replacement
    // (preview + blank line + notice) never exceeds the documented cap — a naive
    // preview that spent the whole budget then appended the notice could be
    // larger than the cap, and for a marginally-over result even larger than the
    // original. The reservation uses a notice priced at the worst-case omission
    // count (the full byte total): its digit count bounds the real count's, so
    // the reserved size is a safe upper bound and the final notice is never
    // longer than what we reserved. `\n\n` is the 2-byte join.
    const reserve = Buffer.byteLength(spillNotice({ kind: 'exact', count: totalBytes }, ref), 'utf8') + 2
    const previewBudget = Math.max(0, cap - reserve)
    const { text: previewText, omitted } = preview(text, previewBudget)
    const notice = spillNotice(omitted, ref)
    const replacedText = previewText.length > 0 ? `${previewText}\n\n${notice}` : notice
    // Invariant: the policy NEVER emits a replacement larger than the cap. When
    // the notice alone exceeds maxInlineBytes (a tiny cap or a long spill root),

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Solutions

1. Check that the configured spillStore plugin is loaded and writable and that disk space is available; the inline content is kept, so retry after fixing the store.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/spill/spill-policy/src/index.ts:159 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/802f8879a3363be3. Report an issue: GitHub.