deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · CodexRunFailure

subagent-codex: Product subagent failure (product: Codex; st

Error message

subagent-codex: Product subagent failure (product: Codex; stage: initialize; category: unknown)

What it means

Error "subagent-codex: Product subagent failure (product: Codex; stage: initialize; category: unknown)" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/subagent/subagent-codex/src/index.ts:90

    if (parentCwd === undefined) {
      throw new Error(
        'subagent-codex: no working directory for the child — delegate from a parent session that has one',
      )
    }
    let cwd: string
    try {
      cwd = resolveChildCwd(
        'subagent-codex',
        undefined,
        parentCwd,
      )
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      if (request.signal.aborted) {
        throw new Error(
          'subagent-codex: request was aborted before app-server startup',
        )
      }
      throw codexStartupFailure(error)
    }
    const spec: CodexRunSpec = {
      cwd,
      permissionMode: this.config.permissionMode,
      env: this.config.env,
      disposeGraceMs: this.config.disposeGraceMs,
      spawn: spawnSpec => this.ctx.subprocess.spawn(spawnSpec),
      onError: (error, stopReason) => {
        this.ctx.logger.warn(
          `subagent-codex "${this.name}": child run failed (${stopReason}): ${error.message}`,
        )
      },
    }
    return startCodexRun(request, spec)
  }
}

/**

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Solutions

1. Check the Codex app-server installation, credentials, and logs; retry after fixing initialization.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/subagent/subagent-codex/src/index.ts:90 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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