deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · Error

${subject} message has invalid content

Error message

${subject} message has invalid content

What it means

Error "${subject} message has invalid content" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/core/session/src/index.ts:327

  const message = type === 'user/message' ? record : record?.['message']
  if (typeof message !== 'object' || message === null
    || typeof (message as Record<string, unknown>)['id'] !== 'string'
    || (message as Record<string, unknown>)['id'] === '') {
    throw new Error(`${subject} lacks an identified message`)
  }
  const messageRecord = message as Record<string, unknown>
  const expectedRole = type === 'assistant/message' ? 'assistant' : 'user'
  if (messageRecord['role'] !== expectedRole) {
    throw new Error(`${subject} message must have role "${expectedRole}"`)
  }
  const source = messageRecord['source']
  if (typeof source !== 'object' || source === null
    || typeof (source as Record<string, unknown>)['kind'] !== 'string'
    || (source as Record<string, unknown>)['kind'] === '') {
    throw new Error(`${subject} message has invalid source`)
  }
  if (!Array.isArray(messageRecord['content'])) {
    throw new Error(`${subject} message has invalid content`)
  }
  const sourceRecord = source as Record<string, unknown>
  if (type === 'assistant/message') {
    if (sourceRecord['kind'] !== 'model' || !hasProviderModel(sourceRecord)) {
      throw new Error(`${subject} message must have model source`)
    }
    return
  }
  if (type !== 'tool/result') return
  if (sourceRecord['kind'] !== 'tool'
    || typeof sourceRecord['callId'] !== 'string'
    || sourceRecord['callId'] === '') {
    throw new Error(`${subject} message must have tool source`)
  }
  const content = messageRecord['content'] as unknown[]
  const block = content[0]
  if (content.length !== 1 || typeof block !== 'object' || block === null
    || (block as Record<string, unknown>)['type'] !== 'tool-result'

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Solutions

1. Fix the content of the subject message to a valid form.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/core/session/src/index.ts:327 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/12b3ef7792a9823b. Report an issue: GitHub.