deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · LlmError

TRANSPORT

TRANSPORT

Error message

DeepSeek Files API request to ${this.baseURL} failed

What it means

Error "DeepSeek Files API request to ${this.baseURL} failed" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/files-api.ts:154

  constructor(options: FilesApiOptions) {
    this.baseURL = options.baseURL.replace(/\/+$/u, '')
    this.apiKey = options.apiKey
    this.fetchImpl = options.fetch ?? globalThis.fetch
  }

  private async request(path: string, init: RequestInit, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<Response> {
    let response: Response
    try {
      const headers = new Headers(attributionHeaders())
      headers.set('authorization', `Bearer ${this.apiKey}`)
      response = await this.fetchImpl(`${this.baseURL}${path}`, {
        ...init,
        headers,
        ...signal === undefined ? {} : { signal },
      })
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      if (signal?.aborted) throw error
      throw new LlmError(`DeepSeek Files API request to ${this.baseURL} failed`, 'TRANSPORT', { cause: error })
    }
    if (response.ok) return response
    let parsed: unknown
    try {
      parsed = await response.json()
    } catch {
      // A status remains sufficient to report the provider failure.
    }
    const { message, detail } = providerErrorDetail(parsed)
    throw new DeepSeekFilesError(
      message ?? `DeepSeek Files API error (HTTP ${response.status})`,
      response.status,
      detail,
    )
  }

  /**
   * Upload one image with an explicit expiry.

View on GitHub (pinned to b150a551b8)

Solutions

1. Check the Files API baseURL and network connectivity, then retry.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/llm/llm-deepseek/src/files-api.ts:154 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/629d1212be0bd896. Report an issue: GitHub.