deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · Error

unknown job ${id}

Error message

unknown job ${id}

What it means

Error "unknown job ${id}" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/jobs/jobs-local/src/index.ts:347

  /**
   * The completion listeners that own `owner`'s notices: the global layer's
   * first, then each scoped layer along the owner's chain. A listener outside
   * that chain belongs to another composition and must not deliver, or the
   * owner reads one notice per mounted preset.
   * @param owner - the settled job's owner, or undefined for unowned work.
   * @returns the listeners to notify, in registration order per layer.
   */
  private *listenersFor(owner?: Agent): IterableIterator<JobDoneListener> {
    yield* this.layers.global.listeners.values()
    const scope = owner === undefined ? undefined : scopeOf(owner.ctx)
    for (const layer of this.layers.chainLayers(scope)) yield* layer.listeners.values()
  }

  /** Look up a job or fail loud. */
  private expect(id: JobId): TrackedTask {
    const job = this.store.get(id)
    if (job === undefined) throw new Error(`unknown job ${id}`)
    return job
  }

  /**
   * The isolation fence: a job with an owner is reachable only by callers
   * whose session id matches (`!== undefined` semantics — an unowned job is
   * open, and a no-agent caller can never match an owned one).
   */
  private assertAccess(job: TrackedTask, caller?: Agent): void {
    if (job.owner !== undefined && job.owner.id !== caller?.id) {
      throw new Error(`job ${job.id} belongs to another session`)
    }
  }

  /** Project a fresh read-only snapshot from the mutable record. */
  private snapshot(job: TrackedTask): JobSnapshot {
    const ownerSession = job.owner?.id
    return {

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Solutions

1. Use a job id returned by job_start or job_list; the job may already have finished and been reaped.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/jobs/jobs-local/src/index.ts:347 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/d2a11de37de27ced. Report an issue: GitHub.