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Failed to backfill standard skills for workspace ${workspace

Error message

Failed to backfill standard skills for workspace ${workspaceId}

What it means

Thrown by the 1.22 workspace upgrade command when validateBuildAndRunLegacyWorkspaceMigration returns 'fail' while backfilling standard skills for a workspace. The command logs the full failure JSON then throws to stop the upgrade for that workspace.

Source

Thrown at packages/twenty-server/src/database/commands/upgrade-version-command/1-22/1-22-workspace-command-1780000002000-backfill-standard-skills.command.ts:110

          allFlatEntityOperationByMetadataName: {
            skill: {
              flatEntityToCreate: skillsToCreate,
              flatEntityToDelete: [],
              flatEntityToUpdate: [],
            },
          },
          workspaceId,
          applicationUniversalIdentifier:
            twentyStandardFlatApplication.universalIdentifier,
        },
      );

    if (validateAndBuildResult.status === 'fail') {
      this.logger.error(
        `Failed to backfill standard skills:\n${JSON.stringify(validateAndBuildResult, null, 2)}`,
      );

      throw new Error(
        `Failed to backfill standard skills for workspace ${workspaceId}`,
      );
    }

    this.logger.log(
      `Successfully created ${skillsToCreate.length} standard skill(s) for workspace ${workspaceId}`,
    );
  }
}

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Solutions

1. Read the logged validateAndBuildResult JSON for the precise rejection.
2. Recompute the workspace cache and retry the command for that workspace.
3. Run --dryRun to preview skillsToCreate and confirm none already exist.
4. Verify the twenty-standard flat application for the workspace matches the build's STANDARD skills constant.

// Dry-run to preview skillsToCreate, and confirm the standard skills constant is non-empty for this build:
await workspaceCacheService.invalidate(workspaceId);
if (STANDARD_SKILLS.length === 0) throw new Error('No standard skills defined in this build; aborting backfill');

try {
  await command.runOnWorkspace({ workspaceId, options });
} catch (err) {
  logger.error(`Standard skills backfill failed for workspace ${workspaceId}`, err);
  failedWorkspaces.push(workspaceId);
}

When it happens

Trigger: Running the 1.22 standard-skills backfill on a workspace whose skill metadata or referenced application flat entities are missing or malformed, causing the migration builder to reject the skillsToCreate batch.

Common situations: Stale workspace cache so standard skill definitions resolve to nothing; skills already partially created in a prior aborted run producing duplicates; twenty-standard-application metadata version mismatch with the installed server build.

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AI-assisted analysis of twentyhq/twenty@1f5dd2bbd2 (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a32e4caff9a089a1. Report an issue: GitHub.