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Found two resource files for the same resource + validCandid

Error message

Found two resource files for the same resource + validCandidates

What it means

findResourceFile looks for the resource file of one item among several naming candidates (.json/.yaml, branch-specific variants). When more than one candidate exists on disk the CLI cannot know which one is authoritative, so it refuses instead of silently picking one.

Source

Thrown at cli/src/commands/script/script.ts:283

    candidates.unshift(branchSpecificJSON, branchSpecificYAML);
  }

  const validCandidates = (
    await Promise.all(
      candidates.map((x) => {
        return stat(x)
          .catch(() => undefined)
          .then((x) => x?.isFile())
          .then((e) => {
            return { path: x, file: e };
          });
      })
    )
  )
    .filter((x) => x.file)
    .map((x) => x.path);
  if (validCandidates.length > 1) {
    throw new Error(
      "Found two resource files for the same resource" +
        validCandidates.join(", ")
    );
  }
  if (validCandidates.length < 1) {
    throw new Error(`No resource matching file resource: ${path}.`);
  }
  return validCandidates[0];
}

// The separator is whatever the local filesystem uses, so both are accepted:
// on Windows these paths reach us as `my_script__mod\script.yaml`.
const MODULE_ENTRY_META_RE = /([\\/])script\.(yaml|json|lock)$/;

/**
 * Whether a path is a module folder's own metadata file (`__mod/script.yaml`).
 * `isModuleEntryPoint` already pins the file to `script.*` directly under
 * `__mod/`, so this only narrows it to the metadata extensions: a `script.yaml`

View on GitHub (pinned to e474e8803c)

Solutions

1. Delete or rename one of the duplicate files so only a single resource file remains.
2. If one file is meant for a different git branch, the branch-specific selection already handles it — remove the stray variant.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at cli/src/commands/script/script.ts:283 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of windmill-labs/windmill@e474e8803c (2026-09-03). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a2903c56617317a0. Report an issue: GitHub.