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title: MARKLESS_IMPORTED_SYMBOL_CLAIMS_MISSING
description: "Imported child has no published symbol claims: a Markless compiler error."
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**Error** from the compiler, while it builds your `.tsrx` files.

## What happened

Markless prints the message, the reason, and a suggestion:

```text
MARKLESS_IMPORTED_SYMBOL_CLAIMS_MISSING: MARKLESS_IMPORTED_SYMBOL_CLAIMS_MISSING: Parent module <parent> composes imported child <specifier>, whose symbols must be bound by the parent, but the child's symbol claims were not published when the parent linked it.
Linking without the child claims silently drops the parent-bound symbol rows, so the child handlers would not resolve after resume.
This is a linker ordering defect: the child must finish compiling in this environment before its parent links it.
https://markless.dev/errors/MARKLESS_IMPORTED_SYMBOL_CLAIMS_MISSING
```

Words in angle brackets change from case to case.

## How to fix it

Start with the suggestion in the message above.

This page has no guide yet. [Help write it](/contributing/improve-these-docs).

## Where it comes from

`@markless/compiler` raises this code. Source:

- [packages/compiler/src/passes/link/module-link.ts](https://github.com/compiled-run/markless/blob/main/packages/compiler/src/passes/link/module-link.ts)

Read [how to read a Markless error](/tooling/diagnostics), or go back to [all error codes](/errors).