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title: MARKLESS_SHARED_SEED_UNRESOLVED_VALUE
description: "a shared() seed value has nothing to bind to: 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_SHARED_SEED_UNRESOLVED_VALUE: The state() seed for "<fieldName>" in shared() definition "<definitionName>" is `<valueSource>`, and "<freeName>" is not a literal, a module-scope declaration of this file, an import, or a global.
A factory seed is re-evaluated in a module of its own, carrying only this file's module scope and imports. A name that is none of those has nothing to bind to there, so the seed throws a ReferenceError and the whole shape loses its fields — which then reads as an error at every consumer of the shape rather than here.
Seed "<fieldName>" with a literal, or with a module-scope `const` of this file that "<freeName>" can resolve to.
https://markless.dev/errors/MARKLESS_SHARED_SEED_UNRESOLVED_VALUE
```

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/semantic-graph/diagnostics.ts](https://github.com/compiled-run/markless/blob/main/packages/compiler/src/passes/semantic-graph/diagnostics.ts)

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