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title: MARKLESS_STATE_CROSS_MODULE_IMPORT
description: "Imported module-scope state is not resumable: 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_STATE_CROSS_MODULE_IMPORT: Cannot import graph state "<importedName>" from "<sourceModule>" into "<filename>".
Module-scope state has no per-request graph ownership. Importing it would compile reads as dead snapshots and writes as plain module mutation instead of connecting to this document payload.
Move the state() call into the component that owns it, or expose request/container/page lifetime data with shared() and import that shared() definition instead.
https://markless.dev/errors/MARKLESS_STATE_CROSS_MODULE_IMPORT
```

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).