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federation/external-runtime-provider-missing

  • Category: correctness
  • Default severity: error

Issue

External-runtime remotes cannot start without a federation-wide provider.

How to fix it

Enable provideExternalRuntime on one top-level pure consumer.

Suppress or retarget with rules["federation/external-runtime-provider-missing"] set to "off" or a severity — see Suppressions and allowlists.

Sources