I'm attempting to use stack references in an inline program, whilst using the Automation API to deploy the stack but I'm coming across this error*.* I was able to reference the stack via the Automation API via retrieving a remote workspace and calling

GetOutputsAsync()

then passing those to the config of the inline program, but I'd like to clean things up and make the inline program re-useable with the CLI should I need direct pulumi CLI access. Any ideas what the error might be?

I use stack refs with automation-api, not inline. What do you mean by retrieving a remote workspace? In stack B when I want to reference stack A I create a StackReference so not really using any automation-api constructs.

Yeah that's exactly what I'm doing, but no bueno 😞 Initially, I was using the automation API to retrieve the remote (git) workspace and use the outputs from that for the inline program, but I've changed to using the

StackReference

class (C#)

Most likely this error means that your automation api program captures a resource from program A in a variable, a map, or a class, and then when you try to run an and update on stack B and reference that resource, you get an error because it is not from the current operation and thus the current pulumi state knows nothing about it.