deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · Error

a blocked Ralph report needs a concrete blocker

Error message

a blocked Ralph report needs a concrete blocker

What it means

Error "a blocked Ralph report needs a concrete blocker" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/workflow/tool-ralph/src/index.ts:138

    throw new Error('Ralph round report evidence and nextSteps must contain only non-empty normalized strings')
  }
  if (typeof report.blocker !== 'string' || report.blocker !== report.blocker.trim()) {
    throw new Error('Ralph round report blocker must be a normalized string')
  }
  switch (report.status) {
    case 'continue':
      if (report.nextSteps.length === 0 || report.blocker !== '') {
        throw new Error('a continuing Ralph report needs nextSteps and an empty blocker')
      }
      break
    case 'complete':
      if (report.evidence.length === 0 || report.nextSteps.length !== 0 || report.blocker !== '') {
        throw new Error('a complete Ralph report needs evidence, no nextSteps, and an empty blocker')
      }
      break
    case 'blocked':
      if (!normalizedText(report.blocker)) {
        throw new Error('a blocked Ralph report needs a concrete blocker')
      }
      break
    default:
      throw new Error('Ralph round report status is invalid')
  }
  const serialized = JSON.stringify(report)
  if (serialized.length > args.maxHandoffChars) {
    throw new Error('Ralph round report exceeds maxHandoffChars (' + serialized.length + ' > ' + args.maxHandoffChars + ')')
  }
  return report
}

let previous
phase('Fresh-agent rounds')
for (let round = 1; round <= args.maxRounds; round += 1) {
  const prior = previous === undefined ? '(none — this is the first round)' : JSON.stringify(previous)
  const prompt = [
    'You are one fresh worker in a foreground Ralph loop. You receive no parent conversation and no prior child session. Do not call the ralph tool: this round already is its worker.',

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Solutions

1. For a blocked report, require the child to name the concrete blocker in the blocker field instead of an empty string.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/workflow/tool-ralph/src/index.ts:138 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness@b150a551b8 (2026-08-24). Data as JSON: /api/errors/d1933e91a32bd969. Report an issue: GitHub.