deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · TypeError

blockedAfterConsecutiveRounds must be a positive safe intege

Error message

blockedAfterConsecutiveRounds must be a positive safe integer

What it means

Error "blockedAfterConsecutiveRounds must be a positive safe integer" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/goal/tool-goal/src/index.ts:129

/** Render policy guidance with its deployment-selected blocked threshold. */
function guidance(blockedAfter: number): string {
  return 'Use goal tools for one long-running completion objective in the current session. '
    + 'create_goal may infer goal intent from a direct human request in any language; do not '
    + 'create a goal for routine single-turn work. Call get_goal before update_goal and copy its '
    + 'exact goal_id and revision. After session resume or fork, an active goal is disarmed: when '
    + 'a human asks to continue or resume in any wording or language, use update_goal action '
    + 'resume to rearm it. Mark complete only when the objective is actually achieved. Mark '
    + `blocked only after the same blocking condition persists for at least ${blockedAfter} `
    + 'consecutive goal rounds, and report that concrete condition in blocked_reason; difficulty, uncertainty, '
    + 'or useful remaining work is not blocked.'
}

/** Validate config even when apply is called directly outside Loader normalization. */
function resolveConfig(config: Config): ResolvedConfig {
  const blockedAfter = config.blockedAfterConsecutiveRounds ?? 3
  if (!Number.isSafeInteger(blockedAfter) || blockedAfter < 1) {
    throw new TypeError('blockedAfterConsecutiveRounds must be a positive safe integer')
  }
  return { blockedAfterConsecutiveRounds: blockedAfter }
}

/** Whether optional text is meaningful rather than a strict-schema empty filler. */
function hasText(value: string | undefined): value is string {
  return value !== undefined && value !== ''
}

/** Whether an optional round cap is meaningful rather than a strict-schema zero filler. */
function hasRoundCap(value: number | undefined): value is number {
  return value !== undefined && value !== 0
}

/** Build the exact compare-and-set ref from model arguments. */
function goalRef(goalId: string, revision: number): GoalRef {
  if (goalId.length === 0 || goalId !== goalId.trim()
    || !Number.isSafeInteger(revision) || revision < 1) {

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/goal/tool-goal/src/index.ts:129 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/7cc6c5cce8067af4. Report an issue: GitHub.