deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · ManualCompactionError

cancelled

cancelled

Error message

manual compaction was cancelled

What it means

Error "manual compaction was cancelled" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/compaction/compaction-basic/src/index.ts:403

          return await compactSurfaceRegion(
            this.regionDependencies(),
            agent.session,
            range.start,
            range.end,
            agent,
            {
              owner: null,
              stability: 'selected-span',
              ...sourceCommandId === undefined ? {} : { sourceCommandId },
              flush: async () => {
                await this.ctx.sessions.flush(agent.session)
              },
            },
            operationSignal,
          )
        } catch (error: unknown) {
          if (agentSignal.aborted && operationSignal.reason === agentSignal.reason) {
            throw new ManualCompactionError(
              'cancelled',
              'manual compaction was cancelled',
              { cause: error },
            )
          }
          operationSignal.throwIfAborted()
          throw error
        }
      })
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      throw new ManualCompactionError(
        'busy',
        'manual compaction requires an idle agent with no waking queued work',
        { cause: error },
      )
    }
  }

View on GitHub (pinned to b150a551b8)

Solutions

1. Re-run manual compaction without cancelling it.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/compaction/compaction-basic/src/index.ts:403 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/73b24cb597a4e0a7. Report an issue: GitHub.