deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error

schedule: idle wait failed for agent "${this.agent.id}": ${r

Error message

schedule: idle wait failed for agent "${this.agent.id}": ${renderThrown(error)}

What it means

Error "schedule: idle wait failed for agent "${this.agent.id}": ${renderThrown(error)}" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/schedule/schedule/src/runtime.ts:199

      this.timer = undefined
      this.requestDrive()
    }, delay)
  }

  /** Await one public idle boundary without holding admission or creating a retry timer. */
  private waitForIdle(): void {
    if (this.idleWait !== undefined) return
    const wait = Promise.race([this.agent.whenIdle(), this.stop.promise])
    this.idleWait = wait
    void wait.then(
      () => {
        this.idleWait = undefined
        this.requestDrive()
      },
      (error: unknown) => {
        this.idleWait = undefined
        if (this.isLive()) {
          this.ctx.logger.warn(`schedule: idle wait failed for agent "${this.agent.id}": ${renderThrown(error)}`)
        }
      },
    )
  }

  /** Fold the current exact runtime suffix and contain a corrupt durable stream. */
  private readFolded(): FoldedSchedules | undefined {
    try {
      return foldScheduleEvents(
        this.agent.session.events,
        this.agent.session.header.seedLength ?? 0,
      )
    } catch (error: unknown) {
      this.faulted = true
      const detail = error instanceof ScheduleLogError ? error.message : renderThrown(error)
      this.ctx.logger.warn(`schedule: corrupt schedule log for agent "${this.agent.id}": ${detail}`)
      return undefined
    }

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Solutions

1. Inspect the embedded error from the idle wait and fix the scheduling environment; the runtime will keep running otherwise.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/schedule/schedule/src/runtime.ts:199 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/6b813e3e90037143. Report an issue: GitHub.