ruvnet/ruflo · error

MISSING_FIELD

MISSING_FIELD

Error message

Budget configuration is required

What it means

validateBudgets() found the manifest's budgets object missing entirely (null/undefined). Agent-cell manifests must declare a budget block (tokens, memory writes, etc.); its absence is a MISSING_FIELD validation error collected during manifest validation.

Source

Thrown at v3/@claude-flow/guidance/src/manifest-validator.ts:401

      if (policy.preferredLane !== 'native') {
        return policy.preferredLane;
      }
      return 'sandboxed';
    }

    // High risk gets wasm
    return 'wasm';
  }

  /**
   * Validate budget values: no negatives, within sanity limits.
   */
  validateBudgets(budgets: AgentCellManifest['budgets']): ValidationError[] {
    const errors: ValidationError[] = [];

    if (!budgets) {
      errors.push({
        code: 'MISSING_FIELD',
        field: 'budgets',
        message: 'Budget configuration is required',
        severity: 'error',
      });
      return errors;
    }

    const budgetFields: Array<{
      key: keyof typeof budgets;
      max: number;
    }> = [
      { key: 'maxWallClockSeconds', max: MAX_BUDGET_LIMITS.maxWallClockSeconds },
      { key: 'maxToolCalls', max: MAX_BUDGET_LIMITS.maxToolCalls },
      { key: 'maxBytesEgress', max: MAX_BUDGET_LIMITS.maxBytesEgress },
      { key: 'maxTokensInMtok', max: MAX_BUDGET_LIMITS.maxTokensInMtok },
      { key: 'maxTokensOutMtok', max: MAX_BUDGET_LIMITS.maxTokensOutMtok },
      { key: 'maxMemoryWrites', max: MAX_BUDGET_LIMITS.maxMemoryWrites },
    ];

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Solutions

1. Provide all required parameters listed in the message.
2. Validate required fields before dispatch and report the full set of missing fields at once.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at v3/@claude-flow/guidance/src/manifest-validator.ts:401 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of ruvnet/ruflo@fa13ee4ad6 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/6db0cddf59d9a9a9. Report an issue: GitHub.