sipeed/picoclaw · error

channel %s has no active worker

Error message

channel %s has no active worker

What it means

Error "channel %s has no active worker" thrown in sipeed/picoclaw.

Source

Thrown at pkg/channels/manager.go:2054

// SendMessage sends an outbound message synchronously through the channel
// worker's rate limiter and retry logic. It blocks until the message is
// delivered (or all retries are exhausted), which preserves ordering when
// a subsequent operation depends on the message having been sent.
func (m *Manager) SendMessage(ctx context.Context, msg bus.OutboundMessage) error {
	msg = bus.NormalizeOutboundMessage(msg)
	channelName := outboundMessageChannel(msg)

	m.mu.RLock()
	_, exists := m.channels[channelName]
	w, wExists := m.workers[channelName]
	m.mu.RUnlock()

	if !exists {
		return fmt.Errorf("channel %s not found", channelName)
	}
	if !wExists || w == nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("channel %s has no active worker", channelName)
	}

	maxLen := 0
	if mlp, ok := w.ch.(MessageLengthProvider); ok {
		maxLen = mlp.MaxMessageLength()
	}
	if chunks := splitOutboundMessageContent(msg, maxLen); len(chunks) > 1 {
		for _, chunk := range chunks {
			chunkMsg := msg
			chunkMsg.Content = chunk
			m.sendWithRetry(ctx, channelName, w, chunkMsg)
		}
	} else {
		if len(chunks) == 1 {
			msg.Content = chunks[0]
		}
		m.sendWithRetry(ctx, channelName, w, msg)
	}

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at pkg/channels/manager.go:2054 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of sipeed/picoclaw@49183d7e8d (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/bd16c061ee760a5e. Report an issue: GitHub.