Handling Errors When Adding Messages to an Active Run in OpenAI

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I’m encountering an issue when trying to add messages to a thread while a run is active. The error message returned is:

Can’t add messages to thread while a run is active

Even after checking the completed status to obtain an assistant response, this error persists.

What would be a better approach to prevent new messages from being added to threads during active runs? Any suggestions or best practices to handle this scenario more effectively?

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By design, you cannot add messages to an ongoing thread in the middle of a run. Maybe wait for the Run to finish before appending the message and then starting a new run.

If you capture the thread’s ID, you can use that persisted thread in another run with the added message

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Can you elaborate the last part?

Becausing Im getting a lot of threads stuck in cancelling state and there is nothing that I can do about it (cant cancel in cancelling state)

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I am using the openai assistant now for more than 6 months, and this evening I have for the first time the exact same problem:
Can’t add messages to thread while a run is active

When trying to manually cancel all 3 runs for that thread, I get:

  • two cannot be cancelled because error': {'message': "Cannot cancel run with status 'completed'."
  • one cannot be cancelled because 'error': {'message': "Cannot cancel run with status 'cancelling'."

I have no indication why my flow would suddenly result in an active run at the moment I try to add a message (was never a problem before) and for now I don’t even find how to fix this ‘state’