Predictive Routing Campaign Activation Failing with 409 Conflict on Skill Group Assignment

Genesys Cloud Routing
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Trying to understand why our automated provisioning script for predictive routing campaigns is consistently failing during the activation phase. We are building a multi-tenant AppFoundry integration that allows clients to dynamically create and manage outbound campaigns via our custom dashboard. The workflow involves creating the campaign, assigning a skill group, and then setting the status to active.

The creation of the campaign object succeeds with a 201 Created response. However, when we attempt to update the status to active via PATCH /api/v2/outbound/campaigns/{campaignId}, the API returns a 409 Conflict error. The error payload indicates: "message": "Campaign cannot be activated because the assigned skill group does not have any available agents with the required proficiency."

This is perplexing because the skill group in question (outbound_sales_us) has over 50 agents assigned, and manual verification in the Genesys Cloud UI confirms that multiple agents are currently online and available for predictive dialing. Furthermore, these same agents are successfully answering calls in other manually created campaigns using the identical skill group.

We have verified the following:

  • The OAuth token used for the API calls includes the outbound:campaign:write and outbound:campaign:read scopes.
  • The skill group ID passed in the request body matches the UI exactly.
  • Agent status is confirmed as available via the GET /api/v2/analytics/users/{userId}/status endpoint at the time of the API call.
  • There are no restrictions on the skill group configuration that would block predictive routing.

Is there a specific delay or cache propagation issue when assigning agents to skill groups that affects predictive routing validation? Or is there a hidden requirement in the API payload regarding agent proficiency thresholds that is not clearly documented? We are using the Genesys Cloud Platform API v2 and our integration is deployed in the us-east-1 region. Any insights into this discrepancy between UI availability and API validation logic would be greatly appreciated.