The self-hosted runner lost communication with the server. Verify the machine is running and has a healthy network connection. Anything in your workflow that terminates the runner process, starves it for CPU/Memory, or blocks its network access can cause this error.

Node.js 20 is deprecated. The following actions target Node.js 20 but are being forced to run on Node.js 24: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-19-deprecation-of-node-20-on-github-actions-runners/