Bump github/gh-aw from 0.53.5 to 0.73.0

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Bumps github/gh-aw from 0.53.5 to 0.73.0.

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v0.72.1

🌟 Release Highlights

v0.72.1 delivers a new developer-facing lint command, critical compiler correctness fixes, and improved shared workflow ergonomics — all driven largely by community-reported issues.

✨ What's New

• gh aw lint — fast lock-file validation (#30704): New gh aw lint command runs actionlint directly against existing .lock.yml files — no recompile, no extra scanners. Perfect for a lightweight CI gate to catch syntax errors before pushing. Supports --dir, explicit file paths, and optional --shellcheck/--pyflakes checks.

• Import engine.mcp.tool-timeout from shared workflows (#30634): Shared workflows wrapping slow MCP servers (e.g. Repo Mind Light) can now declare engine.mcp.tool-timeout and engine.mcp.session-timeout once, and consumers inherit those values automatically — no more duplicating timeout configs in every consumer. Consumer-declared values still take precedence.

• First-party coding-agent skill for gh aw (#27259): Added a router skill that gives coding agents (Copilot, Claude, etc.) structured guidance on creating, debugging, and updating agentic workflows using the gh aw CLI.

• Shared skip-if-match dedup component: The common "open issue/PR by title prefix" deduplication query is now a shared compiler-imported component, eliminating copy-paste duplication across dozens of workflows.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• && preserved in compiled workflow expressions (#30695): Go's HTML escaping was converting && to \u0026\u0026 inside AWF config JSON embedded in .lock.yml files, corrupting ${{ ... && ... }} expressions and causing workflow parse failures. Fixed by switching to json.Encoder with SetEscapeHTML(false).

• safe-outputs permission regression fixed (#30733): When update-project appeared alongside add-comment/add-labels, the minted App token was incorrectly downgraded to issues:read instead of issues:write, silently failing issue mutations.

• Conclusion comment now reflects safe_outputs failures (#30662): The conclusion job was reporting ✅ success even when safe_outputs failed (e.g., 422 on PR review submission). The job now correctly propagates safe_outputs status.

• Firewall binary version corrected (#30705, #30191): v0.71.1 was referencing a non-existent gh-aw-firewall version, causing 404s on AWF binary install. This release ships with the correct firewall v0.25.29 (which also includes the healthcheck fix).

• Playwright mode: cli recognized by compiler (#30088): gh aw compile now correctly accepts mode: cli in Playwright tool configuration.

• COPILOT_API_KEY dummy key no longer triggers over-billing (#30324): The dummy byok-key placeholder introduced in v0.71 was causing 10–100x premium request over-billing compared to v0.68. Fixed.

@arthurfvives

• Bug: mode: cli for Playwright not recognized during gh aw compile (direct issue)

@bryanchen-d

• feat: lightweight gh aw lint — actionlint-only over existing .lock.yml files (no recompile, no zizmor/poutine) (direct issue)
• Compiler JSON-encodes && to \u0026\u0026 inside ${{ }} expressions in AWF config printf, breaking workflow parse (direct issue)

@haavamoa

• Release new gh-aw CLI version with firewall v0.25.29 (healthcheck fix) (direct issue)

@jonathanpeppers

• Conclusion comment shows success when safe_outputs fails to submit PR review (direct issue)

@lpcox

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Changelog

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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

v0.40.1 - 2026-02-03

Move from githubnext/gh-aw to github/gh-aw

If you were a former user of the githubnext Agentic Workflows you might have to re-register the extension to reflect the new location. As the gh-aw project moved from githubnext to github please delete the old channel and register the new one.

Example:

gh extension list
NAME   REPO              VERSION
gh aw  githubnext/gh-aw  v0.36.0
gh extension upgrade --all
[aw]: already up to date
gh extension remove gh-aw
gh extension install github/gh-aw
✓ Installed extension github/gh-aw
gh extension list
NAME   REPO          VERSION
gh aw  github/gh-aw  v0.40.1

Bug Fixes

Handle 502 Bad Gateway errors in assign_to_agent handler by treating them as success. The cloud gateway may return 502 errors during agent assignment, but the assignment typically succeeds despite the error. The handler now logs 502 errors for troubleshooting but does not fail the workflow.

Add discussion interaction to smoke workflows and serialize the discussion

flag in safe-outputs handler config.

Smoke workflows now select a random discussion and post thematic comments to validate discussion comment functionality. The compiler now emits the "discussion": true flag in GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_HANDLER_CONFIG when a workflow requests discussion output, and lock files include discussions: write permission where applicable.

Add discussion interaction to smoke workflows; compiler now serializes the discussion flag into the safe-outputs handler config so workflows can post comments to discussions. Lock files include discussions: write where applicable.

Smoke workflows pick a random discussion and post a thematic comment (copilot: playful, claude: comic-book, codex: mystical oracle, opencode: space mission). This is a non-breaking tooling/workflow change.

Add discussion interaction to smoke workflows; deprecate the discussion flag and

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Commits

• 4d44d0e [docs] Consolidate developer specifications to v9.3 (#31027)
• 379ceb7 Polish MCP server UX metadata and correct unknown-tool JSON-RPC semantics (#3...
• 7058737 deps: bump default @​playwright/cli from 0.1.11 to 0.1.13 (#31013)
• ce5b7a1 fix(harness): treat "No deferred tool marker" as non-retriable in claude_harn...
• 89b6823 fix(js): use optional chaining for resolvedFieldByName.id in set_issue_field....
• 2a6bc9d Render engine.mcp.tool-timeout as numeric gateway toolTimeout seconds (#3...
• 92b0c3d Enforce pre-API input validation in experiment state loader (SEC-002) (#31002)
• 0c3de77 Emit OTLP export error count on all job conclusion spans (#31004)
• 842a49f Import shared/observability-otlp.md in most agentic workflows (#30995)
• 89855b4 Handle issue_comment PR context in submit_pull_request_review body-only f...
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