[deep-report] Add circuit-breaker to Daily Fact About gh-aw (15+ consecutive failures)

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Context

Identified by DeepReport intelligence briefing 2026-05-12 (workflow run §25744758445).

The Agent Performance Report (discussion #31690) reports Daily Fact About gh-aw has experienced 15+ consecutive failures, with 3/3 runs failing in the latest window. Issues #31432 and #31524 are still open and PR #31411 was merged but failures continue. The workflow has no circuit-breaker — it keeps retrying endlessly with zero useful outputs.

Expected Impact

• Stop daily noise from failure issues being filed for the same root cause
• Free up Copilot runner minutes (estimated 3 wasted runs/day × ~minutes per run)
• Force human attention on the underlying parse failure rather than auto-retrying

Suggested Approach

• Add a concurrency.cancel-in-progress: false and a if gate that skips runs when the last N runs were all failures
• Or add a small step early in the workflow that checks recent run history via gh run list and exits cleanly if N consecutive failures detected
• Document the pattern so other long-running daily workflows can adopt it

Suggested Agent

Any coding agent — small focused workflow change in .github/workflows/daily-fact-about-gh-aw.md.

Estimated Effort

~1 hour of agent time.

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Source: DeepReport 2026-05-12 #aw_dr1

Generated by DeepReport - Intelligence Gathering Agent · ● 9.5M · ◷

• expires on May 14, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

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This issue was automatically closed because it expired on 2026-05-14T15:42:26.738Z.

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