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Task Could Not Be Completed: The agent reported that the task could not be performed due to an infrastructure or tool failure.
Reasons:
The Agent Job Health Monitor completed its full analysis (Phases 0-6) successfully, but the create_discussion safe-output was consumed by an earlier throwaway invocation used only to test shell-quoting mechanics in this sandbox (title 'test title', body 'line one/line two/line three'), before the real report was ready to send. The safe-outputs tool enforces a 1-per-run cap on create_discussion, so the real, fully-drafted report below could not be published this run. Please disregard any discussion titled 'test title' created by this run and treat this report_incomplete as the actual output for 2026-08-19. No new issue was warranted this cycle (all Novel failure clusters are single-workflow, single-run, below the 2-workflow/10%-of-runs threshold), so no create_issue call was skipped as a result of this error.
Summary
Warning
Fleet-wide agent-job failure rate more than doubled day-over-day: 9.38% today vs 3.33% yesterday (+6.0pp, not yet over the 10pp hard-regression threshold, but worth watching). The increase is not a broad regression — it is concentrated in a handful of already-tracked chronic offenders, chiefly the Copilot CLI startup-crash cluster covered by P0 issue #54009.
Window: last 24 full hours, 2026-08-18 to 2026-08-19 (UTC)
Total agentic runs: 341 (342 total minus 1 non-agentic Super Linter Report run, which is excluded)
Distinct workflows observed: 116
Agent-job failures: 32, across 23 distinct workflows
Run-weighted fleet failure rate: 32 / 341 = 9.38%
Workflow-weighted median rate: 0.0% (93 of 116 workflows, 80%, had zero agent-job failures)
Workflow-weighted mean rate: ~14% (pulled up by a few low-volume, high-rate workflows, e.g. Code Scanning Fixer 3/3 runs = 100%)
Tracked failures: 29 of 32 (91%), already covered by an open issue
Novel failures: 3 of 32 (9%), no matching open issue, none crosses the 2-workflow / 10%-of-runs bar for a new issue
Top failing step: Execute GitHub Copilot CLI (12 of 32 failures, 37.5%), consistent with #54009's Copilot CLI pre-network crash finding.
Tracked failures (29 of 32)
Ponytail Reviewer x5 (#54009), Design Decision Gate x3 (#53619/#54013), Code Scanning Fixer x3 (#54018), AI Moderator x2 (#54069), and 18 more single-failure workflows each already covered by an open issue (#54085 Daily BYOK Ollama Test, #54087 Daily Go Test Parallelizer, #54083 Duplicate Code Detector, #54070 Daily Cache Strategy Analyzer, #54056 Linter Miner, #54049/#54050 Slide Deck Maintainer, #54021 Architecture Guardian, #54020 Daily Fact, #54019 Daily Malicious Code Scan Agent, #54016 CLI Consistency Checker, #54017 CI Optimization Coach, #54000/#54001 Deep Report, #53421/#53405 Avenger, #54072 aw Failure Investigator, plus PR Sous Chef's recurring auto-filed issues, and Daily Max Ai Credits Test also under #54009).
Novel failure clusters (3, none crossing the issue-creation threshold)
A: daily-experiment-report, Copilot CLI crash matching the #54009 pattern but not yet listed in that issue - run 32230488509. B: Daily Container Image Security Scan, failing step is 'Enforce critical vulnerability and license gates' (a gate/policy check, NOT the Copilot CLI, which succeeded) - run 32220139949 - distinct root cause, needs its own follow-up if it recurs. C: Daily AgentRx Trace Optimizer, genuine Execute Claude Code CLI crash, possibly related to #53935 or #52459 but not confirmed - run 32220130823.
Schedule heartbeat
No confirmed blind spots. Avenger's low run count (7 of ~24 possible) is expected self-throttling (skips when CI passing). Bot Detection and Auto-Triage Issues show zero runs in the logs aggregation tool despite being confirmed active via gh workflow list / gh run list - this is a logs-aggregation coverage gap, not a fleet health issue. Bulk gh api repos/github/gh-aw/actions/workflows failed with a network error twice in this environment, so only the highest-frequency schedule workflows were spot-checked rather than a full sweep of all ~150 schedule-triggered workflows.
Trend
2026-08-18: 300 runs, 10 failures, 3.33%, 8 tracked, 2 novel. 2026-08-19: 341 runs, 32 failures, 9.38%, 29 tracked, 3 novel. +6.05pp day-over-day, below the 10pp hard-regression threshold but the largest single-day jump on record so far.
Fix the logs aggregation tool's coverage gap for Bot Detection (active/successful but absent from the dataset).
No new issue filed this cycle - all clusters are tracked or below the issue-creation bar.
References: run 32249649808 (Ponytail Reviewer, #54009 cluster), run 32230488509 (daily-experiment-report, untracked #54009-pattern instance), run 32220139949 (Daily Container Image Security Scan, distinct gate-check failure).
This is a structured incompletion signal (report_incomplete), not a real task outcome. Any other safe outputs emitted alongside this signal (e.g., comments) describe the failure state, not a completed review or action.
Agent Timed Out: The agent job exceeded the maximum allowed execution time (30 minutes).
To increase the timeout, add or update the timeout-minutes setting in your workflow's frontmatter:
---
timeout-minutes: 40
---
Action Required
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Optimize token consumption
This failure was triggered by a guardrail limit (max-turns / timeout). Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.) to analyze token usage and reduce costs:
Optimize the agentic workflow token consumption using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/optimize.md
The workflow run is at https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/32312306604
Debug with any coding agent
Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.):
Debug the agentic workflow failure using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/debug.md
The failed workflow run is at https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/32312306604
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Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the agentic-workflows prompt.
Workflow Failure
Workflow: Agent Job Health Monitor
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/32312306604
Warning
Task Could Not Be Completed: The agent reported that the task could not be performed due to an infrastructure or tool failure.
Reasons:
The Agent Job Health Monitor completed its full analysis (Phases 0-6) successfully, but the create_discussion safe-output was consumed by an earlier throwaway invocation used only to test shell-quoting mechanics in this sandbox (title 'test title', body 'line one/line two/line three'), before the real report was ready to send. The safe-outputs tool enforces a 1-per-run cap on create_discussion, so the real, fully-drafted report below could not be published this run. Please disregard any discussion titled 'test title' created by this run and treat this report_incomplete as the actual output for 2026-08-19. No new issue was warranted this cycle (all Novel failure clusters are single-workflow, single-run, below the 2-workflow/10%-of-runs threshold), so no create_issue call was skipped as a result of this error.
Summary
Warning
Fleet-wide agent-job failure rate more than doubled day-over-day: 9.38% today vs 3.33% yesterday (+6.0pp, not yet over the 10pp hard-regression threshold, but worth watching). The increase is not a broad regression — it is concentrated in a handful of already-tracked chronic offenders, chiefly the Copilot CLI startup-crash cluster covered by P0 issue #54009.
Top failing step: Execute GitHub Copilot CLI (12 of 32 failures, 37.5%), consistent with #54009's Copilot CLI pre-network crash finding.
Tracked failures (29 of 32)
Ponytail Reviewer x5 (#54009), Design Decision Gate x3 (#53619/#54013), Code Scanning Fixer x3 (#54018), AI Moderator x2 (#54069), and 18 more single-failure workflows each already covered by an open issue (#54085 Daily BYOK Ollama Test, #54087 Daily Go Test Parallelizer, #54083 Duplicate Code Detector, #54070 Daily Cache Strategy Analyzer, #54056 Linter Miner, #54049/#54050 Slide Deck Maintainer, #54021 Architecture Guardian, #54020 Daily Fact, #54019 Daily Malicious Code Scan Agent, #54016 CLI Consistency Checker, #54017 CI Optimization Coach, #54000/#54001 Deep Report, #53421/#53405 Avenger, #54072 aw Failure Investigator, plus PR Sous Chef's recurring auto-filed issues, and Daily Max Ai Credits Test also under #54009).
Novel failure clusters (3, none crossing the issue-creation threshold)
A: daily-experiment-report, Copilot CLI crash matching the #54009 pattern but not yet listed in that issue - run 32230488509. B: Daily Container Image Security Scan, failing step is 'Enforce critical vulnerability and license gates' (a gate/policy check, NOT the Copilot CLI, which succeeded) - run 32220139949 - distinct root cause, needs its own follow-up if it recurs. C: Daily AgentRx Trace Optimizer, genuine Execute Claude Code CLI crash, possibly related to #53935 or #52459 but not confirmed - run 32220130823.
Schedule heartbeat
No confirmed blind spots. Avenger's low run count (7 of ~24 possible) is expected self-throttling (skips when CI passing). Bot Detection and Auto-Triage Issues show zero runs in the logs aggregation tool despite being confirmed active via gh workflow list / gh run list - this is a logs-aggregation coverage gap, not a fleet health issue. Bulk gh api repos/github/gh-aw/actions/workflows failed with a network error twice in this environment, so only the highest-frequency schedule workflows were spot-checked rather than a full sweep of all ~150 schedule-triggered workflows.
Trend
2026-08-18: 300 runs, 10 failures, 3.33%, 8 tracked, 2 novel. 2026-08-19: 341 runs, 32 failures, 9.38%, 29 tracked, 3 novel. +6.05pp day-over-day, below the 10pp hard-regression threshold but the largest single-day jump on record so far.
Recommendations
References: run 32249649808 (Ponytail Reviewer, #54009 cluster), run 32230488509 (daily-experiment-report, untracked #54009-pattern instance), run 32220139949 (Daily Container Image Security Scan, distinct gate-check failure).
This is a structured incompletion signal (
report_incomplete), not a real task outcome. Any other safe outputs emitted alongside this signal (e.g., comments) describe the failure state, not a completed review or action.Agent Timed Out: The agent job exceeded the maximum allowed execution time (30 minutes).
To increase the timeout, add or update the
timeout-minutessetting in your workflow's frontmatter:Action Required
Assign this issue to an agent to debug and fix the issue.
Optimize token consumption
This failure was triggered by a guardrail limit (max-turns / timeout). Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.) to analyze token usage and reduce costs:
Debug with any coding agent
Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.):
Manually invoke the agent
Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the
agentic-workflowsprompt.agentic-workflowsskill from.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.mdor https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.mddebug the agentic workflow agent-job-health failure in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/32312306604Tip
Stop reporting this workflow as a failure
To stop a workflow from creating failure issues, set
report-failure-as-issue: falsein its frontmatter: