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🌟 Release Highlights

This release focuses on reliability and polish — fixing a cluster of real-world bugs reported by the community while strengthening core workflows around PR creation, model configuration, memory persistence, and the upgrade experience.

✨ What's New

  • Configurable activation token — The on: section now supports github-token and github-app fields, letting you use a custom PAT or GitHub App token for activation-job reactions and status comments. (#19427)
  • Graceful PR-permission fallback — When GitHub Actions lacks permission to create PRs, create_pull_request now opens a fallback issue with a one-click link to open the PR manually, so your pushed branch is never left dangling. (#19466)
  • Strategy schema for custom jobs — The strategy field (with matrix, fail-fast, max-parallel) is now fully usable in custom job definitions, and strategy values are properly extracted by the compiler. (#19405)
  • Workflow call ID in comments — The add_comment action now appends a gh-aw-workflow-call-id marker to comments when a caller workflow ID is present, enabling better cross-workflow traceability. (#19525)
  • Smarter history link types — Generated GitHub search URLs now include a type= parameter scoped to the correct content type (issues, PRs, discussions), reducing irrelevant results. (#19507)

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • gh aw upgrade SHA-pins setup-cli — Upgrade now writes a SHA-pinned reference for the setup-cli action instead of a bare version tag, consistent with all other action references. (#19496)
  • Copilot model path fixed — The fallback model configuration now correctly uses the COPILOT_MODEL environment variable instead of the unsupported --model CLI flag, making org-level model overrides work as expected. (#19509)
  • push_repo_memory retry/backoff — Concurrent agents racing on the repo-memory branch no longer cause non-fast-forward failures; the push step now retries with exponential backoff and a job-level concurrency group. (#19494)
  • ENOENT noise eliminated — Pre-agent failures (sandbox crash, network timeout) no longer cause downstream ENOENT errors from a missing agent-output artifact. Failure issues also now include richer context in their title. (#19505)
  • runtime-import in .github repos — Compiling a workflow inside a repository literally named .github no longer produces duplicated paths like .github/.github/workflows/…. (#19518)
  • safe-inputs script runner fixed — The script: runner for safe inputs was always returning {"stdout":"","stderr":""} instead of actual output; the generated .cjs now correctly calls execute() when run as a subprocess. (#19493)
  • stderr suppressed in non-git directories — get_current_branch.cjs no longer leaks fatal: not a git repository to stderr when invoked outside a git repo. (#19499)
  • MCP audit error clarity — Debug log lines are now filtered from the audit tool error response, so callers see the actual error instead of a wall of internal diagnostics when DEBUG=* is set. (#19506)

📚 Documentation

  • Updated docs for the new on.github-token and on.github-app activation fields. (#19502)
  • trial-ops.md trimmed by 24% — same content, much easier to scan. (#19478)

🌍 Community Contributions

A huge thank you to the community members who reported issues that were resolved in this release:

For complete details, see CHANGELOG.

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What's Changed

  • Fix unusable strategy schema for custom jobs + add compiler extraction (Option B) by @Copilot in #19405
  • [log] Add debug logging to 5 pkg/ files by @github-actions[bot] in #19455
  • create_pull_request: create fallback issue with one-click PR link on permission error by @Copilot in #19466
  • [instructions] Sync github-agentic-workflows.md with v0.40.1 by @github-actions[bot] in #19470
  • [docs] Consolidate developer specs: fix 3 tone issues, bump dev.md to v3.5 by @github-actions[bot] in #19472
  • [docs] docs: unbloat trial-ops.md (24% reduction) by @github-actions[bot] in #19478
  • Add configuration for activation GitHub token by @Copilot in #19427
  • [docs] Update documentation for on.github-token and on.github-app fields from 2026-03-04 by @github-actions[bot] in #19502
  • fix: suppress stderr in get_current_branch.cjs when outside a git repo by @Copilot in #19499
  • refactor: extract common CLI install/build codegen for maintenance workflow run_operation job by @Copilot in #19498
  • fix(conformance): USE-001 standardized error codes + USE-003 staged mode emoji by @Copilot in #19497
  • fix: SHA-pin setup-cli action reference in copilot-setup-steps.yml on upgrade by @Copilot in #19496
  • fix: retry/backoff for push_repo_memory + job-level concurrency group by @Copilot in #19494
  • fix(mcp): filter debug log lines from audit tool error response by @Copilot in #19506
  • Fix safe-inputs script: runner always returning {"stdout":"","stderr":""} by @Copilot in #19493
  • Fix ENOENT noise from unconditional agent-output env var and add pre-agent failure context to issue title by @Copilot in #19505
  • Fix copilot fallback model path to use COPILOT_MODEL env var instead of --model flag by @Copilot in #19509
  • Update history link generation to set type in search query by @Copilot in #19507
  • Fix runtime-import path duplication when repo is named .github by @Copilot in #19518
  • [aw] Updates available by @github-actions[bot] in #19527
  • [WIP] Update generated footer to include gh-aw-workflow-call-id by @Copilot in #19525

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