🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 13, 2025

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🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 13, 2025

Audit Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours (2025-10-12 to 2025-10-13)
• Runs Analyzed: 10
• Workflows Active: 3 (Agentic Workflow Audit Agent, Changeset Generator, Tidy)
• Success Rate: 100% ✅
• Total Cost: $2.38
• Total Tokens: 3,459,219
• Total Turns: 198
• Issues Found: 1 (medium priority)

📊 Workflow Breakdown

Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

• Runs: 2 (1 completed, 1 in progress)
• Errors Detected: 44
• Warnings: 10
• Missing Tools: 20
• Cost: $0.87
• Status: ✅ All runs successful

Changeset Generator

• Runs: 5 (all completed successfully)
• Errors Detected: 27
• Cost: $1.49
• Status: ✅ All runs successful
• Note: Working on PRs across multiple branches

Tidy

• Runs: 3 (all completed successfully)
• Errors Detected: 0
• Cost: $0.00 (non-AI workflow)
• Status: ✅ All runs successful

🚨 Issues Detected

Issue #1: MCP Status Tool Returns Too Much Data (Medium Priority)

Description: The gh-aw status MCP tool returns 40,657 tokens, which exceeds the maximum allowed token limit of 25,000 tokens.

Impact:

• Causes tool call failures requiring retry with filtering
• Wastes tokens and increases costs
• Slows down workflows that need status information

Affected Workflows:

• Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

Error Message:

MCP tool "status" response (40657 tokens) exceeds maximum allowed tokens (25000). 
Please use pagination, filtering, or limit parameters to reduce the response size.

Recommendation:

• Add default jq filtering to the status tool to return only essential information
• Consider pagination for large status responses
• Add a --summary flag that returns condensed information

🔧 Missing Tools Analysis

Tool Name	Count	Workflows	Status
github-copilot-cli	11	Agentic Workflow Audit Agent	❌ False Positive
permission-restricted-tool	9	Agentic Workflow Audit Agent	❌ False Positive

Assessment: All 20 "missing tool" reports are false positives. These are permission denied error messages from workflow logs being incorrectly parsed as missing tool requests. The affected workflows completed successfully despite these reports.

Root Cause: The error detection pattern is matching log content that contains permission errors, not actual missing tool requests from the agent.

Recommendation: Refine the missing tool detection logic to distinguish between:

1. Actual tool requests that failed due to missing tools
2. Permission errors in log content being analyzed

📈 Error Analysis

Total Errors Detected: 71

Breakdown:

• 44 errors from Agentic Workflow Audit Agent
• 27 errors from Changeset Generator runs (5-8 per run)

Assessment: All errors are false positives 🎉

The errors detected are primarily:

1. JSON JSONL log messages in agent-stdio.log files containing the word "error"
2. Normal agent communication formatted as JSON being flagged as errors
3. Error pattern definitions in GITHUB_AW_ERROR_PATTERNS configuration being detected as actual errors

Example False Positive:

{"type":"user","message":{"role":"user","content":[{"type":"tool_result","content":"..."

These are legitimate agent conversation logs in JSONL format, not actual runtime errors.

Recommendation:

• Improve error detection patterns to exclude:
  • JSONL formatted agent logs from agent-stdio.log
  • JSON messages containing structured error handling code
  • Configuration output showing error patterns
• Add file path exclusions for log files that contain structured data

💰 Performance Metrics

Metric	Value
Average Cost per Run	$0.27
Average Tokens per Run	384,357
Average Turns per Run	22
Highest Cost Workflow	Agentic Workflow Audit Agent ($0.87 per run)
Most Efficient Workflow	Tidy ($0.00 - non-AI)

Cost Trend: Comparing to previous audits from October 12:

• Morning: $2.50 (14 runs) = $0.18/run
• Afternoon: $2.69 (13 runs) = $0.21/run
• Evening: $2.09 (14 runs) = $0.15/run
• Current: $2.38 (10 runs) = $0.24/run ⬆️ (+25% vs evening)

The cost per run has increased slightly, likely due to the Audit Agent's deeper analysis.

📉 Warnings

Total Warnings: 10 (all from Agentic Workflow Audit Agent)

These warnings appear to be related to token usage notifications and are not actionable issues.

🎯 Recommendations

Priority: Medium

1. Fix MCP Status Tool Token Limit
   • Add default jq filtering to return summary information
   • Document required jq filters for common use cases
   • Consider adding a --brief mode

Priority: Low

2. Improve Error Detection Patterns

   • Exclude JSONL log files from error pattern matching
   • Add context-aware matching to distinguish code from errors
   • Document which file patterns should be excluded

3. Refine Missing Tool Detection

   • Update detection logic to ignore permission errors in log content
   • Only report actual tool invocation failures
   • Add validation to distinguish between tool failures and log content

📊 Historical Context

Previous 24-hour audits (October 12):

• Morning: 14 runs, 92.86% success, 1 issue (Notion API auth)
• Afternoon: 13 runs, 92.3% success, 1 issue (persistent)
• Evening: 14 runs, 100% success, 1 issue (status tool)

Trend: The repository has maintained excellent health with 100% success rate in the last two audit periods. The main recurring issue is the MCP status tool token limit.

✅ Overall Health Assessment

Status: Excellent 🎉

• ✅ 100% workflow success rate
• ✅ All "errors" are false positives from log parsing
• ✅ All "missing tools" are false positives from log content
• ✅ Cost per run within acceptable range ($0.24/run)
• ⚠️ One actionable issue: MCP status tool needs jq filtering by default

The agentic workflows are functioning correctly. The high error and missing tool counts are artifacts of overly aggressive pattern matching in the audit tooling itself, not actual workflow failures.

🔄 Next Steps

• Add default jq filtering to gh-aw status MCP tool
• Update error detection patterns to exclude JSONL log files
• Refine missing tool detection to ignore log content
• Continue monitoring cost trends
• Next audit scheduled for: 2025-10-13 (daily at midnight UTC)

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Audit Generated: 2025-10-13T00:31:29Z
Auditor: Agentic Workflow Audit Agent
Cache Updated: Yes ✅ (/tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/2025-10-13.json)

AI generated by Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

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