🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - 2025-10-22

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🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - 2025-10-22

Executive Summary

This audit analyzed 43 workflow runs from the last 24 hours (2025-10-21 to 2025-10-22). The overall system health is NEEDS ATTENTION due to persistent GitHub MCP permission issues and new CLI installation failures.

Key Metrics

• Period: Last 24 hours (2025-10-21T00:30 - 2025-10-22T00:30 UTC)
• Runs Analyzed: 43
• Total Duration: 3.5 hours
• Workflows Active: 10
• Success Rate: 60.5% (26 successful, 17 failed, 0 cancelled)
• Total Token Usage: 11,290,167 tokens
• Total Cost: $8.35
• Total Errors: 297
• Total Warnings: 68
• Missing Tools Reported: 0
• MCP Server Failures: 0

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🚨 Critical Issues

Issue #1: GitHub MCP Permission Denied (HIGH SEVERITY)

Status: PERSISTENT (from previous audit)
Affected Workflows: Tidy, Weekly Issue Summary, Dev
Occurrences: 12+ instances across multiple runs

Description: Multiple workflows are hitting "Permission denied and could not request permission from user" errors when attempting to use GitHub MCP tools. This is the primary cause of Tidy workflow failures.

Impact:

• Tidy workflow success rate: 9.1% (1 success out of 11 runs)
• Weekly Issue Summary: Complete failure
• Detection jobs consistently failing in Tidy workflow
• Workflows cannot access GitHub API through MCP

Example Error:

Permission denied and could not request permission from user

Affected Runs:

• Weekly Issue Summary #18695597070 - Failed after 21.2 minutes
• Tidy #18683565979, #18681626663, #18669980853, #18670417753, #18669579511, #18669157809, #18668883871, #18668594417 - All failed due to detection job issues
• Dev #18668075006 - Failed with similar issues

Recommendation: CRITICAL PRIORITY

• Review GitHub MCP server configuration in affected workflows
• Ensure proper tool permissions are granted in workflow YAML files
• Consider implementing explicit permission grants for GitHub MCP tools

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Issue #2: CLI Version Checker - Command Not Found (HIGH SEVERITY)

Status: NEW (first detected in this audit)
Affected Workflows: CLI Version Checker
Occurrences: 1 run (#18680370502)

Description: The claude-code command is not accessible after npm installation of @anthropic-ai/[email protected]. The workflow consumed 2.4M tokens ($1.38) attempting to resolve this before timing out.

Impact:

• CLI Version Checker workflow: 0% success rate
• High token consumption on failed runs
• Unable to verify Claude Code CLI versions

Error Sequence:

npm install -g `@anthropic-ai/claude-code`
# Install succeeds
claude-code --help
# /bin/bash: line 1: claude-code: command not found

Recommendation: HIGH PRIORITY

• Investigate npm global binary installation path
• Ensure the binary is properly linked or added to PATH
• Consider using npx or explicit path to the binary
• Add early failure detection to avoid high token consumption

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Issue #3: Dev Hawk Authentication Failures (MEDIUM SEVERITY)

Status: PERSISTENT (from previous audit)
Affected Workflows: Dev Hawk
Occurrences: 3 out of 4 runs failed

Description: Dev Hawk workflow triggered by workflow_run events cannot access authentication credentials, resulting in "No authentication information found" errors.

Impact:

• Dev Hawk success rate: 25% (1 success, 3 failures)
• Copilot agent unable to access GitHub resources in workflow_run context

Affected Runs:

• #18667993243 - Failed (38s)
• #18667570059 - Failed (44s)
• Both failed with authentication errors

Recommendation: MEDIUM PRIORITY

• Review token inheritance in workflow_run trigger
• Ensure GITHUB_TOKEN is properly passed to triggered workflows
• Consider using explicit token passing in workflow configuration

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📊 Workflow Performance Breakdown

High Performers ✅

Workflow	Runs	Success Rate	Notes
Changeset Generator	13	92.3%	Excellent performance, 12 successes
Agentic Workflow Audit Agent	4	100%	All completed or in progress successfully
Copilot Agent PR Analysis	1	100%	Completed successfully
Dev (Claude)	3	100%	All Claude-powered Dev runs succeeded

Underperformers ⚠️

Workflow	Runs	Success Rate	Primary Issue
Tidy	11	9.1%	GitHub MCP permission denied
CLI Version Checker	1	0%	Command not found
Weekly Issue Summary	1	0%	GitHub MCP permission denied
Duplicate Code Detector	1	0%	Codex timeout/failure
Dev Hawk	4	25%	Authentication errors
Dev (Copilot)	3	0%	Mixed failures

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💰 Cost Analysis

Top 5 Most Expensive Runs

Workflow	Run ID	Cost	Tokens	Duration	Result
CLI Version Checker	18680370502	$1.38	2.4M	7.8m	❌ Failed
Agentic Audit (10/21)	18670075774	$0.92	1.6M	17.6m	✅ Success
Agentic Audit (10/21)	18669588678	$0.88	1.5M	11.3m	✅ Success
Agentic Audit (10/21)	18668879630	$0.85	1.2M	8.5m	✅ Success
Copilot Agent PR	18680192450	$0.53	629K	4.9m	✅ Success

Concern: CLI Version Checker consumed $1.38 in a failed run - inefficient error handling or retry logic needs optimization.

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🔧 Missing Tools & MCP Failures

Missing Tools

Status: ✅ NONE DETECTED

No workflows reported missing tools during this audit period. All required tools were available.

MCP Server Failures

Status: ✅ NONE DETECTED

No MCP server connection failures or crashes were detected. All MCP servers (GitHub, gh-aw, safe-outputs) operated normally.

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📈 Tool Usage Statistics

Top tools used across all workflows:

Tool	Total Calls	Workflows Using
github	102	12
TodoWrite	84	17
Read	61	20
safe_outputs	33	10
Write	18	17
gh-aw_audit	13	3
gh-aw_logs	9	3

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📉 Historical Context

Comparison with Previous Audit (2025-10-21)

Metric	Oct 21	Oct 22	Change
Total Runs	46	43	-6.5%
Total Errors	663	297	-55% ⬇️
Total Warnings	151	68	-55% ⬇️
Total Cost	$13.24	$8.35	-37% ⬇️
Avg Cost/Run	$0.29	$0.19	-34% ⬇️
Health Status	EXCELLENT	NEEDS ATTENTION	⚠️

Trend Analysis:

• Similar GitHub MCP permission issues persist
• New CLI Version Checker issue discovered
• Overall error/warning counts decreased but critical issues remain unresolved
• Cost efficiency improved (lower average cost per run)
• Despite fewer total errors, critical blocking issues keep success rates low for affected workflows

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🎯 Recommendations

Priority 1: CRITICAL

1. Fix GitHub MCP Permission Configuration
   • Impact: Affects 3 major workflows (Tidy, Weekly Issue Summary, Dev)
   • Action: Review and update GitHub MCP server configuration
   • Details: Ensure proper tool permissions are granted in workflow YAML files for GitHub MCP tools
   • Expected Outcome: Restore Tidy workflow to healthy state, enable Weekly Issue Summary

Priority 2: HIGH

2. Fix CLI Version Checker Installation

   • Impact: CLI version monitoring completely broken
   • Action: Fix claude-code CLI binary accessibility after npm install
   • Details: Ensure binary is in PATH or use npx/explicit path
   • Expected Outcome: Restore CLI version monitoring functionality

3. Optimize CLI Version Checker Error Handling

   • Impact: Prevents costly failed runs
   • Action: Add early failure detection and reduce unnecessary retries
   • Details: Implement circuit breaker pattern for known failures
   • Expected Outcome: Reduce wasted tokens and costs on failed runs

Priority 3: MEDIUM

4. Fix Dev Hawk Authentication
   • Impact: Reduces Dev Hawk effectiveness by 75%
   • Action: Review token passing in workflow_run trigger
   • Details: Ensure GITHUB_TOKEN is properly inherited or explicitly passed
   • Expected Outcome: Improve Dev Hawk success rate from 25% to >90%

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✅ Positive Observations

1. No Missing Tools: All workflows have access to required tools
2. No MCP Failures: All MCP servers operating reliably
3. High Changeset Generator Performance: 92.3% success rate
4. Improved Cost Efficiency: Average cost per run decreased 34%
5. Error Reduction: Total errors down 55% from previous audit

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📋 Next Steps

• Immediate: Address GitHub MCP permission configuration for Tidy workflow
• This Week: Fix CLI Version Checker installation issue
• This Week: Investigate and resolve Dev Hawk authentication
• This Week: Monitor Tidy workflow for improvement after permission fix
• Next Audit: Verify all issues are resolved or improving

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📁 Audit Data

• Audit File: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/2025-10-22.json
• Error Patterns: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/patterns/errors.json
• Logs Location: /tmp/gh-aw/aw-mcp/logs/
• Runs Processed: 43 (timeout reached, more available)

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🔮 Forecast

If critical issues are not addressed:

• Tidy workflow will continue to fail at ~90% rate
• Weekly Issue Summary will remain non-functional
• CLI Version Checker will accumulate costs without producing results
• Dev Hawk will have limited effectiveness

Recommended Timeline: Address critical issues within 1-2 days to prevent further degradation.

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Generated by Agentic Workflow Audit Agent
Run ID: 18701581902
Date: 2025-10-22T00:33:00Z

AI generated by Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

[pelikhan]

/q remove forecast from workflow

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Agentic Q triggered by this discussion comment.

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Q Investigation Report

I've completed a thorough search of the repository to locate "forecast" references in workflows, but I could not find any instances of "forecast" in the current codebase.

Search Results

I searched:

• ✅ All workflow markdown files in .github/workflows/*.md
• ✅ Shared workflow configurations in .github/workflows/shared/
• ✅ All MCP server configurations
• ✅ Git commit history
• ✅ All markdown and Go files

Result: No matches for "forecast" found in any workflow files or configurations.

Possible Scenarios

1. Already Removed: The forecast reference may have already been removed in a previous commit
2. Different Name: The feature might be called something else (e.g., "prediction", "estimate")
3. Specific Context Needed: Could you clarify:
   • Which specific workflow file contains the forecast reference?
   • Is this about a tool, MCP server, or workflow instruction?
   • Is there a specific issue or PR where this was added?

Next Steps

Please provide additional context so I can help remove the correct configuration:

• Name of the specific workflow file
• Or a description of what "forecast" refers to (e.g., a tool name, MCP server, feature)
• Or a link to where it was added

Once I have this information, I'll create a pull request to remove it.

AI generated by Q for discussion #2090

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This discussion was automatically closed because it was created by an agentic workflow more than 1 month ago.