🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 23, 2025

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🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 23, 2025

Executive Summary

Analyzed 52 workflow runs from the last 24 hours with an 88% success rate. Identified 6 failures across different workflows, with new patterns emerging around post-processing failures and custom engine smoke tests. Total cost for the period: $12.17.

Key Findings:

• ✅ No missing tools or MCP server failures detected
• ⚠️ 4 workflows failed in post-processing (create_issue step) after successful agent execution
• ⚠️ 3 custom engine smoke tests failing (GenAIScript, OpenCode)
• ⚠️ 1 workflow timeout on Dev workflow (21 minutes)
• 📊 High token usage observed in Schema Consistency Checker (2.5M tokens, $1.42)

Full Audit Report

Audit Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours (2025-10-22 to 2025-10-23)
• Runs Analyzed: 52
• Workflows Active: 30+ different workflows
• Success Rate: 88% (46 successes, 6 failures)
• Issues Found: 6 failures, 4 new error patterns

Key Metrics

Metric	Value
Total Duration	4.5 hours
Total Tokens	17,179,630
Total Cost	$12.17
Total Turns	1,200
Avg Cost/Run	$0.23
Avg Turns/Run	23

Missing Tools

✅ No missing tools detected - All requested tools were available.

Error Analysis

Critical Errors

1. Post-Processing Failures (Priority: HIGH)

Pattern: create_issue_post_processing_failure

Agents complete successfully, detection succeeds, but the final create_issue step fails.

Affected Workflows:

• Duplicate Code Detector (run 18729749759) - Codex agent, 17m duration
• CLI Version Checker (run 18720599909) - Claude agent, 6.2m duration, 61 turns
• Smoke OpenCode (run 18722224746) - Custom engine, 2m duration
• Smoke GenAIScript (run 18727962258) - Custom engine, 3.9m duration

Impact: High - Agents do all the work successfully but issues don't get created
Recommendation: Investigate GitHub API permissions for issue creation or review the create_issue job logic

2. Custom Engine Smoke Test Failures (Priority: HIGH)

Pattern: custom_engine_smoke_test_failure

GenAIScript and OpenCode smoke tests consistently failing.

Affected Workflows:

• Smoke GenAIScript (runs 18727962258, 18722204018)
• Smoke OpenCode (run 18722224746)

Failure Points:

• GenAIScript: Both agent and detection stages failing
• OpenCode: Agent succeeds but create_issue fails

Recommendation: Review installation and detection steps for these custom engines. May need updates to smoke test procedures.

3. Workflow Timeout (Priority: HIGH)

Pattern: workflow_timeout

Dev workflow exceeded 20-minute timeout limit.

Affected Workflow: Dev (run 18729825821)

• Branch: mossaka/gh-aw-firewall
• Duration: 21 minutes (timeout at 20.6m in agent job)
• Agent: Copilot

Recommendation: Either increase timeout limit for Dev workflow or optimize performance on the firewall branch.

4. Quick Agent Failure (Priority: MEDIUM)

Pattern: Schema Consistency Checker failed within 38 seconds

Affected Workflow: Schema Consistency Checker (run 18736115130)

• Agent job failed after just 16 seconds
• No detailed error information available

Recommendation: Review agent logs to determine root cause of quick failure.

Warnings

Codex Stream Disconnections (Priority: LOW)

Pattern: codex_stream_disconnection

Codex agent experienced stream disconnections but successfully recovered with retries.

Affected Workflow: Duplicate Code Detector

• 2 occurrences during 17-minute run
• Retries successful in 184ms and 194ms

Recommendation: Monitor but no immediate action required - retry mechanism working correctly.

High Error Counts in Successful Runs (Priority: MEDIUM)

Pattern: high_error_count_false_positives

Some workflows report very high error counts but complete successfully.

Example: Schema Consistency Checker (run 18737126136)

• Status: Success
• Error Count: 154 (!!)
• Warning Count: 19
• Turns: 211
• Cost: $1.42

Recommendation: Review error detection logic in audit tool - likely parsing JSON message logs as errors (false positives).

MCP Server Failures

✅ No MCP server failures detected

Performance Metrics

Top 3 by Cost

Workflow	Run ID	Cost	Tokens	Turns	Duration
Schema Consistency Checker	18737126136	$1.42	2,588,128	211	8.4m
Technical Documentation Writer	18732907198	$1.04	1,742,475	77	6.7m
Lockfile Statistics Analysis	18736473975	$0.98	1,066,660	84	9.4m

Top 3 by Duration

Workflow	Run ID	Duration	Status
Dev	18729825821	21.0m	❌ Failure (timeout)
Duplicate Code Detector	18729749759	17.0m	❌ Failure (post-processing)
Schema Consistency Checker	18737126136	8.4m	✅ Success

Top 3 by Turns

Workflow	Run ID	Turns	Cost	Duration
Schema Consistency Checker	18737126136	211	$1.42	8.4m
Lockfile Statistics Analysis	18736473975	84	$0.98	9.4m
Technical Documentation Writer	18732907198	77	$1.04	6.7m

Affected Workflows

Failed Workflows (6)

1. Schema Consistency Checker (18736115130) - Agent failure, 38s
2. Duplicate Code Detector (18729749759) - Post-processing failure, 17m
3. Dev (18729825821) - Timeout, 21m
4. Smoke GenAIScript (18727962258, 18722204018) - Detection/agent failures
5. Smoke OpenCode (18722224746) - Post-processing failure, 2m
6. CLI Version Checker (18720599909) - Post-processing failure, 6.2m

High-Error Successful Workflows (3)

1. Schema Consistency Checker (18737126136) - 154 errors, succeeded
2. Smoke Detector (18733614670) - 36 errors, succeeded
3. Technical Documentation Writer (18732907198) - 18 errors, succeeded

Agent Performance Breakdown

Agent	Runs	Failures	Success Rate	Avg Cost	Notes
Claude	23	1	96%	$0.53	High reliability
Copilot	18	1	94%	N/A	One timeout
Codex	2	1	50%	N/A	Post-processing failure
Custom	9	3	67%	N/A	Smoke tests failing

Tool Usage Statistics

Top 5 most used tools:

1. github - 310 calls across 18 runs
2. TodoWrite - 120 calls across 22 runs
3. Read - 107 calls across 26 runs
4. safe_outputs - 58 calls across 18 runs
5. Write - 29 calls across 19 runs

Recommendations

High Priority Actions

1. Fix Post-Processing Issue

   • 4 workflows failing at create_issue step after successful agent execution
   • Check GitHub API permissions and issue creation logic
   • Affected: Duplicate Code Detector, CLI Version Checker, Smoke tests

2. Debug Custom Engine Smoke Tests

   • GenAIScript and OpenCode consistently failing
   • Review installation procedures and detection steps
   • May need engine updates or smoke test adjustments

3. Address Dev Workflow Timeout

   • 21-minute timeout on firewall branch
   • Either increase timeout or optimize workflow
   • Branch: mossaka/gh-aw-firewall

Medium Priority Actions

4. Review Error Detection Logic

   • Schema Consistency Checker reports 154 errors but succeeds
   • Audit tool likely parsing JSON logs as errors
   • Need to improve error detection filtering

5. Investigate Schema Consistency Checker Quick Failure

   • Failed in 38 seconds (16s agent time)
   • Review logs to determine root cause

Low Priority Actions

6. Monitor Codex Stream Disconnections
   • Occurring but retries work correctly
   • No immediate action required
   • Continue monitoring for frequency increases

Historical Context

Comparison with Previous Audit (Oct 23, 00:33 UTC)

Improvements:

• ✅ No missing tools (consistent)
• ✅ No MCP server failures (consistent)
• ✅ Total errors decreased from 685 to 539

Regressions:

• ⚠️ Failed runs increased from 3 to 6
• ⚠️ Success rate decreased from 94% to 88%
• ⚠️ Cost increased from $10.58 to $12.17

New Issues:

• 🆕 Post-processing create_issue failures (4 instances)
• 🆕 Custom engine smoke tests failing (3 instances)
• 🆕 Dev workflow timeout

Persistent Issues:

• Permission/authentication issues not seen in this audit (improvement!)
• Detection job failures not seen in this audit (improvement!)

Trends from Historical Data

Looking at the error patterns database:

Stable/Resolved:

• permission_denied_github_mcp - Not detected today (previously 12 occurrences)
• auth_not_found_copilot - Not detected today (previously 5 occurrences)
• detection_job_failure - Not detected today (previously 19 occurrences)

New Patterns Emerging:

• create_issue_post_processing_failure - NEW
• custom_engine_smoke_test_failure - NEW
• workflow_timeout - NEW
• codex_stream_disconnection - NEW
• high_error_count_false_positives - NEW

Next Steps

• Investigate GitHub API permissions for create_issue failures
• Debug GenAIScript and OpenCode smoke test procedures
• Review Dev workflow timeout on firewall branch
• Improve audit tool error detection logic
• Review Schema Consistency Checker quick failure logs
• Monitor Codex stream disconnection frequency
• Continue daily audit monitoring

Data Sources

• Workflow logs: /tmp/gh-aw/aw-mcp/logs
• Detailed audit: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/2025-10-23-detailed.json
• Error patterns: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/patterns/errors.json
• Audit index: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/index.json

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Audit completed at: 2025-10-23T04:52:25Z
Next audit: 2025-10-24T00:00:00Z
Audit agent: Claude (Sonnet 4.5)

AI generated by Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

[pelikhan]

/q optimize cli version checker based on previous runs.

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Agentic Q triggered by this discussion comment.

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✅ Q Optimization Complete

I've analyzed the CLI version checker workflow based on 13 recent runs and created a pull request with targeted optimizations.

📊 Key Findings

Performance Issues Identified:

• 30% failure rate (4 out of 13 runs)
• Failed runs cost 3-7x more ($0.87-$1.52 vs $0.35-$0.42)
• Failed runs took 55-108 turns vs 23-24 for successful runs
• High repetitive operations: 106 TodoWrite calls, 65 WebFetch calls

Root Causes:

1. No turn limit allowing runaway loops
2. No persistent memory causing redundant work
3. Inefficient npm package queries using web-fetch instead of npm CLI

🔧 Optimizations Applied

1. Added max-turns: 30 - Prevents runaway loops
2. Enabled cache-memory - Persistent state across runs
3. Added npm view/list tools - More efficient package queries
4. Added efficiency guidelines - Parallel fetches, early exit, caching strategies

📈 Expected Impact

• Failure rate: 30% → <10%
• Average tokens: 1.45M → 600k (60% reduction)
• Average runtime: 6.5min → 2-3min
• Average cost: $0.96 → $0.35 (64% reduction)

The pull request is ready for review!

AI generated by Q for discussion #2202

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