🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 25, 2025

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🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 25, 2025

Executive Summary

Analyzed 9 workflow runs over the last 24 hours (2025-10-25 00:00 - 2025-10-25 00:29 UTC). This was a lighter day compared to the previous audit (9 runs vs 43 runs), but showed a significant increase in failure rate with more critical issues detected.

Key Metrics:

• Success Rate: 55.6% (down 35.1% from previous audit's 90.7%)
• Total Errors: 53 errors across 9 runs (5.89 errors/run, up 128% from 2.58/run)
• Total Warnings: 12
• Missing Tools: 0 (all required tools available)
• Total Cost: $0.90 (1.1M tokens)
• Failed Workflows: 3 failures, 1 cancellation

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Full Audit Report Details

Critical Issues Found

🚨 NEW Critical Issue: Copilot Log Path Resolution Failure

Workflow: Basic Research Agent (Run #18794994832)
Severity: CRITICAL
Status: New in this audit

The Copilot agent is experiencing a critical template variable resolution error:

• Error: not found: ${logPath} (4 occurrences)
• Error: not found: /tmp/gh-aw/.copilot/logs/ (2 occurrences)
• Additional: 4 permission denied errors
• Result: Workflow failed completely

Impact: Basic Research Agent is completely broken and cannot execute.

Root Cause: Template variables like ${logPath} are not being resolved and appear literally in error messages, indicating a templating or configuration issue in the Copilot agent setup.

Recommended Action:

1. Investigate Copilot agent log path configuration
2. Ensure template variable resolution is working correctly
3. Verify log directory creation in workflow initialization

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🚨 NEW Critical Issue: Codex Workspace Not Found

Workflow: Duplicate Code Detector (Run #18792011503)
Severity: HIGH
Status: New in this audit

The Codex agent failed with a workspace configuration error:

• Error: Project '/workspace' not found: Not a valid project name or directory
• Duration: 11.0 minutes, 40 turns before failure
• Result: Workflow failed after long execution

Impact: Duplicate Code Detector is broken, wasting resources on failed runs.

Recommended Action:

1. Configure Codex agent workspace properly
2. Fix project initialization in Duplicate Code Detector workflow
3. Add pre-flight checks to validate workspace before agent execution

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⚠️ Smoke Copilot Failure

Workflow: Smoke Copilot (Run #18793922678)
Severity: HIGH
Branch: copilot/add-additional-mcp-server-support

Smoke test failed, likely related to MCP server support changes being developed.

Recommended Action:

• Review MCP server support implementation on the branch
• Ensure smoke tests pass before merging

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⚠️ Tidy Workflow Cancelled

Workflow: Tidy (Run #18794968623)
Severity: MEDIUM
Duration: 5.4 minutes before cancellation

• Errors: 9 errors including error pattern parsing issues
• Warnings: 3 warnings

Recommended Action: Monitor for repeated cancellations - may indicate timeout or resource constraints.

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Recurring Error Patterns

1. Permission Denied Errors (CONTINUING)

• Occurrences: 4 new occurrences (reduced from 36 yesterday)
• Pattern: "Permission denied and could not request permission from user"
• Affected: Basic Research Agent
• Trend: IMPROVING - down 89% from yesterday
• Total Historical: 52 occurrences since 2025-10-21

2. Push to Pull Request Branch Errors (NEW)

• Occurrences: 2
• Pattern: push_to_pull_request_branch errors
• Affected: Changeset Generator (Copilot variants)
• Severity: MEDIUM
• Note: Claude-based Changeset Generator succeeded, Copilot variants had push errors

3. Network Issues (LOW PRIORITY)

• Occurrences: 2
• Pattern: ICMPv6 network unreachable to Cloudflare IPs
• Severity: LOW - Infrastructure related, not workflow error

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Successful Workflows ✅

Changeset Generator (3/3 succeeded)

• Engines: Claude (1/1), Copilot (2/2)
• Success Rate: 100%
• Notes: All changeset generators completed successfully despite some minor push errors in Copilot variants

Smoke Detector - Smoke Test Failure Investigator

• Engine: Claude
• Duration: 5.2 minutes
• Turns: 52
• Tokens: 863K ($0.64)
• Success Rate: 100%
• Notes: Successfully investigated a smoke test failure with comprehensive analysis

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Tool Usage Statistics

Tool	Calls	Runs	Notes
github	55	3	GitHub MCP server working well
serena_find_symbol	31	1	Codex search functionality
Read	10	2	File reading operations
TodoWrite	8	2	Task tracking
safeoutputs	7	3	Output operations
gh-aw	2	1	MCP audit tools used successfully

MCP Server Status: All MCP servers (github, gh-aw, safeoutputs) functioning correctly with 0 failures.

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Comparison with Previous Audit (2025-10-24)

Metric	Previous	Current	Change
Runs Analyzed	43	9	-79% (lighter day)
Success Rate	90.7%	55.6%	-35.1% (worse)
Errors per Run	2.58	5.89	+128% (much worse)
Failed Runs	4	3	Similar
Missing Tools	0	0	Same

Issues Resolved Since Last Audit ✅

• ✅ Exit code 127 errors (command not found in smoke tests)
• ✅ Workflow parse errors (unknown property issues)
• ✅ GenAIScript undefined text errors
• ✅ Smoke GenAIScript detection failures

New Issues Detected Today 🆕

• 🆕 CRITICAL: Copilot log path resolution failure
• 🆕 HIGH: Codex workspace not found
• 🆕 Push to pull request branch errors

Continuing Issues

• 🔄 Permission denied errors (reduced but continuing)
• 🔄 Changeset Generator push errors

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Recommendations by Priority

Priority: CRITICAL

1. Fix Copilot Log Path Resolution
   • Issue: Template variables not being resolved (${logPath})
   • Workflow: Basic Research Agent
   • Action: Debug and fix template variable resolution in Copilot agent
   • Impact: Complete workflow failure

Priority: HIGH

2. Fix Codex Workspace Configuration

   • Issue: /workspace directory not found or not configured
   • Workflow: Duplicate Code Detector
   • Action: Properly configure Codex agent workspace initialization
   • Impact: Workflow fails after wasting 11 minutes of execution

3. Review Smoke Copilot MCP Changes

   • Issue: Smoke test failure on MCP support branch
   • Workflow: Smoke Copilot
   • Action: Test MCP server support changes thoroughly before merge
   • Impact: Potential regression in MCP functionality

Priority: MEDIUM

4. Fix Changeset Generator Push Errors

   • Issue: push_to_pull_request_branch errors in Copilot variants
   • Workflow: Changeset Generator
   • Action: Review push implementation and error handling
   • Impact: Changesets may not be properly pushed to PR branches

5. Monitor Permission Denied Errors

   • Issue: Continuing permission errors (reduced but not eliminated)
   • Workflow: Basic Research Agent
   • Action: Continue monitoring - trend is improving
   • Impact: Some agent operations blocked

Priority: LOW

6. Monitor Tidy Cancellations
   • Issue: Workflow cancelled after 5.4 minutes
   • Workflow: Tidy
   • Action: Monitor for repeated cancellations
   • Impact: Wasted execution time if frequent

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Positive Findings

✅ No Missing Tools: All required MCP tools are available and functioning
✅ MCP Servers Healthy: 0 MCP server failures detected
✅ Some Workflows Performing Well: Changeset Generator and Smoke Detector both working correctly
✅ Several Issues Resolved: 3 high-priority issues from previous audit have been resolved
✅ Claude Agent Stable: Claude-based workflows showing good stability

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Historical Context

This is the 6th consecutive daily audit since the audit agent was established on 2025-10-21.

Trend Analysis:

• Error patterns are being tracked successfully across 17 unique pattern types
• Some patterns show improvement (permission errors down 89%)
• New patterns emerge regularly, requiring ongoing monitoring
• The audit system is successfully identifying and tracking issues over time

Pattern Database: Currently tracking 17 error patterns with detailed history, severity, and trends.

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Next Steps

• URGENT: Investigate and fix Copilot log path resolution issue in Basic Research Agent
• URGENT: Configure Codex workspace for Duplicate Code Detector
• Review Smoke Copilot failure on MCP support branch
• Fix Changeset Generator push errors
• Continue monitoring permission denied errors for further improvement
• Schedule next audit for 2025-10-26 00:00 UTC

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Audit Metadata

• Audit Date: 2025-10-25T00:29:03Z
• Period Covered: Last 24 hours (2025-10-24 to 2025-10-25)
• Runs Analyzed: 9 workflow runs
• Audit Duration: ~10 minutes
• Audit Tool: gh-aw MCP server v2.0
• Data Stored: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/2025-10-25.json
• Patterns Updated: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/patterns/errors.json

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Generated by: Agentic Workflow Audit Agent (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
Report ID: audit-2025-10-25
Next Audit: 2025-10-26 00:00 UTC

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