🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 29, 2025

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🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 29, 2025

The daily audit of agentic workflows has been completed. This report covers all workflow runs from the last 24 hours in the githubnext/gh-aw repository.

Executive Summary

Over the past 24 hours, 103 agentic workflow runs were executed across 26 different workflows. The system achieved an 80.6% success rate with 83 successful runs, 15 failures, and 2 cancellations. While the success rate is good, there are several areas requiring attention, particularly around error detection patterns and MCP server stability.

Key Highlights:

• ✅ High overall success rate (80.6%)
• ⚠️ 90 runs logged errors (87%), though many are false positives from detection patterns
• 🔧 2 missing tool reports from firewall log analysis workflows
• ❌ 2 MCP server failures (deepwiki, context7) affecting Scout workflows
• 🔒 192 firewall requests, all allowed with no blocked domains

Full Report Details

Audit Statistics

Run Distribution

• Total Runs Analyzed: 103
• Workflows Active: 26 unique workflows
• Time Period: Last 24 hours (October 28-29, 2025)

Success Metrics

Metric	Count	Percentage
✅ Successful	83	80.6%
❌ Failed	15	14.6%
⊘ Cancelled	2	1.9%
🚨 With Errors	90	87.4%

Top Active Workflows

Workflow	Run Count	Status
Changeset Generator	17	Mixed (2 failures)
Tidy	16	Mixed (3 failures)
Smoke Claude	6	All smoke tests
Smoke Codex	6	All smoke tests
Smoke Copilot	6	All smoke tests
Q	5	1 failure
Smoke Copilot Firewall	5	All smoke tests
Smoke Detector	5	Investigative
Smoke OpenCode	5	3 failures
CLI Version Checker	3	1 failure

Error Analysis

Critical Findings

While 90 runs (87.4%) reported errors, analysis reveals that many are false positives due to overly aggressive error detection patterns. The detection system is incorrectly flagging:

• Tool invocations (e.g., "Read .changeset")
• Code snippets in logs (e.g., "} catch (error) {")
• Normal warning messages as errors

Top Error Patterns

Error/Warning	Count	Type	Severity
Permission denied and could not request permission from user	40	Warning	🟡 Medium
Failed to load custom agents for githubnext/gh-aw: Not Found	32	Warning	🟢 Low
could not load remote agents: server returned 404	32	Warning	🟢 Low
HTTP requires the use of Via	29	Warning	🟢 Low
log name now starts with a module name	29	Warning	🟢 Low
push_to_pull_request_branch	20	Error	🔴 High
} catch (error) {	12	Error	🟢 Low (false positive)
Read .changeset	9	Error	🟢 Low (false positive)
MCP client for gh-aw errored TypeError: fetch failed	4	Error	🔴 High

Genuine Issues Requiring Attention

1. Permission Issues (40 occurrences): Agents are encountering permission denials when attempting certain operations. This may be related to GitHub token permissions or workflow permissions configuration.

2. Push to Pull Request Branch Errors (20 occurrences): Workflows are experiencing failures when attempting to push to pull request branches. This could indicate permission issues or branch protection rule conflicts.

3. MCP Client Fetch Failures (4 occurrences): The gh-aw MCP client is experiencing network fetch failures, potentially indicating connectivity or authentication issues.

Missing Tools

Two workflows reported missing tools, both related to the Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter:

Missing Tool Reports

Tool	Workflow	Reason
GitHub Workflow Runs API Access	Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter	Need to list workflow runs, download artifacts, and access run metadata for firewall log analysis. Current permissions block gh CLI and API calls.
github-download_artifacts	Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter	Need to download firewall log artifacts (squid-logs-*) from workflow runs to analyze blocked domains

Affected Runs:

• §18823842600
• §18871049335

Recommendation: The firewall log analysis workflow needs enhanced permissions to access workflow run artifacts. Consider either:

1. Adding GitHub Actions artifact download capability to the GitHub MCP server
2. Granting elevated permissions to this specific workflow
3. Using a GitHub Actions-native approach for artifact collection

MCP Server Failures

Two MCP servers are consistently failing in Scout workflows:

Failed MCP Servers

Server	Status	Workflows Affected	Occurrences
deepwiki	Failed	Scout	2
context7	Failed	Scout	2

Affected Runs:

• §18882899209
• §18890291456

Impact: Both Scout workflow runs failed, suggesting these MCP servers are critical dependencies. The failures are 100% consistent across the runs analyzed.

Recommendation:

1. Investigate the configuration and availability of deepwiki and context7 MCP servers
2. Check server logs for connection or authentication issues
3. Consider adding health checks or fallback mechanisms for optional MCP servers

Failed Workflow Runs

15 workflow runs failed during the audit period:

Run ID	Workflow	URL
18819663584	CLI Version Checker	View Run
18855492250	Tidy	View Run
18855781708	Duplicate Code Detector	View Run
18856467834	Changeset Generator	View Run
18863305407	Changeset Generator	View Run
18867167274	Tidy	View Run
18874055853	Technical Documentation Writer	View Run
18877478672	Q	View Run
18878520693	Tidy	View Run
18882899209	Scout	View Run
18884796668	Smoke OpenCode	View Run
18890291456	Scout	View Run
18890591960	Smoke OpenCode	View Run
18892865991	Smoke Codex	View Run
18893290104	Smoke OpenCode	View Run

Notable Patterns:

• 3 Smoke OpenCode failures: Suggests potential issues with the OpenCode engine or test configuration
• 3 Tidy failures: Multiple failures in the Tidy workflow may indicate a regression
• 2 Scout failures: Both failures correspond to MCP server issues (deepwiki, context7)
• 2 Changeset Generator failures: May be related to the "push_to_pull_request_branch" errors

Firewall Analysis

The firewall monitoring captured 192 network requests over the audit period:

Firewall Summary

• Total Requests: 192
• Allowed Requests: 192 (100%)
• Denied Requests: 0 (0%)

Allowed Domains

All network traffic was permitted to the following domains:

1. api.enterprise.githubcopilot.com:443 - GitHub Copilot API
2. api.github.com:443 - GitHub API
3. github.com:443 - GitHub main site
4. registry.npmjs.org:443 - NPM package registry

Assessment: The firewall is functioning correctly. All traffic is to expected and legitimate services. No blocked or suspicious domains were detected.

Performance Metrics

⚠️ Note: Token usage and cost metrics were not captured in the analyzed runs (all showing 0 values). This may indicate a logging or metric collection issue that needs investigation.

Expected metrics not available:

• Token usage per run
• Estimated costs
• Turn counts
• Detailed timing metrics

Recommendation: Investigate why performance metrics are not being captured in run summaries.

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Fix Error Detection Patterns 🔴

   • Review and refine error detection regex patterns
   • Exclude common false positives (tool names, code snippets)
   • Distinguish between genuine errors and normal log entries
   • Impact: This will significantly reduce noise and improve accuracy of error reporting

2. Resolve MCP Server Failures 🔴

   • Investigate deepwiki and context7 MCP server failures
   • Check authentication, network connectivity, and configuration
   • Add health checks or graceful degradation for optional servers
   • Impact: Critical for Scout workflow reliability

3. Investigate Smoke OpenCode Failures 🔴

   • 3 of 5 Smoke OpenCode runs failed (60% failure rate)
   • Determine root cause and fix before next smoke test cycle
   • Impact: Test stability and confidence in OpenCode engine

Medium Priority

4. Address Permission Issues 🟡

   • Review 40 permission denied warnings
   • Audit GitHub token permissions for workflows
   • Document required permissions per workflow
   • Impact: Improved workflow reliability and reduced warnings

5. Enable Firewall Artifact Analysis 🟡

   • Add GitHub Actions artifact download capability to MCP server
   • Or grant necessary permissions to Daily Firewall workflow
   • Impact: Enable comprehensive firewall log analysis

6. Fix Push to PR Branch Errors 🟡

   • Investigate 20 push_to_pull_request_branch errors
   • Check branch protection rules and permissions
   • Impact: Improved reliability of workflows that create PRs

Low Priority

7. Fix Custom Agents Loading 🟢

   • Resolve 404 errors for custom agents (32 occurrences)
   • Either create missing configuration or remove the check
   • Impact: Reduced log noise

8. Update Squid Configuration 🟢

   • Update squid logging configuration to new format
   • Add Via header to HTTP requests
   • Impact: Cleaner logs, proper squid configuration

9. Enable Performance Metrics Collection 🟢

   • Investigate why token usage, cost, and turn metrics are showing 0
   • Ensure metrics are properly captured and logged
   • Impact: Better cost tracking and performance analysis

Historical Context

This is the first automated audit using the new audit system. Future audits will include:

• Trend analysis comparing to previous days
• Identification of new vs. recurring issues
• Success rate trends over time
• Cost tracking and optimization opportunities

Next Steps

• Create issues for high-priority recommendations
• Investigate Smoke OpenCode failures before next test cycle
• Schedule deepwiki and context7 MCP server troubleshooting
• Review error detection patterns and create PR with fixes
• Monitor Tidy and Changeset Generator workflows for patterns
• Follow up on permission issues with workflow authors

Methodology

This audit was performed using the gh-aw MCP server to download and analyze logs from all workflow runs in the last 24 hours. Analysis included:

• Run success/failure rates
• Error pattern detection and classification
• Missing tool identification
• MCP server health monitoring
• Firewall traffic analysis
• Failed run cataloging

All findings have been stored in the cache memory system (/tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/) for future trend analysis and historical comparison.

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References:

• §18882899209 - Scout failure with MCP issues
• §18890291456 - Scout failure with MCP issues
• §18884796668 - Smoke OpenCode failure

AI generated by Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

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