🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - November 7, 2025

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🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - November 7, 2025

This audit analyzed workflow activity over the last 24 hours, examining 75 workflow runs across multiple agentic workflows. The analysis reveals a significant drop in success rates and identifies key areas for improvement.

📊 Audit Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours (November 6-7, 2025)
• Runs Analyzed: 75 workflow runs
• Workflows Active: 65 distinct workflows
• Success Rate: 60.00% ⚠️
• Issues Found: 25 failed runs
• Total Cost (24h): $10.08
• Wasted Cost (failures): $3.63

📈 Workflow Health Trends

Success/Failure Patterns

Analysis: The chart shows a concerning drop in workflow success rates on November 6th, falling from 95.83% to 60%. The number of failures spiked to 25 on November 6th, indicating systematic issues affecting multiple workflows. Success rates remained at 60% through November 7th, suggesting ongoing problems that need immediate attention.

Token Usage & Costs

Analysis: Token consumption peaked dramatically on November 6th with 22.19 million tokens consumed at a cost of $14.41, representing an 84% cost increase from the previous day. The spike correlates with the increased failure rate, with approximately $3.63 (25% of daily cost) wasted on failed runs. This suggests inefficient resource utilization when workflows fail after consuming significant tokens.

Full Audit Details

🔴 Critical Issues

1. High Failure Rate - Developer Documentation Consolidator

Impact: 8 failures in 24 hours

• Tokens Wasted: 4,444,248 tokens
• Cost Wasted: $2.85
• Severity: CRITICAL

Details: This workflow accounts for 32% of all failures and 78% of wasted costs. The high token consumption before failure suggests the workflow is doing substantial work before encountering errors.

Run IDs: Multiple failures detected - view example run §19146064258

2. Multiple Activation Failures - PR Nitpick Reviewer 🔍

Impact: 7 failures in 24 hours

• Tokens Wasted: 0 tokens
• Cost Wasted: $0.00
• Severity: HIGH

Details: All failures occurred with 0 token usage, indicating failures during activation/setup phase before the agent begins work. This suggests environmental issues, missing dependencies, or permission problems.

Run IDs: Multiple activation failures detected - view example run §19144708898

3. Recurring Failures - Tidy Workflow

Impact: 4 failures in 24 hours

• Tokens Wasted: 0 tokens
• Cost Wasted: $0.00
• Severity: MEDIUM

Details: Similar to PR Nitpick Reviewer, all failures with 0 token usage suggest activation/environment issues.

Run IDs: §19144000246, §19147287558

⚠️ Secondary Issues

4. Duplicate Code Detector Failures

Impact: 2 failures in 24 hours

• Tokens: 0
• Cost: $0.00

5. Other Single-Instance Failures

• Daily Documentation Updater: 1 failure ($0.78, 1.2M tokens)
• Weekly Issue Summary: 1 failure ($0.00)
• The Daily Repository Chronicle: 1 failure ($0.00)
• Changeset Generator: 1 failure ($0.00)

📊 Performance Metrics Summary

Cost Analysis

• Total Tokens (All Runs): 26,919,074 tokens
• Total Cost (All Runs): $16.71
• Average Cost per Run: $0.13
• Wasted on Failures: $3.63 (21.7% of total cost)
• Cost Efficiency: 78.3%

Temporal Analysis

November 4, 2025

• Runs: 5
• Success Rate: 80.0%
• Cost: $0.35
• Tokens: 966,678

November 5, 2025

• Runs: 24
• Success Rate: 95.83% ✅
• Cost: $1.60
• Tokens: 3,456,428

November 6, 2025 ⚠️

• Runs: 70 (14x increase)
• Success Rate: 60.0% (35.83% drop)
• Cost: $14.41 (9x increase)
• Tokens: 22,186,476

November 7, 2025 (Partial Day)

• Runs: 5
• Success Rate: 60.0%
• Cost: $0.36
• Tokens: 309,492

🔍 Missing Tools & MCP Failures

Status: ✅ No missing tools or MCP server failures detected

During the audit period, no workflows reported:

• Missing tool requests
• MCP server connection failures
• Tool availability issues

This indicates the infrastructure and tool ecosystem is stable.

🎯 Recommendations

Immediate Actions (Priority: CRITICAL)

1. Investigate Developer Documentation Consolidator Failures

   • Review logs for the 8 failed runs
   • High token consumption before failure suggests mid-execution errors
   • Check for API rate limits, permission issues, or resource constraints
   • Estimated Recovery: $2.85 in daily savings

2. Fix Activation Issues

   • PR Nitpick Reviewer and Tidy workflows failing at activation
   • 11 combined failures with 0 token usage
   • Check environment setup, dependencies, and permissions
   • Review workflow triggers and activation conditions
   • Impact: Prevents 44% of current failures

3. Implement Failure Detection & Alerts

   • Set up monitoring for workflows with >2 failures in 24 hours
   • Alert on success rate drops below 80%
   • Track cost waste from failures
   • Goal: Detect issues within 6 hours instead of 24 hours

Short-Term Improvements (Priority: HIGH)

4. Add Retry Logic with Exponential Backoff

   • Implement automatic retries for transient failures
   • Add exponential backoff for rate-limited APIs
   • Set maximum retry attempts to prevent infinite loops
   • Expected Impact: Reduce failures by 20-30%

5. Optimize Token Usage Before Failure

   • Add early validation checks before expensive operations
   • Implement circuit breaker patterns for external dependencies
   • Use cheaper models for preliminary checks
   • Expected Savings: $1-2 per day

6. Review Workflow Scheduling

   • November 6th saw 70 runs (14x normal volume)
   • Investigate if this spike was intentional or triggered by cascading events
   • Consider rate limiting or throttling for high-volume periods
   • Goal: Prevent cost spikes and resource contention

Long-Term Enhancements (Priority: MEDIUM)

7. Implement Health Checks

   • Add pre-flight checks before agent execution
   • Validate environment, dependencies, and permissions
   • Fail fast if prerequisites aren't met
   • Impact: Reduce activation failures to near-zero

8. Create Failure Pattern Database

   • Build historical database of failure patterns
   • Use ML/statistical analysis to predict failures
   • Proactively prevent known failure scenarios
   • Store in /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/patterns/

9. Cost Optimization Dashboard

   • Real-time cost tracking per workflow
   • Budget alerts and thresholds
   • Cost attribution by workflow type
   • ROI analysis for agentic workflows

📝 Historical Context

Comparing with previous audit (November 6, 2025):

• Success Rate Change: 84.51% → 60.00% (-24.51pp ⬇️)
• Failure Rate: Increased from 10 to 25 failures (+150% ⬆️)
• Cost per Run: Increased due to higher token consumption
• Volume: Slightly higher activity (71 → 75 runs)

The deterioration in success rates represents a significant regression that requires immediate investigation and remediation.

⏭️ Next Steps

• Debug Developer Documentation Consolidator failures (CRITICAL)
• Fix PR Nitpick Reviewer & Tidy activation issues (HIGH)
• Investigate November 6th volume spike root cause (HIGH)
• Implement failure alerting system (HIGH)
• Add retry logic to top 3 failing workflows (MEDIUM)
• Review and optimize token usage patterns (MEDIUM)
• Create runbook for common failure scenarios (LOW)
• Schedule follow-up audit in 24 hours (LOW)

📂 Data Artifacts

Analysis data saved to cache memory:

• Audit summary: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/2025-11-07.json
• Audit index: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/index.json
• Trend data: Available for 4 days of history

🔑 Key Takeaways

1. Success rate dropped 24.51 percentage points from November 5th to 6th, indicating systematic issues
2. Developer Documentation Consolidator is the primary cost waste source at $2.85/day
3. Activation failures (PR Nitpick Reviewer, Tidy) account for 44% of failures
4. $3.63 wasted on failures represents 21.7% of total daily cost
5. No infrastructure issues detected (missing tools, MCP failures)
6. November 6th volume spike needs investigation (70 runs vs 5-24 average)

🚨 Priority Assessment

SEVERITY: HIGH - Immediate action required to restore success rates to 90%+ baseline. Cost waste of $3.63/day extrapolates to $110/month if not addressed.

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References:

• §19146064258 - Developer Documentation Consolidator failure
• §19144708898 - PR Nitpick Reviewer activation failure
• §19125120617 - Daily Documentation Updater failure

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