🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - December 22, 2025

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Audit Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours (Dec 21-22, 2025)
• Runs Analyzed: 65
• Workflows Active: 24 unique workflows
• Success Rate: 76.9% (50 successful, 9 failed, 2 cancelled, 4 in-progress)
• Total Token Usage: 31.1M tokens
• Total Cost: $7.50
• Average Cost per Run: $0.12

📊 Trend Analysis

Workflow Health Trends

The workflow health chart shows a strong 76.9% success rate across the 65 runs analyzed in the last 24 hours. The mix of green (success) and red (failure) bars provides a clear visual of daily workflow health, with the blue line tracking the success rate percentage over time.

Token Usage & Cost Trends

Token usage (purple area) and cost trends (orange line) show the daily operational expenses, with a 7-day moving average (dashed red line) providing a smoothed view of spending patterns. Total spend of $7.50 across 31M tokens demonstrates efficient resource utilization.

Missing Tools Analysis

10 unique tools were requested but unavailable:

Tool Name	Request Count	Workflows Affected	Reason
safeinputs-gh CLI tool	1	Smoke Claude	Required to test safe input gh tool access as specified in test requirements
Build tools (make, go) in agentic execution environment	1	Hourly CI Cleaner	The workflow setup steps run in a different environment than the agentic execution step
Build tools (make, Go compiler)	1	Hourly CI Cleaner	Cannot run CI cleanup tasks (fmt, lint, test, recompile) without make and Go
Go toolchain, make, and npm dependencies	1	Tidy	Required to run make fmt, make lint, make recompile, and make test commands
Go toolchain and make command	1	Tidy	Required for make fmt, make lint, and make test commands
System commands (systemctl, service)	1	Smoke Copilot No Firewall	Cannot control squid firewall service without systemctl or service commands
Node.js dependencies (git-url-parse, zod)	1	AI Moderator	Required to parse URLs and validate data schemas
@octokit/plugin-retry npm package	1	AI Moderator	Required to add retry capability to Octokit
squid-deb-proxy-client package	1	Smoke Codex	Required to install and configure Squid proxy for firewall testing
go, make, npm (build toolchain)	1	Tidy	Required to run tidying commands

Key Findings:

• Build toolchain access is the most common missing tool category (5/10 requests)
• Tools are primarily needed for CI/CD operations (formatting, linting, testing)
• Environment isolation between setup and execution steps causes tool availability issues
• Test workflows (Smoke tests) frequently encounter missing dependencies

Error Analysis

778 total errors and 516 warnings were detected across runs.

Top Error Patterns:

1. Optional include file not found (41 occurrences)

   • Workflow: Sub-Issue Closer
   • Message: githubnext/agentics/agentics/build-tools.md@f2322bb not found
   • Impact: Configuration file missing but marked as optional

2. Environment variable required (41 occurrences)

   • Workflow: Sub-Issue Closer
   • Message: GH_AW_WORKFLOW_ID environment variable is required
   • Impact: Workflow compilation issue affecting safe_outputs job

3. Log file not found (14 occurrences)

   • Workflows: Multiple (Tidy, CI Cleaner, Dev, Dev Hawk, Release, Malicious Code Scan)
   • Message: not found: ${logPath}
   • Impact: Log reading failures during workflow execution

4. Gateway configuration error (10 occurrences)

   • Workflow: Smoke Codex Firewall
   • Message: failed to read gateway configuration: /tmp/missing.json
   • Impact: MCP server startup failures

Critical Issues:

• Sub-Issue Closer workflow experiencing persistent configuration problems (82 total errors)
• Smoke Codex Firewall has repeated gateway configuration failures
• Log path resolution issues affecting multiple workflows

MCP Server Failures

No MCP server failures detected in the audit period. All MCP servers started successfully when invoked.

Firewall Analysis

• Total Firewall Requests: 0 (no firewall logs collected)
• Allowed Requests: 0
• Denied Requests: 0

Note: Firewall logging may not be enabled for all workflows, or no network requests were made during the audit period.

Performance Metrics

• Average Token Usage: 478,903 tokens per run
• Total Cost (24h): $7.50
• Highest Token Usage: Instructions Janitor (2.2M tokens, $1.20)
• Average Turns: 4.3 turns per run (282 total turns / 65 runs)

Most Active Workflows:

1. Tidy: 9 runs
2. Changeset Generator: 7 runs
3. AI Moderator: 6 runs
4. Issue Monster: 6 runs
5. Hourly CI Cleaner: 6 runs

Failed Workflows:

1. Instructions Janitor: 2 failures (39 turns, $1.20 cost)
2. Sub-Issue Closer: 1 failure
3. Daily Project Performance Summary Generator: 1 failure
4. Dev: 1 failure
5. Schema Consistency Checker: 1 failure
6. Others: 3 additional failures

Recommendations

1. Address Build Toolchain Availability

Priority: High

• Investigate why build tools (Go, make, npm) are not available in the agentic execution environment
• Consider pre-installing common build tools in the agent container image
• Document which tools are available in each execution environment

2. Fix Sub-Issue Closer Configuration

Priority: High

• Resolve the missing GH_AW_WORKFLOW_ID environment variable issue
• Add proper error handling for optional configuration files
• Review workflow compilation logic for safe_outputs job

3. Standardize Log Path Resolution

Priority: Medium

• Implement consistent log path handling across all workflows
• Add validation to ensure log files exist before attempting to read
• Consider using absolute paths or environment-based path resolution

4. Improve Smoke Codex Firewall Reliability

Priority: Medium

• Fix gateway configuration file generation
• Add proper validation before MCP server startup
• Consider adding retry logic for configuration file creation

5. Enable Firewall Logging

Priority: Low

• Enable firewall request logging for all workflows using network access
• This will provide better visibility into external API usage and potential security issues

6. Monitor Instructions Janitor Workflow

Priority: Medium

• The workflow had 2 failures with high token usage (2.2M tokens, $1.20)
• Review the failure causes and optimize token usage if possible
• Consider adding timeout or token limit safeguards

Historical Context

This is the first automated audit since the Agentic Workflow Audit Agent was activated. Future audits will include:

• Week-over-week comparisons
• Trend analysis across multiple audit periods
• Pattern detection for recurring issues
• Cost optimization recommendations based on historical data

Next Steps

• Store audit results in cache memory (/tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/2025-12-22.json)
• Update audit index with latest findings
• Generate and upload trend charts
• Investigate and fix Sub-Issue Closer configuration issues
• Propose build toolchain availability improvements
• Schedule next audit for December 23, 2025

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References:

• §20421266214 - Current Audit Run
• §20421203441 - Instructions Janitor Failure
• §20420316679 - Instructions Janitor Failure

AI generated by Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

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