diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-coverage-improver.lock.yml b/.github/workflows/test-coverage-improver.lock.yml
index b4952958..9401e2e8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-coverage-improver.lock.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-coverage-improver.lock.yml
@@ -136,15 +136,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
         with:
           persist-credentials: false
-          sparse-checkout: |
-            .github
-            .agents
-            .claude
-            .codex
-            .crush
-            .gemini
-            .opencode
-            .pi
           sparse-checkout-cone-mode: true
           fetch-depth: 1
       - name: Save agent config folders for base branch restoration
@@ -443,8 +434,31 @@ jobs:
         run: bash "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/install_copilot_cli.sh" 1.0.40
         env:
           GH_HOST: github.com
-      - name: Install AWF binary
-        run: bash "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/install_awf_binary.sh" v0.25.29
+      - name: Install awf dependencies
+        run: npm ci
+      - name: Build awf
+        run: npm run build
+      - name: Install awf binary (local)
+        run: |
+          WORKSPACE_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE:-$(pwd)}"
+          NODE_BIN="$(command -v node)"
+          if [ ! -d "$WORKSPACE_PATH" ]; then
+            echo "Workspace path not found: $WORKSPACE_PATH"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          if [ ! -x "$NODE_BIN" ]; then
+            echo "Node binary not found: $NODE_BIN"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          if [ ! -d "/usr/local/bin" ]; then
+            echo "/usr/local/bin is missing"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          sudo tee /usr/local/bin/awf > /dev/null <<EOF
+          #!/bin/bash
+          exec "${NODE_BIN}" "${WORKSPACE_PATH}/dist/cli.js" "\$@"
+          EOF
+          sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/awf
       - name: Determine automatic lockdown mode for GitHub MCP Server
         id: determine-automatic-lockdown
         uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9
@@ -825,7 +839,7 @@ jobs:
           (umask 177 && touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log)
           printf '%s\n' '{"$schema":"https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/releases/download/v0.25.29/awf-config.schema.json","network":{"allowDomains":["*.githubusercontent.com","api.business.githubcopilot.com","api.enterprise.githubcopilot.com","api.github.com","api.githubcopilot.com","api.individual.githubcopilot.com","codeload.github.com","docs.github.com","github-cloud.githubusercontent.com","github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com","github.blog","github.com","github.githubassets.com","host.docker.internal","lfs.github.com","objects.githubusercontent.com","raw.githubusercontent.com","registry.npmjs.org","telemetry.enterprise.githubcopilot.com"]},"apiProxy":{"enabled":true,"models":{"auto":["large"],"deep-research":["copilot/deep-research*","copilot/o3-deep-research*","copilot/o4-mini-deep-research*","google/deep-research*","openai/o3-deep-research*","openai/o4-mini-deep-research*"],"gemini-flash":["copilot/gemini-*flash*","google/gemini-*flash*"],"gemini-pro":["copilot/gemini-*pro*","google/gemini-*pro*"],"gpt-4.1":["copilot/gpt-4.1*","openai/gpt-4.1*"],"gpt-5":["copilot/gpt-5*","openai/gpt-5*"],"gpt-5-codex":["copilot/gpt-5*codex*","openai/gpt-5*codex*"],"gpt-5-mini":["copilot/gpt-5*mini*","openai/gpt-5*mini*"],"gpt-5-nano":["copilot/gpt-5*nano*","openai/gpt-5*nano*"],"gpt-5-pro":["copilot/gpt-5*pro*","openai/gpt-5*pro*"],"haiku":["copilot/*haiku*","anthropic/*haiku*"],"large":["sonnet","gpt-5-pro","gpt-5","gemini-pro"],"mini":["haiku","gpt-5-mini","gpt-5-nano","gemini-flash"],"opus":["copilot/*opus*","anthropic/*opus*"],"reasoning":["copilot/o1*","copilot/o3*","copilot/o4*","openai/o1*","openai/o3*","openai/o4*"],"small":["mini"],"sonnet":["copilot/*sonnet*","anthropic/*sonnet*"]}},"container":{"imageTag":"0.25.29,squid=sha256:8a71ad9e40454051672312917e51567abfb8251d7c294d086c48f63d84e4cb53,agent=sha256:e68f37e36962dcb3f3d1de680a49bc2302cefd001b941a7dc377155ec7ce42f4,agent-act=sha256:97b4cc14dc2123a45b9d5b9927489f66882dec5857de6afc0e5bab257be92ef1,api-proxy=sha256:d1219e4110684402aabbeb5a43858f26790c9d0be210581cf3f7a521bd2c87b6,cli-proxy=sha256:29917488eb90a01ff9544ffeeb5cc26434a8ea16d69ae8972f5f6be0e567e276"}}' > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json" && cp "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json" /tmp/gh-aw/awf-config.json
           # shellcheck disable=SC1003
-          sudo -E awf --config "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json" --container-workdir "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}" --mount "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:ro" --mount "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:/host${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:ro" --env-all --exclude-env COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN --exclude-env GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN --exclude-env MCP_GATEWAY_API_KEY --log-level info --proxy-logs-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs --audit-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit --enable-host-access --allow-host-ports 80,443,8080 --skip-pull \
+          sudo -E awf --config "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json" --container-workdir "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}" --mount "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:ro" --mount "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:/host${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:ro" --env-all --exclude-env COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN --exclude-env GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN --exclude-env MCP_GATEWAY_API_KEY --log-level info --proxy-logs-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs --audit-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit --session-state-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/agent/session-state --enable-host-access --allow-host-ports 80,443,8080 --skip-pull \
             -- /bin/bash -c 'export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="$(find /opt/hostedtoolcache /home/runner/work/_tool -maxdepth 4 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || echo node)"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/copilot_harness.cjs /usr/local/bin/copilot --add-dir /tmp/gh-aw/ --log-level all --log-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/agent/logs/ --disable-builtin-mcps --no-ask-user --allow-tool github --allow-tool safeoutputs --allow-tool '\''shell(cat)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(cat:coverage/coverage-summary.json)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(cat:jest.config.js)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(cat:jest.config.ts)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(cat:src/*.test.ts)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(cat:src/*.ts)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(cat:tests/**)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(date)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(echo)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(git add:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(git branch:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(git checkout:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(git commit:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(git merge:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(git rm:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(git status)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(git switch:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(grep)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(head)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(head:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(ls)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(ls:coverage)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(ls:src)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(ls:tests)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(npm run build)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(npm run lint)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(npm run test)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(npm run test:coverage)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(pwd)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(safeoutputs:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(sort)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(tail)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(tail:*)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(uniq)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(wc)'\'' --allow-tool '\''shell(yq)'\'' --allow-tool write --allow-all-paths --add-dir "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}" --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log
         env:
           AWF_REFLECT_ENABLED: 1
@@ -873,7 +887,16 @@ jobs:
       - name: Copy Copilot session state files to logs
         if: always()
         continue-on-error: true
-        run: bash "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/copy_copilot_session_state.sh"
+        run: |
+          SESSION_STATE_SRC="/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/agent/session-state"
+          LOGS_DIR="/tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/agent/logs"
+          if [ -d "$SESSION_STATE_SRC" ] && [ -n "$(ls -A "$SESSION_STATE_SRC" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
+            mkdir -p "$LOGS_DIR/session-state"
+            cp -rp "$SESSION_STATE_SRC/." "$LOGS_DIR/session-state/"
+            echo "Copied session state to $LOGS_DIR/session-state"
+          else
+            echo "No session state found at $SESSION_STATE_SRC"
+          fi
       - name: Stop MCP Gateway
         if: always()
         continue-on-error: true