[safe-output-health] Safe Output Health Report - 2026-07-13

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🏥 Safe Output Health Report - 2026-07-13

Executive Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours (~2026-07-12T05:20Z → 2026-07-13T05:20Z)
• Runs Analyzed: 63
• Workflows Active: 40+ distinct workflows
• Safe Output Jobs Executed: 62 (1 run had no safe_outputs job)
• Safe Output Jobs Failed: 0
• Error Clusters Identified: 0 new; 0 in-scope failures

Verdict: FULLY CLEAN read-only day. All 62 safe_outputs jobs succeeded (100%). Zero safe-output messages were actuated this window (every run SafeItemsCount=0), so the safe_outputs jobs ran as clean no-op passes. The 8 run-level failures are all out-of-scope agent-job failures whose downstream safe_outputs jobs succeeded via clean handoff. The 2026-07-11 firewall safe_outputs hard-failure did not recur.

Safe Output Job Statistics

Metric	Value
Runs with a safe_outputs job	62 / 63
safe_outputs jobs succeeded	62 (100%)
safe_outputs jobs non-success (failure/cancelled/timed_out/skipped)	0
Safe-output messages actuated	0
Failed message actuations	0
Noop / MissingTool / MissingData counts	0 / 0 / 0 (all runs)

No per-handler breakdown table is shown because no handler was invoked — the window was entirely read-only (no create_issue, add_comment, create_discussion, create_pull_request, etc. emitted).

Error Clusters

None. No safe_outputs job in any of the 63 runs reported a non-success conclusion, and no safe-output message failed actuation. There are no error clusters to report for this window.

Root Cause Analysis

• API-Related Issues: None observed in safe-output jobs.
• Data Validation Issues: None — no messages were emitted to validate.
• Permission Issues: None in safe-output jobs this window (contrast: the recurring smoke discussions:write scope defect was not exercised — smoke workflows ran read-only).
• Logic Errors: None.

Out-of-scope run-level failures (agent job — not safe-output health)

All 8 run-level failures failed inside the agent job (e.g. "Execute GitHub Copilot CLI"), not the safe-output job. Each one's safe_outputs job still concluded success via clean handoff:

8 agent-job failures (out of scope), all with safe_outputs=success

Run	Workflow	agent job	safe_outputs job
§29224916843	Documentation Noob Tester	failure	✅ success
§29217689845	Smoke CI	failure	✅ success
§29223779935	Smoke CI	failure	✅ success
§29221770644	Smoke CI	failure	✅ success
§29222776537	Smoke CI	failure	✅ success
§29225869574	Smoke Copilot Small	failure	✅ success
§29222936096	Smoke Copilot Small	failure	✅ success
§29223769421	Code Simplifier	failure	✅ success

These are handled by other monitoring workflows (agent-job failures). Documentation Noob Tester and Code Simplifier are recurring agent-side failures seen on prior audit days; the clean handoff to safe_outputs continues to work as designed.

Recommendations

Critical Issues (Immediate Action Required)

None. No in-scope safe-output failures this window.

Standing Open (carried from prior audits — none regressed, none validated today)

These are latent production/smoke signatures that were present-but-read-only or absent this window, so none were re-exercised. They remain open pending a write-active window:

1. Changeset Generator patch-format:BUNDLE bundle-transport — Priority: High

   • Changeset Generator ran twice (§29222894093, §29225835853) but read-only — the push_to_pull_request_branch BUNDLE path did not actuate. Last actuating occurrence ~2026-06-26 (~17 days). Highest-priority open signature; still UNVALIDATED (no hard failure this window).

2. Daily Firewall Logs Collector — create_discussion not wired — Priority: Medium

   • This was the 2026-07-11 headline hard-failure (prompt instructs create_discussion category "audits" but the compiled allowlist lacked a create_discussion handler). The workflow ran again today (§29221262214) with safe_outputs=success (read-only) — the hardfail did not recur, but the prompt-vs-config reconciliation remains unvalidated because the discussion path wasn't exercised. Recommend still reconciling daily-firewall-report.md Step 6 against the compiled safe-outputs allowlist.

3. review_path_unresolved_422 Path-variant fallback (pr_review_buffer.cjs:554) — Priority: Medium

   • PR reviewers were present (Matt Pocock ×2, PR Code Quality Reviewer ×2, Test Quality Sentinel ×2, Impeccable Skills Reviewer, Contribution Check) but all read-only — no line-anchored create_pull_request_review_comment emitted. Path-variant fix UNVALIDATED for the 45th consecutive audit.

4. Smoke target:'*' family (review-comment no-PR-number; add_comment→discussion permission; add_labels no-context) — Priority: Low/Smoke-only

   • Smoke Claude (§29222894214) and Smoke Copilot (§29222934137) ran read-only; the target:'*' paths were not emitted. Clusters latent, remain open.

5. LintMonster update_issue target:'*' fix — Priority: Low

   • LintMonster ran (§29222241142) but found no lint issues (read-only). The 2026-06-11 target:'triggering' hardfail did not recur but was not re-exercised; fix still unvalidated.

Process / Observability Improvements

1. Pre-bundle Process Safe Outputs step stdout on failure — Recurring observability gap (07-11 firewall, 06-23/06-26 Changeset Generator). On the days a safe_outputs job hard-fails, the exact step error is not recoverable from pre-bundled artifacts. No failure to diagnose today, but the gap remains worth closing before the next hardfail.
2. SafeItemsCount aggregator undercount — Tracked since 2026-05-31. Today is genuinely read-only (Noop/MissingTool/MissingData all 0), so no undercount ambiguity, but the metric should not be relied on alone for message counts.

Work Item Plans

Work Item 1: Reconcile Daily Firewall Logs Collector prompt vs safe-outputs allowlist

• Type: Bug Fix (config/prompt drift)
• Priority: Medium
• Description: The 07-11 hardfail exposed that the workflow's prompt instructs create_discussion while the compiled allowlist wires only upload_asset/noop/missing_tool/missing_data. It did not recur today only because the run stayed read-only.
• Acceptance Criteria:
  • Either add create-discussion (category: audits) to the workflow frontmatter and recompile the lock, or change the report step to a wired output (e.g. upload_asset).
  • Re-run and confirm safe_outputs job success with the discussion/report actually actuated.
• Effort: Small

Work Item 2: Close the Process-Safe-Outputs failure observability gap

• Type: Enhancement (observability)
• Priority: Medium
• Description: On safe_outputs job failure, the Process Safe Outputs step stdout/stderr is not pre-bundled, making exact-error diagnosis impossible (3+ prior occurrences).
• Acceptance Criteria:
  • Persist Process Safe Outputs step logs to the run artifact bundle on failure.
  • Verify the exact error is readable in a subsequent hardfail audit.
• Effort: Small/Medium

Work Item 3: Exercise the Changeset BUNDLE transport path

• Type: Investigation / Validation
• Priority: High (longest-latent open signature)
• Description: The patch-format:BUNDLE push_to_pull_request_branch path has not actuated in ~17 days, so the prior bundle-transport hardfail remains unvalidated.
• Acceptance Criteria:
  • Trigger Changeset Generator on a PR that produces a bundle patch.
  • Confirm push_to_pull_request_branch succeeds (or capture the exact error if it fails).
• Effort: Small

Historical Context

Date	Runs	SO jobs failed	Messages	Success	Note
2026-07-13 (today)	63	0	0	100%	Fully clean, read-only
2026-07-12	54	0	91	100%	Clean + write-rich
2026-07-11	15	1	0	93.3%	Firewall create_discussion-not-wired hardfail
2026-07-10	38	0	48	100%	Clean + write-rich

Trends

• Error rate trend: Stable at 0 in-scope failures (07-11 was the only recent break; 07-12 and 07-13 both clean).
• Recovery: The 07-11 firewall safe_outputs hardfail did not recur today — the workflow ran again with safe_outputs=success.
• Actuation cadence: Alternating write-rich (07-10, 07-12) and read-only (07-11, 07-13) windows — a function of which scheduled workflows land in each early-morning batch, not a health signal.

Metrics and KPIs

• Overall Safe Output Success Rate: 100% (62/62 jobs)
• Most Reliable Job Type: All handlers (0 failures; none exercised this window)
• Most Problematic Job Type: None this window
• In-scope safe-output failures: 0

Next Steps

• No immediate action required for safe-output health — window is clean.
• Reconcile Daily Firewall Logs Collector prompt vs safe-outputs allowlist (Work Item 1) before it next runs write-active.
• Pre-bundle Process Safe Outputs step logs on failure (Work Item 2).
• Watch for a write-active window to finally validate the Changeset BUNDLE path (~17 days latent) and the review_path_422 Path-variant fallback (45th audit unvalidated).

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Analysis Notes

• Analysis is scoped to safe-output job health only; agent-job and detection-job failures are out of scope (handled by other monitors).
• Source: 63 pre-downloaded run summaries in /tmp/gh-aw/aw-mcp/logs; safe_outputs job conclusions read authoritatively from each run's run_summary.json job_details[]. Only the usage artifact was pre-bundled, so exact per-message step logs were not independently available — but no messages were emitted this window and every job concluded success.
• Findings persisted to cache memory: safe-output-health/2026-07-13.json + index.json.

References:

• §29224916843 — Documentation Noob Tester (agent fail, safe_outputs success)
• §29221262214 — Daily Firewall Logs Collector (07-11 headline; safe_outputs success today)
• §29222894093 — Changeset Generator (present, read-only)

Warning

Firewall blocked 1 domain

The following domain was blocked by the firewall during workflow execution:

• awmgmcpg

To allow these domains, add them to the network.allowed list in your workflow frontmatter:

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "awmgmcpg"

See Network Configuration for more information.

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• expires on Jul 13, 2026, 9:36 PM UTC-08:00