Fix Serena MCP tools configuration in smoke-copilot workflow

[Claude]

The smoke-copilot workflow was reporting "Tools not available in this agent context" for Serena MCP tests (serena-activate_project, serena-find_symbol), causing a partial test failure (8/9 tests passing).

Root Cause

Incorrect tool configuration syntax:

# ❌ Non-standard nested format (broken)
tools:
  serena:
    languages:
      go: {}

This nested structure prevented the workflow compiler from properly registering Serena tools in the agent context.

Fix

Changed to standard array format used by all other workflows:

# ✅ Correct array format
tools:
  serena: ["go"]

Changes

• smoke-copilot.md: Replace nested languages structure with array format (lines 44-46)
• smoke-copilot.lock.yml: Regenerated via gh aw compile (frontmatter hash updated)

This aligns with duplicate-code-detector, smoke-codex, test-improver, and test-coverage-improver workflows which all use the array format and have working Serena tool access.

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• https://api.github.com/graphql
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/gh gh pr view 1195 --json title,body,files /home/REDACTED/.nvm/install.sh /home/REDACTED/.nvm/nvm-exec /home/REDACTED/.nvm/nvm.sh /home/REDACTED/.nvm/package.json /home/REDACTED/.nvm/rename_test.sh /home/REDACTED/.nvm/test conf�� get --global cal/bin/git user.email (http block)
• https://api.github.com/repos/docker/setup-buildx-action/git/ref/tags/v3
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/gh gh api /repos/docker/setup-buildx-action/git/ref/tags/v3 --jq .object.sha d -n 10 HEAD /usr/bin/tail vailable ena-mcp-tests/MC-d ndor/bin/grep tail -1 /usr/bin/sed grep t vailable ena-mcp-tests/RE-d cal/bin/grep base64 (http block)
• https://api.github.com/repos/github/gh-aw/git/ref/tags/v0.47.4
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/gh gh api /repos/github/gh-aw/git/ref/tags/v0.47.4 --jq .object.sha d -n 10 HEAD /usr/bin/tail vailable ena-mcp-tests/MC-d cal/bin/grep tf "%s%s", sep, $0; sep=RS } -n 1 grep nfig/composer/vendor/bin/git vailable .md rgo/bin/grep base64 (http block)

If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:

• Configure Actions setup steps to set up my environment, which run before the firewall is enabled
• Add the appropriate URLs or hosts to the custom allowlist in this repository's Copilot coding agent settings (admins only)

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Smoke Test: Copilot - 22243401416</issue_title>
<issue_description>## Smoke Test Results

Test	Status
GitHub MCP - Last 2 merged PRs	✅ PR #1195 "Fix Serena MCP test tool discovery in smoke test workflow", PR #1186 "Eliminate duplicate code in server HTTP endpoint registration"
Safe Inputs GH CLI - 2 PRs	✅ PR #1196 "[WIP] Refactor semantic function clustering for code organization"
Serena MCP - activate_project + find_symbol	❌ Tools not available in this agent context
Make Build	✅ make build succeeded, awmg binary produced
Playwright - github.com title	✅ Title contains "GitHub"
File Writing	✅ /tmp/gh-aw/agent/smoke-test-copilot-22243401416.txt created
Bash Tool	✅ File read back successfully
Discussion Interaction	✅ Comment added to discussion #45
Agentic Workflows MCP Status	✅ smoke-copilot: compiled=Yes, triggers=PR/reaction/schedule

Overall Status: ⚠️ PARTIAL PASS (8/9 tests passed, Serena tools unavailable)

Run URL: https://github.com/github/gh-aw-mcpg/actions/runs/22243401416
Timestamp: 2026-02-20T22:21 UTC

📰 BREAKING: Report filed by Smoke Copilot

• expires on Feb 21, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC

<agent_instructions>Figure out why serena is not passing</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @claude[agent] in this section)

• Fixes Smoke Test: Copilot - 22243401416 #1198

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR fixes the Serena MCP tools availability issue in the smoke-copilot workflow by correcting the tool configuration format from an incorrect nested structure to the standard array format used throughout the codebase.

Changes:

• Changed Serena tool configuration from nested format serena: { languages: { go: {} } } to array format serena: ["go"] in smoke-copilot.md
• Recompiled the workflow to update the lock file with the new configuration hash

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File	Description
.github/workflows/smoke-copilot.md	Fixed Serena tool configuration from nested format to array format, consistent with all other workflows
.github/workflows/smoke-copilot.lock.yml	Updated frontmatter_hash to reflect the configuration change after recompilation

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