🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - 2026-02-07

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Audit Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours (2026-02-07)
• Runs Analyzed: 50 workflow runs
• Total Duration: 4.9 hours
• Workflows Active: 55 workflows with compiled status
• Success Rate: 72.7% (40 success, 6 failures, 4 cancelled/in-progress)
• Issues Found: 5 errors, 1 missing tool, 1 missing data issue

📊 Trend Analysis

Workflow Health Trends

Today's workflow execution shows 40 successful runs and 6 failures, achieving a 72.7% success rate. The majority of workflows completed successfully, with failures concentrated in specific workflows.

Token Usage and Cost Trends

Total token consumption reached 36.9M tokens with an estimated cost of $6.02. Notable spike from Smoke Codex workflow which consumed 15.8M tokens in a single run.

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⚠️ Missing Tools

Tool Name	Request Count	Workflows Affected	Issue
bash/shell execution	1	Daily Workflow Updater	Permission denied for all bash invocations, preventing command execution

Impact: The Daily Workflow Updater §21779197565 cannot execute the gh aw update command or check for action updates due to bash permission restrictions.

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❌ Error Analysis

Critical Errors

Security Guard Agent - 4 failures across multiple PRs:

• §21780787684 on PR copilot/standardize-error-wrapping
• §21780706370 on PR copilot/normalize-report-formatting-again
• §21780681085 on PR copilot/refactor-expired-entity-cleanup
• §21780647470 on PR copilot/fix-cmd-tests-nondeterminism

Pattern: All Security Guard failures occurred within a 2-hour window (13:13-13:25 UTC), suggesting a transient issue rather than systematic problems.

Chroma Issue Indexer - 1 failure:

• §21779860896 - 21.7 minute runtime before failure

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📊 Performance Metrics

• Average Token Usage: 738,922 tokens per run (for runs with token data)
• Total Cost (24h): $6.02
• Highest Cost Workflows:
  • Developer Documentation Consolidator: $2.17 (1.97M tokens)
  • Daily Code Metrics: $1.84 (1.45M tokens)
  • Copilot Session Insights: $0.98 (848K tokens)
  • CLI Version Checker: $1.02 (652K tokens)
• Average Turns: 3.3 turns per workflow (for workflows with turn data)

Top Token Consumers

Workflow	Tokens	Notes
Smoke Codex	15.9M	Single run consumed 43% of daily tokens
CI Failure Doctor	6.0M	Across 3 runs
Developer Documentation Consolidator	2.0M	High-quality documentation work
Daily Code Metrics	1.5M	Comprehensive codebase analysis

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🚨 Missing Data Issues

Copilot Session Insights - §21779587315

Data Needed: Copilot agent session conversation transcripts (user prompts, agent responses, tool calls)

Impact: Cannot perform behavioral pattern analysis, prompt quality assessment, or identify success factors without actual conversation data. Only GitHub Actions infrastructure logs are available.

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🎯 Affected Workflows

View All Affected Workflows (6 total)

1. Security Guard Agent - 4 failures

   • Needs investigation for transient failure pattern

2. Daily Workflow Updater - Missing tool (bash)

   • Cannot perform updates due to permission restrictions

3. Copilot Session Insights - Missing data

   • Requires conversation transcript access

4. Chroma Issue Indexer - 1 failure

   • 21.7 minute timeout/failure

5. CI Failure Doctor - 1 cancellation

   • §21780761048 cancelled after 4.1 minutes

6. Test Workflow - 5 cancellations

   • Multiple test workflow runs cancelled (likely intentional testing)

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💡 Recommendations

1. Investigate Security Guard Agent failures

   • 4 failures within 2-hour window suggests transient issue
   • Review logs for common error patterns
   • Consider adding retry logic or better error handling

2. Resolve bash permission issue in Daily Workflow Updater

   • Grant necessary permissions for bash tool execution
   • Or refactor to use alternative tool/approach
   • Critical for keeping workflows up-to-date

3. Add conversation transcript access for Copilot Session Insights

   • Current implementation cannot access required data
   • Consider alternative data sources or workflow redesign

4. Monitor high token usage in Smoke Codex

   • 15.8M tokens in single run (43% of daily total)
   • Review for optimization opportunities
   • Consider breaking into smaller tasks if appropriate

5. Review Chroma Issue Indexer timeout

   • 21.7 minute runtime before failure
   • May need increased timeout or performance optimization

6. Audit cancelled Test Workflow runs

   • 5 cancellations may indicate testing patterns
   • Ensure cancellations are intentional

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📈 Historical Context

This is the first automated audit using the new Agentic Workflow Audit Agent. Future audits will include trend comparisons and pattern analysis across multiple days.

Audit data saved to: memory/audit-workflows/audits/2026-02-07.json

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✅ Next Steps

• Investigate Security Guard Agent failure pattern (4 failures in 2 hours)
• Grant bash execution permissions to Daily Workflow Updater
• Review Smoke Codex token usage optimization opportunities
• Add conversation transcript access for Copilot Session Insights
• Investigate Chroma Issue Indexer timeout issue

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References:

• §21779197565 - Daily Workflow Updater (bash permission issue)
• §21779587315 - Copilot Session Insights (missing data)
• §21780787684 - Security Guard failure example

AI generated by Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

• expires on Feb 14, 2026, 1:33 PM UTC

[pelikhan]

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Plan Complete ✅

I've analyzed the audit report and created 5 actionable sub-issues to address the key findings:

Issues Created

1. Investigate and Fix Security Guard Agent Transient Failures - Analyze the pattern of 4 failures in a 2-hour window and implement retry logic/error handling

2. Grant Bash Execution Permissions to Daily Workflow Updater - Fix permission denied errors preventing bash command execution

3. Optimize Smoke Codex Token Usage - Reduce the 15.9M token consumption (43% of daily total) through targeted optimizations

4. Fix Chroma Issue Indexer Timeout Issue - Investigate and resolve the 21.7 minute runtime failure through timeout adjustment or performance optimization

5. Add Conversation Transcript Access for Copilot Session Insights - Enable access to Copilot agent conversation data or redesign workflow to work with available data

All issues are now ready to be assigned to GitHub Copilot agents for execution. They'll be automatically grouped under a parent tracking issue for easy progress monitoring.

Not Included

• Test Workflow cancellations - Likely intentional testing behavior, not requiring immediate action
• CI Failure Doctor cancellation - Single cancellation doesn't indicate a pattern

The created issues address the most critical problems identified in the audit report, prioritizing workflows that are currently blocked or consuming excessive resources.