⚠️ Daily News - Intermittent Failures (40% Success Rate)

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Daily News - Intermittent Workflow Failures

Status Summary

Priority: P2 - HIGH
Success Rate: 40% (4 success / 6 failures in last 10 runs)
Health Score: 40/100 ⚠️
Impact: Daily digest delivery inconsistent, users missing repository updates

Failure Pattern

Recent Runs (Intermittent)

• Run Add --before and --after time filtering with relative time support to gh aw inspect #103: Failed on 2026-01-15 - https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/21025829982
• Run [copilot] update gh aw inspect time filter (--before, --after) to support relative time (-24) #102: Failed on 2026-01-14 - https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/20988673480
• Run Implement goccy/go-yaml with line offset support for frontmatter error reporting #101: Failed on 2026-01-13 - https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/20951135921
• Run [copilot] yaml syntax errors with location #100: Failed on 2026-01-12 - https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/20913901067
• Run Add --engine filter to gh aw logs command #99: Failed on 2026-01-09 - https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/20846973162

Pattern: 6 failures in last 10 runs, intermittent (not consecutive)

Impact Assessment

User Impact

• Daily Digest: Users not receiving daily repository activity summaries
• Visibility: Missing updates on issues, PRs, discussions, and workflow runs
• Engagement: Reduced team awareness of repository activity

Scheduling Impact

• Trigger: Weekday schedule (Mon-Fri at 9am UTC)
• Coverage: Business days only (Sat-Sun excluded)
• Frequency: Once per day when working

Configuration Analysis

Workflow: .github/workflows/daily-news.md

engine: copilot
timeout-minutes: 30
tracker-id: daily-news-weekday

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - python
    - node

sandbox:
  agent: awf  # Firewall enabled

tools:
  repo-memory:
    branch-name: memory/daily-news
    file-glob: ["memory/daily-news/*.json", "*.jsonl", "*.csv", "*.md"]
    max-file-size: 102400  # 100KB
  edit:
  bash: ["*"]
  web-fetch:

safe-outputs:
  upload-asset:
  create-discussion:
    expires: 3d
    category: "daily-news"
    max: 1
    close-older-discussions: true

Known Issues

Previous Reports

• Issue [P1] Daily News Workflow Timeout Failures - 50% Success Rate #9899: Reported as open with timeout issues
• Error Pattern: Exit code 7 (timeout) mentioned in previous analysis
• Similar to: CI Doctor timeout issues (which were resolved)

Timeout Pattern Analysis

• Configuration: 30-minute timeout (reduced from 45 minutes)
• Note: "Reduced from 45 since pre-fetching data is faster"
• CI Doctor Fix: Successfully resolved similar timeout issues
• Opportunity: Apply CI Doctor's fix to Daily News

Investigation Required

Immediate Actions

1. Review Issue [P1] Daily News Workflow Timeout Failures - 50% Success Rate #9899 - Check current status and investigation progress
2. Analyze timeout patterns - Determine if exceeding 30-minute limit
3. Check pre-fetch logic - Verify if data pre-downloading works correctly
4. Test network access - Validate firewall and network permissions
5. Compare with CI Doctor - Apply similar timeout resolution approach

Likely Root Causes

• ✅ Timeout exceeding 30 minutes
• ✅ Network connectivity issues (firewall restrictions)
• ✅ Repo-memory access delays
• ✅ GitHub API rate limiting
• ✅ Pre-fetch logic not optimized
• ✅ Tool invocation overhead

Recommended Fix Approach

Short-term (Immediate)

1. Increase timeout back to 45 minutes temporarily
2. Monitor run duration to establish baseline
3. Check pre-fetch effectiveness - Verify it actually speeds up execution
4. Test without firewall to isolate network issues

Long-term (Optimization)

1. Apply CI Doctor fix - Use similar timeout resolution strategy
2. Optimize data collection - Reduce API calls and tool invocations
3. Improve caching - Better use of repo-memory for historical data
4. Parallel processing - Fetch data concurrently where possible

Success Criteria

• Workflow runs successfully with >80% success rate
• No timeout errors (runs complete within 30 minutes)
• Daily digest delivered consistently on weekdays
• Discussion created with repository activity summary
• Asset uploaded with detailed news data

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Related Issue: #9899
Workflow Run: https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/21053929777
Generated: 2026-01-16T02:53:12Z
Generated by: Workflow Health Manager

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