Add noop safe output guidance to workflow creation prompts#12451
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Add noop safe output guidance to workflow creation prompts#12451
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[WIP] Update agent workflow to log noop when no output needed
Add noop safe output guidance to workflow creation prompts
Jan 29, 2026
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Agents need to signal successful completion when no action is required. Without explicit guidance, agents may fail silently or appear to have not executed, making it unclear whether the workflow ran at all.
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noopsafe output guidance tocreate-agentic-workflow.mdin three locations:noopalongsidecreate-issue,add-comment, andcreate-pull-requestwith emphasis on transparencyRationale
The
noopsafe output exists per the safe-outputs specification (Section 5.3) but was undocumented in workflow creation guidance. This creates a transparency gap: workflows that analyze but don't modify (e.g., triage workflows finding no issues, compliance checks passing) need to log completion explicitly.Both
.github/aw/andpkg/cli/templates/versions updated identically.Original prompt
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