Filter noise from logs command output

[Copilot]

The logs command output was cluttered with repetitive progress messages, debug logs, JSON fragments, and invalid tool names, making it difficult to identify actionable information.

Changes

Progress messages

• Suppressed per-iteration "✓ Fetched X workflow runs" messages
• Suppressed per-batch "✓ Processed X/Y runs successfully" messages
• Added concise final summary with key metrics

Error/warning table

• Filter debug/validation logs: validation completed, executePromptDirectly
• Filter JSON fragments: "errorCodesToRetry", "description":
• Filter MCP server logs: [mcp server safeoutputs stderr]
• Filter Squid proxy logs: ::1:56072 - -:- 0.0 NONE_NONE:HIER_NONE
• Filter tool invocation results (outputs, not errors)
• Limit to top 20 most common errors

Tool usage table

• Filter common words: calls, to, for, Testing, multiple, launches
• Filter single characters and empty names: -, a
• Validate tool names match expected patterns (underscores, hyphens, camelCase)

Example

Before:

✓ Fetched 6 workflow runs
✓ Processed 1/6 runs successfully
✓ Fetched 3 workflow runs
✓ Processed 0/3 runs successfully
...

## Tool Usage Summary
│calls       │34│2│0 B│N/A│
│to          │4 │2│0 B│N/A│
│Testing     │4 │2│0 B│N/A│

## Errors and Warnings
│Error│validation completed successfully│1│
│Error│"errorCodesToRetry": []          │2│
│Error│[safeoutputs] send: {"jsonrpc"..│2│

After:

## Tool Usage Summary
│github_search_issues│5│2│1.2 KB│450ms│
│bash                │3│1│  512 B│  2.1s│

## Errors and Warnings
│Error│failed to get user: 403 Forbidden│2│
│Error│Permission denied accessing repo │1│

✓ Downloaded 2 workflow logs to .github/aw/logs
  • 4 errors, 2 warnings across 2 runs
  • 2 unique tools used

Implementation

Added isActionableError() and isValidToolName() filters in pkg/cli/logs_report.go. Modified progress message handling in logs_github_api.go and logs_orchestrator.go.

Original prompt

Review the output of the "logs" command and make it clearer, more concise, better.

@pelikhan ➜ /workspaces/gh-aw (main) $ ./gh-aw logs -c 2 smoke-copilot
✓ Fetched 6 workflow runs
✓ Downloaded artifacts for run 20700990762
✓ Processed 1/6 runs successfully
✓ Fetched 3 workflow runs
✓ Processed 0/3 runs successfully
✓ Fetched 3 workflow runs
✓ Processed 0/3 runs successfully
✓ Fetched 3 workflow runs
✓ Processed 0/3 runs successfully
✓ Fetched 3 workflow runs
✓ Processed 0/3 runs successfully
✓ Fetched 3 workflow runs
✓ Processed 1/3 runs successfully
## Workflow Logs Summary

  Total Runs         : 2
  Total Duration     : 5.7m
  Total Tokens       : 0
  Total Cost         : 0
  Total Turns        : 13
  Total Errors       : 67
  Total Warnings     : 23
  Total Missing Tools: 0

## Workflow Logs Overview

┌───────────┬─────────────┬─────┬─────────┬────────┬──────┬────────┬─────┬──────┬────────┬───────┬───────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│Run ID     │Workflow     │Agent│Status   │Duration│Tokens│Cost ($)│Turns│Errors│Warnings│Missing│Created            │Logs Path                      │
├───────────┼─────────────┼─────┼─────────┼────────┼──────┼────────┼─────┼──────┼────────┼───────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│20700990762│Smoke Copilot│-    │completed│2.6m    │0     │0       │6    │39    │15      │0      │2026-01-04 23:47:19│.github/aw/logs/run-20700990762│
│20696085597│Smoke Copilot│-    │completed│3.1m    │0     │0       │7    │28    │8       │0      │2026-01-04 16:50:41│.github/aw/logs/run-20696085597│
└───────────┴─────────────┴─────┴─────────┴────────┴──────┴────────┴─────┴──────┴────────┴───────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
## 🛠️  Tool Usage Summary

┌────────────┬───────────┬────┬──────────┬────────────┐
│Tool        │Total Calls│Runs│Max Output│Max Duration│
├────────────┼───────────┼────┼──────────┼────────────┤
│calls       │34         │2   │0 B       │N/A         │
│to          │4          │2   │0 B       │N/A         │
│Testing     │4          │2   │0 B       │N/A         │
│-           │2          │1   │0 B       │N/A         │
│create_issue│2          │1   │0 B       │N/A         │
│add_comment │2          │1   │0 B       │N/A         │
│add_labels  │2          │1   │0 B       │N/A         │
│for         │2          │2   │0 B       │N/A         │
│multiple    │2          │2   │0 B       │N/A         │
│launches    │2          │2   │0 B       │N/A         │
│command     │2          │2   │0 B       │N/A         │
│invocation  │2          │2   │0 B       │N/A         │
└────────────┴───────────┴────┴──────────┴────────────┘
## Errors and Warnings

┌───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────┬──────┬───────────┐
│Type   │Message                                                                         │Occurrences│Engine│Sample Run │
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼──────┼───────────┤
│Error  │Unable to parse tool invocation as JSON. Treating it as a string for filterin...│2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │"errorCodesToRetry": [],                                                        │2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │failed to get user: GET https://api.github.com/user: 403 Resource not accessi...│2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │4. **GitHub MCP Default Toolset Testing**: Verify that the `get_me` tool is N...│2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │"description": "Custom agent: Launch specialized agents in separate context w...│2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │"onRequestError": [                                                             │2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │[2026-01-04T23:48:45.823Z] [safeoutputs] send: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"resul...│2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │"statement": "# Smoke Test: Copilot Engine Validation\n\n**IMPORTANT: Keep al...│2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │Tool invocation result: failed to get user: GET https://api.github.com/user: ...│2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │executePromptDirectly completing: hasError=false, will return true              │2          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │Pattern 14/16: Permission denied error (requires error context) - regex: \ber...│1          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │Pattern 10/16: Copilot CLI failed command indicator - regex: ✗\s+(.+)           │1          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │Pattern 15/16: Unauthorized access error (requires error context) - regex: \b...│1          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │Pattern 16/16: Forbidden access error (requires error context) - regex: \berr...│1          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │validation completed. Errors found: false                                       │1          │-     │20700990762│
│Error  │1767545527.704 ::1:56072 - -:- 0.0 - 0 NONE_NONE:HIER_NONE error:transaction-...│1          │-     │20696085597│
│Err...

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