[workflow-analysis] Weekly Workflow Analysis Report - Jan 19-26, 2026

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This report analyzes 150+ GitHub Actions workflow runs from the past week (January 19-26, 2026) across multiple workflows including CI, agentic workflows, and smoke tests.

Executive Summary

• Overall Reliability: 97.6% success rate across active workflows
• Total Runs Analyzed: 150+ workflow executions
• Critical Issues: 2 CI failures due to linting errors
• Performance: Workflows completing efficiently within expected timeframes

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Workflow Performance Breakdown

CI Workflow

• Runs: 30 executions
• Success Rate: 83.3% (25 successful, 2 failed, 3 cancelled)
• Average Duration: 5.0 minutes
• Status: ⚠️ Needs attention

Key Metrics:

• Min Duration: 0.3 minutes
• Max Duration: 5.8 minutes
• Consistent performance with predictable execution times

Agentic Workflows

Audit Workflows Agent

• Runs: 8 executions
• Success Rate: 100%
• Average Duration: 10.6 minutes
• Status: ✅ Excellent

Smoke Tests (Claude & Codex)

• Claude Runs: 20 executions - 100% success
• Codex Runs: 20 executions - 100% success
• Status: ✅ Excellent
• Both smoke test suites demonstrate exceptional reliability

Dev Workflow

• Runs: 2 executions
• Success Rate: 100%
• Status: ✅ Healthy

CI Failure Doctor

• Runs: 30 executions
• Status: All skipped (conditional workflow - working as designed)

Mergefest

• Runs: 30 executions
• Status: 16 action_required, 14 skipped (workflow appears to be functioning as designed)

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Critical Findings

1. CI Lint Failures (Priority: High)

View Failure Details

Two CI runs failed in the lint-go job during the past week:

• §21348501229 - Jan 26, 06:33 UTC
• §21348404983 - Jan 26, 06:28 UTC

Root Cause:
Both failures occurred due to a staticcheck linting error in pkg/campaign/interactive.go:294:

##[error]pkg/campaign/interactive.go:294:2: QF1003: could use tagged switch on scopeType (staticcheck)
	if scopeType == "multiple" {
	^
``````

**Contributing Factor:**
The incremental linting process failed to find `origin/main` branch:
``````
level=warning msg="[runner] Can't process results by diff processor: can't prepare diff by revgrep: 
could not read git repo: error executing \"git diff --color=never --no-ext-diff --default-prefix 
--relative origin/main --\": exit status 128: fatal: bad revision 'origin/main'\n"

This git configuration issue caused the linter to fall back to full repository scanning, which then caught the staticcheck violation.

Impact: Low-severity code quality issue preventing merges

Recommendation:

1. Fix the staticcheck violation in pkg/campaign/interactive.go:294 by converting the if-else chain to a tagged switch statement
2. Investigate git configuration in CI environment to ensure origin/main is properly available for incremental linting

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Performance Analysis

Duration Trends

Workflow execution times are healthy and predictable:

• Fast Workflows (< 1 min): CI Failure Doctor, Mergefest (conditional/skipped)
• Quick Workflows (< 10 min): CI (avg 5.0 min), Dev
• Medium Workflows (10-15 min): Audit Workflows (avg 10.6 min)

View Duration Distribution

CI Workflow:

• Minimum: 0.3 minutes (cancelled/fast-fail)
• Average: 5.0 minutes
• Maximum: 5.8 minutes
• Variance: Low (indicates stable performance)

Audit Workflows:

• Minimum: 8.7 minutes
• Average: 10.6 minutes
• Maximum: 14.3 minutes
• Variance: Moderate (expected for analysis-heavy workflows)

Assessment: Performance is within acceptable ranges. No optimization needed at this time.

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Reliability Metrics

Success Rates by Workflow Type

Workflow Type	Success Rate	Assessment
Smoke Tests (Claude/Codex)	100%	✅ Excellent
Audit Workflows	100%	✅ Excellent
Dev Workflow	100%	✅ Excellent
CI Workflow	83.3%	⚠️ Good (with known issues)

Overall Trend: Strong reliability across the board, with only the CI workflow experiencing intermittent failures due to code quality issues rather than infrastructure problems.

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Recommendations

Immediate Actions (Priority: High)

1. Fix Staticcheck Violation in pkg/campaign/interactive.go:294

   • Convert if-else chain to tagged switch statement as suggested by QF1003
   • This will immediately resolve the two CI failures

2. Verify Git Configuration

   • Ensure origin/main branch is properly configured in CI checkout step
   • Consider adding explicit fetch of main branch for diff comparison

Short-term Improvements (Priority: Medium)

3. Monitor CI Cancellation Rate

   • 3 cancelled runs (10%) warrant investigation
   • Review cancellation triggers and consider if they're intentional or problematic

4. Enhance Linting Workflow

   • Add fallback handling when origin/main is unavailable
   • Improve error messaging for git-related linting failures

Long-term Optimizations (Priority: Low)

5. Consider Performance Baselines

   • Document current performance metrics as baselines
   • Set up alerts for significant performance degradation (e.g., >20% increase in duration)

6. Expand Smoke Test Coverage

   • Current 100% success rate on smoke tests is excellent
   • Consider adding additional edge case scenarios

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Positive Highlights

• Excellent Agentic Workflow Reliability: All AI-powered workflows (Audit, Smoke Tests) showing 100% success rates
• Fast CI Execution: 5-minute average CI time is competitive and efficient
• Predictable Performance: Low variance in execution times indicates stable infrastructure
• Proactive Monitoring: CI Failure Doctor and Audit Workflows demonstrate good observability practices

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Next Steps

1. Create issue or PR to fix pkg/campaign/interactive.go:294 staticcheck violation
2. Verify and document git configuration requirements for incremental linting
3. Continue weekly monitoring to track improvement trends
4. Re-evaluate in next weekly analysis to confirm fixes are effective

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Analysis Period: January 19-26, 2026
Total Runs Analyzed: 150+
Workflows Covered: 7 active workflows
Data Sources: GitHub Actions API, workflow run logs

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