🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 14, 2025

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🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 14, 2025

Audit Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours (Oct 14, 2025)
• Runs Analyzed: 18
• Workflows Active: 10
• Success Rate: 83.3% (11 successful, 6 failed, 1 cancelled)
• Total Duration: 1.0 hour
• Total Cost: $2.92
• Total Tokens: 5,277,958
• Issues Found: 2 critical issues affecting 6 runs

🚨 Critical Issues

Issue #1: Artifact Path Mismatch in "Issue Summary to Notion" Workflow

Severity: HIGH
Status: 5 consecutive failures
Affected Runs:

• #18510352568
• #18510534174
• #18510575998
• #18510703167
• #18510849584

Error Message:

Error reading or parsing agent output: ENOENT: no such file or directory, 
open '/tmp/gh-aw/safe-jobs/agent_output.json'

Root Cause:
The artifact is being downloaded to /tmp/gh-aw/sh-aw/safe-jobs/ (note "sh-aw"), but the script is looking for it at /tmp/gh-aw/safe-jobs/agent_output.json. This is a typo or configuration mismatch in the path.

Evidence from logs:

Download artifact to: /tmp/gh-aw/sh-aw/safe-jobs
...
GITHUB_AW_AGENT_OUTPUT: /tmp/gh-aw/safe-jobs/agent_output.json

Impact: Complete failure of Notion integration functionality. The agent successfully generates output, but the post-processing job cannot find it.

Recommendation:

1. Update the artifact download path from /tmp/gh-aw/sh-aw/safe-jobs/ to /tmp/gh-aw/safe-jobs/, OR
2. Update the environment variable to point to /tmp/gh-aw/sh-aw/safe-jobs/agent_output.json

This should be a simple one-line fix in the workflow configuration.

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Issue #2: Permission Denied Errors in "Tidy" Workflow

Severity: MEDIUM
Status: 1 failure with 20 warnings
Affected Run: #18511049704

Error Pattern:

Permission denied and could not request permission from user

Root Cause:
During workflow compilation, the system encounters permission errors repeatedly (20 occurrences). The compilation completes but with errors: "Compiled 30 workflow(s): 2 error(s), 16 warning(s)".

Impact: Workflow failures, degraded functionality, and potential for missed code quality improvements.

Recommendation:

1. Review the tool permission model for the Copilot agent used by Tidy workflow
2. Investigate why compilation is encountering permission barriers
3. Consider if this is related to a recent change in permission handling or tool configuration

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📊 Workflow Performance Breakdown

Workflow	Runs	Success	Failure	Success Rate	Issues
Issue Summary to Notion	6	1	5	16.7%	❌ Path mismatch
Tidy	5	3	1 (+1 cancelled)	60%	⚠️ Permission errors
Changeset Generator	4	4	0	100%	✅ All successful
Documentation Unbloat	1	1	0	100%	✅ Successful
Issue Classifier	1	1	0	100%	✅ Successful
Audit Agent	1	0	0	In Progress	⏳ This run

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📈 Performance Metrics

Cost Analysis:

• Total Cost: $2.92
• Most Expensive Run: Documentation Unbloat (#18511658897) - $1.46, 3M tokens, 114 turns
• Average Cost per Run: $0.16

Duration Analysis:

• Average Duration: 3.3 minutes
• Median Duration: 2.0 minutes
• Longest Run: Tidy (#18511049704) - 12.1 minutes

Efficiency:

• Average Turns: 13.7
• Max Turns: 114 (Documentation Unbloat - successful)

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🔧 Tool Usage Summary

Tool	Total Calls	Workflows Using
github	470	10
Edit	42	1
TodoWrite	38	4
safe_outputs	20	10

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✅ Positive Findings

1. No Missing Tools: Zero missing tool requests across all workflows - the tool ecosystem is complete for current needs
2. High Success Rate: 83.3% overall success rate
3. Stable Workflows: Changeset Generator (100% success), Documentation Unbloat (100%), Issue Classifier (100%)
4. Reasonable Costs: $2.92 for 18 runs is efficient
5. No MCP Server Failures: All MCP integrations working properly

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🎯 Recommendations

Priority: HIGH

Fix Artifact Path Mismatch

• Action: Update workflow configuration to use consistent paths
• Expected Impact: Will immediately fix 5 consecutive failures and restore Notion integration
• Effort: Low (1-line configuration change)

Priority: MEDIUM

Review Permission Model

• Action: Investigate permission errors in Tidy workflow compilation
• Expected Impact: Reduce failure rate and eliminate 20+ permission warnings
• Effort: Medium (requires investigation and testing)

Priority: LOW

Add Health Checks

• Action: Consider automated health checks for critical workflows
• Expected Impact: Faster detection of issues like the artifact path mismatch
• Effort: Medium (requires new monitoring infrastructure)

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📝 Historical Context

This audit report has been saved to cache memory at:

• /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/2025-10-14-late-evening.json
• /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/patterns/errors.json (updated)

Future audits will include trend analysis comparing with historical data.

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🔍 Next Steps

• Immediate: Fix artifact path mismatch in Issue Summary to Notion workflow
• This Week: Investigate and resolve permission errors in Tidy workflow
• Future: Implement health checks for critical workflows
• Ongoing: Continue daily audit monitoring

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📊 Success Stories

Despite the issues found, several workflows are performing excellently:

• Changeset Generator: Perfect 100% success rate with 4 runs
• Documentation Unbloat: Successfully processed and improved documentation
• Issue Classifier: Quick and reliable classification

The overall health of the agentic workflow system is good, with specific issues that can be addressed with targeted fixes.

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🤖 This audit was performed automatically by the Agentic Workflow Audit Agent
Report generated at: 2025-10-14T23:53:00Z

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[pelikhan]

/q investigate id you can optimize the changeset generator workflow.

[pelikhan]

/q investigate Tidy permissions issues.

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