Close #7940: Workflow already has actions:read permission

[Copilot]

Issue #7940 reported missing actions: read permission in workflow-health-manager.md based on workflow run #20547872318 (Dec 28, 02:57 UTC). Investigation shows the permission was already added in commit 7d78513 (Dec 28, 06:51 UTC) before this issue was created.

Current Configuration

The workflow already has:

• actions: read permission (line 8)
• toolsets: [default, actions] in GitHub MCP config (line 13)

permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: read
  pull-requests: read
  actions: read          # ✅ Already present

tools:
  github:
    mode: remote
    toolsets: [default, actions]  # ✅ Actions toolset enabled

Resolution

No code changes needed. The workflow ran on an older commit before the fix was merged. Closing as already resolved.

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Workflow Health Dashboard - 2025-12-28</issue_title>
<issue_description>## Workflow Health Dashboard
Date: December 28, 2025
Run ID: 20547872318
Status: ⚠️ Partial Analysis

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📊 Overview

Metric	Count	Status
Total Workflows	126	✅
Healthy	Unknown	⚠️ Need API access
Warning	Unknown	⚠️ Need API access
Critical	Unknown	⚠️ Need API access
Inactive	Unknown	⚠️ Need API access

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✅ Compilation Status: EXCELLENT

All Workflows Properly Compiled

• 126/126 workflows have corresponding .lock.yml files (100%)
• 0 missing lock files
• 0 workflows excluded from analysis (shared imports are intentionally not compiled)

This indicates:

• ✅ All workflows are syntactically valid
• ✅ Build system is functioning correctly
• ✅ No compilation errors detected
• ✅ No broken workflow configurations

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⚠️ Runtime Health: Unable to Assess

Blocked by Missing Permissions

Root Cause: Workflow lacks actions: read permission

Cannot Analyze:

• Workflow execution success/failure rates
• Recent run history and patterns
• Error messages and failure types
• Timeout or resource issues
• Performance degradation trends
• Mean time between failures (MTBF)

Impact: Unable to identify:

• ❌ Consistently failing workflows
• ❌ Workflows with recent regressions
• ❌ Systemic issues across multiple workflows
• ❌ Resource-intensive workflows
• ❌ Workflows needing urgent attention

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🔍 Workflow Inventory (Sample)

From manual inspection of 126 workflows:

Meta-Orchestrators

• campaign-manager - Campaign coordination
• agent-performance-analyzer - Agent quality analysis
• workflow-health-manager - This workflow
• metrics-collector - Performance data collection

Monitoring & CI/CD

• ci-doctor - Failed CI investigation
• ci-coach - CI optimization
• dev-hawk - Development monitoring
• smoke-detector - Smoke test aggregation

Issue Management

• issue-triage-agent - Automated labeling
• issue-classifier - Classification
• issue-arborist - Organization
• issue-monster - Creation management

Code Quality

• duplicate-code-detector
• static-analysis-report
• breaking-change-checker
• grumpy-reviewer
• pr-nitpick-reviewer

Documentation

• daily-doc-updater
• technical-doc-writer
• docs-noob-tester
• developer-docs-consolidator
• glossary-maintainer

Security

• security-compliance
• security-fix-pr
• daily-malicious-code-scan
• firewall / firewall-escape

Testing & Validation

• smoke-copilot, smoke-claude, smoke-codex
• daily-multi-device-docs-tester
• smoke-copilot-playwright
• Multiple smoke test workflows

Campaign

• go-file-size-reduction-project64.campaign.g - Campaign orchestrator

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🚨 Critical Issues

Issue #1: Missing Permissions (P0)

Problem: Cannot access GitHub API to query workflow runs

Required Fix: Add actions: read permission to workflow frontmatter

Current:

permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: read
  pull-requests: read
  discussions: read

Needed:

permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: read
  pull-requests: read
  discussions: read
  actions: read  # ⚠️ ADD THIS

Reference: Issue created in this run documenting the problem

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Issue #2: Shared Memory Not Accessible (P1)

Problem: Cannot access shared metrics at /tmp/gh-aw/repo-memory-default/memory/default/

Expected Data:

• metrics/latest.json - Latest workflow performance metrics
• metrics/daily/*.json - Historical daily metrics
• workflow-health-latest.md - Previous run summary
• campaign-manager-latest.md - Campaign insights
• agent-performance-latest.md - Agent quality data

Investigation Needed:

1. Verify metrics-collector workflow ran successfully
2. Check if memory/meta-orchestrators branch exists
3. Confirm repo-memory tool configuration
4. Validate file permissions and paths

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Issue #3: File System Restrictions (P2)

Problem: Permission denied when creating files or executing scripts

Impact:

• Cannot write analysis reports to /tmp
• Cannot execute automated analysis scripts
• Cannot persist findings to repo memory
• Limited to safe-output tools only

Observation: Even basic file writes to /tmp are blocked

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📈 Observed Patterns

Engine Distribution

From sample workflows:

• Copilot: Primary engine (meta-orchestrators, monitoring)
• Strict mode: Used in security-critical workflows
• Multi-engine support: copilot, claude, codex, custom

Trigger Patterns

• Daily schedules: ~5 workflows using on: daily
• Workflow_run events: CI monitoring, dev tracking
• Issue/PR events: Automated triage and analysis
• Manual dispatch: Available ...

• Fixes Workflow Health Dashboard - 2025-12-28 #7940

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