🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - November 28, 2025

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Comprehensive audit of agentic workflow executions from the last 24 hours, covering 47 workflow runs across 14 different workflows in the repository.

Executive Summary

The audit period (November 27-28, 2025) shows a 70.2% success rate across 47 workflow runs, with 33 successful completions, 6 failures, and 6 cancellations. The system demonstrates generally stable operation with several high-performing workflows achieving 100% success rates. However, specific issues have been identified with the Smoke Copilot workflow (0% success rate) and the Tidy workflow (40% success rate due to cancellations).

Key Findings:

• ✅ No missing tool requests detected
• ✅ No MCP server failures reported
• ⚠️ 58 permission-related warnings across multiple workflows
• ⚠️ 3 workflows with 100% failure rate need immediate attention
• ⚠️ Multiple cancellations suggest potential timeout or resource issues

📊 Workflow Health Trends (Last 7 Days)

Workflow Success/Failure Patterns

The trend analysis shows relatively stable performance with success rates hovering around 69-70% over the past two days. The consistency suggests systemic issues rather than sporadic failures.

Observations:

• Success rate improved slightly from 68.8% (Nov 27) to 70.2% (Nov 28)
• Cancellation rate remains a concern, representing 12.8% of all runs
• Failure patterns are concentrated in specific workflows rather than distributed

⚠️ Error and Warning Analysis

Error Trends

Top Error Patterns

Error Pattern	Count	Affected Runs	Workflows Impacted
Permission denied and could not request permission from user	58	13	Smoke Copilot, Firewall Escape Test, Changeset Generator, Smoke Copilot No Firewall
codex_protocol::models: Blocks (JSON parsing)	47	12	Smoke Codex, Issue Arborist, Close Outdated Discussions, Duplicate Code Detector
HTTP requires the use of Via (Squid warning)	11	11	Firewall Escape Test, Changeset Generator
EventEmitter memory leak (11 resize listeners)	10	9	Smoke Copilot No Firewall, Firewall Escape Test, Tidy
bash: wget: command not found	9	9	Firewall Escape Test

Analysis

Permission Denied Warnings: The most prevalent issue, occurring 58 times across 13 runs. This appears to be related to tool execution permissions in non-interactive environments. While these are logged as warnings rather than errors, they may indicate that workflows are attempting operations that require user approval but cannot obtain it in automated contexts.

JSON Parsing Logs: The codex_protocol error messages appear to be debug logging rather than actual errors, as the affected workflows (Smoke Codex, Issue Arborist) show successful completion. This suggests overly verbose logging at the error level.

Firewall/Squid Warnings: Configuration warnings from the Squid proxy used in firewall testing. These are informational and don't affect functionality.

EventEmitter Memory Leak: Node.js warns about potential memory leaks due to excessive event listeners. This should be investigated in the agent runtime to prevent actual memory issues.

Missing wget Command: The Firewall Escape Test workflow attempts to use wget for network testing, but it's not available in the runtime environment. Tests should use curl (which is available) instead.

📈 Workflow Statistics (24-Hour Period)

Overall Metrics

• Total Runs: 47
• Successful: 33 (70.2%)
• Failed: 6 (12.8%)
• Cancelled: 6 (12.8%)
• Incomplete: 2 (4.3%)

Per-Workflow Breakdown

🟢 High Performers (100% Success Rate)

Workflow	Runs	Success Rate
Smoke Copilot No Firewall	4	100%
Smoke Codex	5	100%
Smoke Claude	4	100%
Changeset Generator	4	100%
Security Fix PR	2	100%
Documentation Unbloat	1	100%
Close Outdated Discussions	1	100%

Analysis: These workflows demonstrate reliable execution patterns. The smoke tests for Codex and Claude engines consistently pass, indicating stable AI agent integration for these engines.

🟡 Moderate Performers (60-70% Success Rate)

Workflow	Runs	Success	Failure	Cancelled	Success Rate
Firewall Escape Test	10	7	0	3	70.0%
Issue Arborist	5	3	2	0	60.0%

Analysis:

• Firewall Escape Test: 30% cancellation rate suggests potential timeout issues during network escape testing
• Issue Arborist: 40% failure rate indicates reliability problems with issue management automation

🔴 Problem Workflows (0-40% Success Rate)

Workflow	Runs	Success	Failure	Cancelled	Success Rate
Smoke Copilot	3	0	3	0	0%
Tidy	5	2	0	3	40%
Duplicate Code Detector	1	0	1	0	0%

Critical Issues:

1. Smoke Copilot (0% success): All 3 runs failed

   • §19750421738
   • §19748075047
   • §19746627800

2. Duplicate Code Detector (0% success): Single run failed

   • §19747726267

3. Tidy (40% success): 60% of runs cancelled

   • Cancelled runs: §19748421596, §19748334269, §19746015323

🔥 Firewall Analysis

Network Access Patterns

Total Requests: 120
Allowed: 120 (100%)
Denied: 0 (0%)

Allowed Domains

All network access during the audit period was to authorized domains:

Domain	Purpose
api.enterprise.githubcopilot.com:443	GitHub Copilot AI engine API
api.github.com:443	GitHub REST API
github.com:443	GitHub web/API access
registry.npmjs.org:443	NPM package registry

Denied Domains

✅ No unauthorized access attempts detected

Analysis: The firewall is functioning as intended. All workflows are operating within approved network boundaries. No escape attempts or unauthorized domain access occurred during the audit period.

🛠️ Missing Tools & MCP Failures

Missing Tool Requests

✅ No missing tool requests detected in the audit period

This is a positive indicator that:

• All required tools are properly configured and available
• Workflows are not attempting to use undefined or unavailable capabilities
• MCP tool configurations are complete

MCP Server Failures

✅ No MCP server failures reported

All MCP servers (GitHub, gh-aw, safeoutputs) operated reliably throughout the audit period.

🎯 Recommendations

High Priority

1. Fix Smoke Copilot Workflow (Critical)

Issue: 100% failure rate across 3 runs
Impact: Unable to validate Copilot engine functionality
Action Required:

• Review logs from failed runs to identify root cause
• Check Copilot API authentication and configuration
• Verify workflow permissions and resource allocation
• Compare with Smoke Copilot No Firewall (100% success) to identify firewall-specific issues

2. Investigate Tidy Workflow Cancellations

Issue: 60% cancellation rate
Impact: Code cleanup and maintenance tasks not completing
Action Required:

• Review timeout settings - may need to increase execution time limits
• Analyze resource usage patterns to identify bottlenecks
• Consider breaking large tidy operations into smaller chunks
• Implement checkpointing to resume cancelled work

3. Debug Duplicate Code Detector Failure

Issue: Single run failed
Impact: Code quality checks not running
Action Required:

• Investigate failure at §19747726267
• Review error logs for root cause
• May be related to the 25 "${server.error}" pattern occurrences found

Medium Priority

4. Improve Issue Arborist Reliability

Issue: 40% failure rate (2 of 5 runs)
Impact: Issue organization and hierarchy management unreliable
Action Required:

• Review failed runs: §19749032361, §19747146323
• Add error handling for edge cases in issue processing
• Implement retry logic for transient GitHub API failures

5. Reduce Firewall Escape Test Cancellations

Issue: 30% cancellation rate
Impact: Security testing coverage incomplete
Action Required:

• Optimize test execution time
• Consider parallel test execution
• Replace wget with curl in test scripts

Low Priority

6. Reduce Permission Warning Noise

Issue: 58 "Permission denied" warnings across 13 runs
Impact: Log noise, potential indication of attempted unauthorized operations
Action Required:

• Review tool permission configurations
• Suppress warnings for expected permission denials in automated contexts
• Document which operations require user approval and adjust workflows

7. Fix EventEmitter Memory Leak Warning

Issue: Node.js warning about excessive event listeners
Impact: Potential memory issues in long-running workflows
Action Required:

• Increase MaxListeners setting in affected components
• Review event listener registration patterns
• Clean up listeners when no longer needed

8. Reduce Codex Protocol Logging Verbosity

Issue: 47 debug messages logged at error level
Impact: Log noise, difficult to identify real errors
Action Required:

• Adjust logging levels in codex_protocol to use debug/info instead of error
• Configure structured logging to separate debug output from error logs

📊 Historical Context

7-Day Trend Summary

• Average Success Rate: 69.5%
• Best Day: November 28 (70.2%)
• Worst Day: November 27 (68.8%)
• Total Runs (7 days): 63
• Total Successful: 44
• Total Failed: 9
• Total Cancelled: 8

Analysis: Success rate has been stable around 69-70% over the past week. The consistency suggests that issues are systemic rather than sporadic, and targeted fixes to the identified problem workflows could significantly improve overall success rates.

Projection: Fixing the three critical workflows (Smoke Copilot, Tidy, Duplicate Code Detector) could potentially increase the success rate to 85-90%, as these account for a significant portion of failures and cancellations.

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Audit Metadata

• Audit Date: 2025-11-28
• Period Analyzed: Last 24 hours (2025-11-27 to 2025-11-28)
• Runs Analyzed: 47 workflow executions
• Workflows Monitored: 14 active workflows
• Data Source: GitHub Actions workflow logs via gh-aw MCP server
• Charts Generated: 2 (workflow health trends, error/warning trends)

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References:

• §19750421738 (Smoke Copilot failure)
• §19747726267 (Duplicate Code Detector failure)
• §19749032361 (Issue Arborist failure)

AI generated by Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

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