Agentic Workflow Audit — 2026-03-03

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Daily audit of all agentic workflow runs from the last 24 hours (2026-03-03 UTC).

Overview

26 workflow runs executed in the past 24 hours across schedule, pull_request, and push triggers. The overall health is moderate — most scheduled workflows succeeded, but 4 distinct failures were detected across 3 workflows, and 1 missing tool was reported. The Changeset Generator dominated token usage at ~238M tokens (~96% of total).

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Summary Stats

Metric	Value
Total Runs	26
Total Duration	~36.3 min
Errors	4
Warnings	0
Missing Tools	1
Safe Output Items Created	3
Total Tokens	~230.8M
Estimated Cost	~$5.27
Firewall Block Rate	45.7% (155/339 requests)

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Workflow Health Chart

The chart above shows success/failure runs per workflow. 4 workflows reported failures — Smoke Codex had the highest failure count (3 runs, all on PRs), AI Moderator and Issue Monster both had 2 failures each (on push to non-main branches, likely expected infrastructure failures). The core scheduled workflows (Contribution Check, Daily Doc Updater, Chroma Issue Indexer) all completed successfully.

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Token & Cost Distribution

Changeset Generator accounts for 96.0% of all token usage (~238M of 248M total across token-tracked runs), driven by 2 large PR changesets. The next highest are Smoke Claude (~3.8M) and Chroma Issue Indexer (~3.4M). Cost efficiency is reasonable given the volume — Changeset Generator at 238M tokens for 2 runs is expected for a full codebase analysis workflow.

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Critical Issues

1. Copilot Policy Access Denied — Copilot PR Prompt Pattern Analysis

• Run: §22609032240
• Error: Error: Access denied by policy settings — the Copilot CLI reported organization policy restrictions preventing access.
• Impact: Workflow agent could not execute; job failed during agent phase.
• Recommendation: Verify Copilot policy settings for the gh-aw repository — the scheduled prompt analysis workflow may need re-authorization or policy exception. Check https://github.com/settings/copilot.

2. Smoke Codex Failures on PRs (2 PRs, 3 runs)

• Runs: §22608737165, §22608693279
• Branches: copilot/fix-allowed-repos-validation, copilot/update-generated-footer-history-link
• Error: Agent job failed during smoke test execution.
• Impact: PR smoke checks did not pass; companion runs (Agent Container Smoke Test, Changeset Generator, Smoke Copilot) all succeeded on the same PRs.
• Recommendation: This appears to be a Codex-engine-specific issue on these PR branches. Review Codex task completion logic; the safe-outputs job did succeed so the workflow infrastructure is healthy.

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Missing Tools

GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test — MCP Toolsets Not Loaded

• Run: §22609194904
• Conclusion: success (workflow still completed successfully)
• Missing: MCP toolsets unavailable in runner — tools not loaded
• Reason reported: MCP toolsets unavailable in runner - tools not loaded
• Assessment: This is likely expected behavior for this test workflow — it tests authentication and reports what tools are/aren't available. The workflow concluded success despite the missing tool report, indicating the missing tool was correctly detected and reported rather than causing failure.

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Firewall Analysis

Network Firewall Summary — 45.7% Block Rate

Domain	Allowed	Blocked
api.githubcopilot.com:443	47	0
api.openai.com:443	110	0
proxy.golang.org:443	8	0
registry.npmjs.org:443	16	0
storage.googleapis.com:443	2	0
sum.golang.org:443	1	0
github.com:443	0	4
codeload.github.com:443	0	2
(unknown/other)	0	149

The 149 blocked requests to unknown/unclassified destinations are likely internal container networking overhead (normal). The 4 blocked github.com:443 and 2 blocked codeload.github.com:443 requests came from Changeset Generator — this workflow attempts direct GitHub API access which is intentionally blocked by the firewall (the MCP server is expected to handle GitHub API calls instead).

Assessment: Firewall is functioning correctly. No suspicious or unexpected domain access attempts detected.

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Successful Workflows

View Successful Runs

Workflow	Engine	Runs	Duration	Tokens
Changeset Generator	codex	3	~14m	238.1M
Agent Container Smoke Test	copilot	3	~9.8m	522K
Smoke Copilot	copilot	2	—	—
Smoke Claude	claude	2	—	3.8M
Contribution Check	copilot	1	3.2m	264K
GitHub Remote MCP Auth Test	copilot	1	3.4m	84K
Chroma Issue Indexer	copilot	1	—	3.4M
Daily Doc Updater	claude	1	—	1.8M

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Recommendations

1. Investigate Copilot policy restriction on Copilot PR Prompt Pattern Analysis — this is a scheduled workflow that failed due to access policy, not a transient error.
2. Monitor Smoke Codex failures — the pattern across 2 different PRs on the same day may indicate a regression in the Codex smoke test task definition or environment.
3. Issue Monster activation failures occurred on non-main branches (push events to du2, copilot/* branches) — these appear to be expected failures due to branch-specific configuration, not regressions.
4. First audit baseline established — this run creates the baseline for future 30-day trend analysis in repo memory.

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References:

• §22609032240 — Copilot PR Prompt Pattern Analysis
• §22608737165 — Smoke Codex (PR)
• §22609194904 — GitHub Remote MCP Auth Test

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