[safe-output-health] Safe Output Health Report - 2026-08-12

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🏥 Safe Output Health Report — 2026-08-12

Scope: This audit covers only the safe_outputs job (the GitHub Actions job that writes issues, discussions, comments, PRs, labels, etc. from agent output). Agent-job and detection-job failures are out of scope and are covered by separate monitors.

Bottom line: safe_outputs is healthy. Zero safe-output job failures were found in the last 24 hours, across a targeted audit of 33 runs (all 19 runs that failed at the workflow level, plus 14 spot-checked successful runs that produced output). No missing-tool or missing-data reports occurred, and no create_issue/create_discussion/add_comment/create_pull_request error was found in any step log.

Executive Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours (2026-08-11 04:15 → 2026-08-12 04:39 UTC)
• Runs analyzed: 200
• Distinct workflows active: ~70
• Engines in use: copilot (104), pi (48), claude (35), codex (8), opencode (2), aider (1), crush (1), goose (1)
• Total safe items created: 356 (issues/discussions/comments/PRs/etc. across all runs)
• Workflow-level failures: 19 (all attributed to the agent job — 12 driver_exit, 7 agent_logic — out of scope for this report)
• safe_outputs job failures found: 0
• Missing-tool / missing-data reports: 0 / 0

safe_outputs Job Audit

Because gh-aw's own failure classifier only labels agent-job-level causes (driver_exit, agent_logic), it does not by itself confirm whether the downstream safe_outputs job is healthy — a run can fail at the workflow level for reasons unrelated to safe outputs, and conversely a safe_outputs job could in principle fail silently (e.g. under continue-on-error) without flipping an otherwise-successful run to failure. To check directly, I audited the actual per-job GitHub Actions breakdown (via agenticworkflows audit) for:

• All 19 runs with a workflow-level failure (to confirm the failure wasn't actually in safe_outputs)
• 14 spot-checked runs with conclusion=success and safe_items_count>0, spanning different workflows and engines (copilot, pi, claude)

Result: 32 of 33 sampled safe_outputs jobs completed with conclusion: success (full step sequence: Set up job → Process Safe Outputs → Upload Safe Outputs Items → Complete job, 15–52s). The one exception, §31561310466 (GPL Dependency Cleaner), showed the safe_outputs job as skipped with no steps recorded at all — consistent with a job-level if: condition short-circuiting because the agent job produced no output artifact to process (the agent job itself failed with driver_exit before generating any safe-output items). This is an architectural no-op, not a failure.

Full per-run results (33 runs audited)

Group A — workflow-level failure, n=19 (checking safe_outputs isn't the real cause):

Run	Workflow	safe_outputs conclusion
§31563267320	Step Name Alignment	success
§31561379584	Go Logger Enhancement	success
§31561327420	Daily AstroStyleLite Markdown Spellcheck	success
§31561310466	GPL Dependency Cleaner gpclean	skipped (architectural)
§31559449633	Daily Compiler Quality Check	success
§31559306761	Daily action/setup/* Security Audit	success
§31558831533	Daily Regression Audit	success
§31555885210	Avenger	success
§31548182853	Daily Documentation Healer	success
§31543322301	Design Decision Gate	success
§31542632254	Daily BYOK Ollama Test	success
§31535557507	Daily Caveman Optimizer	success
§31532493511	Daily Team Evolution Insights	success
§31530215524	Daily Ambient Context Optimizer	success
§31526696700	Daily Code Debt Cleanup — Aider	success
§31526266090	[aw] Failure Investigator (6h)	success
§31526915222	Code Scanning Fixer	success
§31523783583	Daily Code Metrics and Trend Tracking Agent	success
§31518785706	Linter Miner	success

Group B — conclusion=success with safe items, n=14 (checking for silent/masked failures):

All 14 spot-checked runs — §31562935843 PR Sous Chef, §31562869042 Documentation Noob Tester, §31562860555 Copilot CLI Deep Research Agent, §31561388193 Code Simplifier, §31561300038 Issue Monster, §31560602083 PR Sous Chef #2707, §31562840731 jsweep JavaScript Unbloater, §31562179619 Refactoring Cadence, §31559980522 Daily Skill Optimizer Improvements, §31559519693 LintMonster, §31559378888 Metrics Collector, §31559227800 Daily Community Attribution Updater, §31559060898 Semantic Function Refactoring, §31558619226 Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter — showed safe_outputs job conclusion success, 17–52s duration, no anomalies in any step.

Root Cause Analysis

• API-related issues: None found in safe_outputs scope.
• Data validation issues: None found — 0 missing-tool and 0 missing-data reports across all 200 runs.
• Permission issues: None found.
• Architectural note: All safe-output writes for a run (create_issue, create_discussion, add_comment, create_pull_request, add_labels, etc.) execute as steps within one GitHub Actions job named safe_outputs (key steps: "Generate Safe Outputs Config/Tools" run earlier inside the agent job, then "Process Safe Outputs" and "Upload Safe Outputs Items" inside the safe_outputs job itself) — not as separate per-output-type jobs. This means a per-type success-rate table (create_issue vs. create_discussion vs. ...) isn't directly observable at the job level; it would require reading step-level log text for each output type dispatched inside "Process Safe Outputs". No errors were found in that step's conclusion for any of the 33 audited runs, so there's nothing to attribute to a specific output type this cycle.

Recommendations

Critical issues: None.

Bug fixes required: None — no defects surfaced in safe_outputs job scripts this cycle.

Configuration changes: None required.

Process improvements:

1. Add output-type-level breakdown to logs tooling — Priority: Low. Currently, confirming "no failures" for safe_outputs requires per-run audit calls and manual step-log reads rather than a single aggregate field (e.g. total_safe_output_job_failures) in the bulk logs summary. Adding that field would let future audits verify health without the 33-run manual sampling done here.
2. Consider a lightweight per-output-type marker in the "Process Safe Outputs" step log (e.g. [create_issue] ok, [add_comment] ok) so a future failure can be attributed to a specific output type without re-deriving it from raw log text.

Work Item Plan

Work Item 1: Add safe_outputs job failure counter to logs summary

• Type: Enhancement
• Priority: Low
• Description: The bulk agenticworkflows logs summary reports total_driver_exit_failures and total_agent_logic_failures but nothing for the safe_outputs job specifically. This audit had to fall back to 33 individual agenticworkflows audit calls (~15s each) to confirm safe-output health, which doesn't scale to checking all 200 runs.
• Acceptance Criteria:
  • Bulk logs summary includes a total_safe_outputs_job_failures (or similar) count
  • Per-run entries include the safe_outputs job's own conclusion field
• Technical Approach: Extend whatever collects failure_kind today to also read the safe_outputs job conclusion from the same GitHub Actions job list already being fetched per run.
• Estimated Effort: Small
• Dependencies: None

Historical Context

No prior safe-output-health audit exists in cache memory — this is the first recorded run. Cache memory at /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/safe-output-health/ has been seeded with today's findings (2026-08-12.json, index.json, and empty error-patterns.json / recurring-failures.json / solutions.json scaffolds) so future audits can track trends.

Metrics and KPIs

• Overall Safe Output Job Success Rate (sampled): 100% (32/32 executed jobs succeeded; 1/33 architecturally skipped due to zero output)
• Most reliable/only job type tracked: safe_outputs (single consolidated job in this architecture)
• Missing-tool / missing-data rate: 0%

Next Steps

• No immediate action needed — safe_outputs is healthy
• Consider the "Work Item 1" enhancement to make future audits cheaper (aggregate safe_outputs failure count in bulk logs summary)
• Re-run this audit tomorrow to build a 2-day trend baseline

References:

• §31563267320 — Step Name Alignment (agent-job driver_exit, safe_outputs unaffected)
• §31561310466 — GPL Dependency Cleaner (only architectural safe_outputs skip observed)
• §31562935843 — PR Sous Chef (representative healthy safe_outputs run)

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