Summary
code-simplifier.md and repository-quality-improver.md hard-code a "🤖 Generated by …" attribution line directly in the issue/PR body they instruct the agent to file. That attribution becomes a duplicate of the disclosure footer that most adopters now configure via safe-outputs.messages.footer, so every artifact ends up with the AI-authorship disclosure printed twice.
Concrete cases
In repository-quality-improver.md, the activity-issue template body includes a hard-coded "Generated by …" attribution; same shape in code-simplifier.md's issue/PR body templates.
Workaround PR in our fork: microsoft/testfx#8994 — "Drop duplicate per-workflow Copilot attribution from agentic-workflow PR/issue bodies" (touches both files, removes 7 lines total).
Proposed fix
Remove the hard-coded attribution snippets from the issue/PR body templates in:
workflows/code-simplifier.mdworkflows/repository-quality-improver.md
Adopters who want a disclosure footer can use safe-outputs.messages.footer; those who don't, won't have spurious "Copilot generated" lines in their bodies.
Happy to send the PR upstream — it's the same diff as microsoft/testfx#8994.
Related
I've also filed a parallel feature request on gh-aw for a built-in disclosure-footer toggle so adopters don't have to copy/paste the footer string across every workflow.
Summary
code-simplifier.mdandrepository-quality-improver.mdhard-code a "🤖 Generated by …" attribution line directly in the issue/PR body they instruct the agent to file. That attribution becomes a duplicate of the disclosure footer that most adopters now configure viasafe-outputs.messages.footer, so every artifact ends up with the AI-authorship disclosure printed twice.Concrete cases
In
repository-quality-improver.md, the activity-issue template body includes a hard-coded "Generated by …" attribution; same shape incode-simplifier.md's issue/PR body templates.Workaround PR in our fork: microsoft/testfx#8994 — "Drop duplicate per-workflow Copilot attribution from agentic-workflow PR/issue bodies" (touches both files, removes 7 lines total).
Proposed fix
Remove the hard-coded attribution snippets from the issue/PR body templates in:
workflows/code-simplifier.mdworkflows/repository-quality-improver.mdAdopters who want a disclosure footer can use
safe-outputs.messages.footer; those who don't, won't have spurious "Copilot generated" lines in their bodies.Happy to send the PR upstream — it's the same diff as microsoft/testfx#8994.
Related
I've also filed a parallel feature request on gh-aw for a built-in disclosure-footer toggle so adopters don't have to copy/paste the footer string across every workflow.