🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 25, 2025

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🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - October 25, 2025

Executive Summary

This is the daily audit of agentic workflow runs from the last 24 hours. The audit analyzed 108 workflow runs with detailed investigation of 8 recent runs, identifying several critical issues that require attention, particularly around MCP server connectivity and permission management.

Overall Health: ⚠️ Good with concerns - 75% success rate with some critical issues requiring attention.

Audit Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours (October 24-25, 2025)
• Runs Downloaded: 108 workflow executions
• Runs Analyzed: 8 (detailed analysis)
• Total Duration: 36.2 minutes
• Success Rate: 75% (6 successful, 1 failed, 1 cancelled)
• Total Errors: 46 errors detected
• Total Warnings: 31 warnings detected
• Issues Found: 5 distinct issue categories

Performance Metrics

Cost Analysis

• Total Tokens Used: 1,398,048 tokens (across analyzed runs)
• Total Cost: $0.84
• Average Cost per Run: ~$0.11
• Highest Cost Workflow: Smoke Detector ($0.84, 72 turns, 1.4M tokens)

Execution Time

• Average Duration: 4.5 minutes
• Longest Run: Q workflow (6.4 minutes)
• Total Duration: 36.2 minutes (sampled runs)

Tool Usage

• Most Used Tool: GitHub MCP (121 calls across 5 runs)
• SafeOutputs: 17 calls across 6 runs
• File Operations: Read (8), Grep (5), Glob (5)
• Todo Tracking: TodoWrite (4 calls)

Full Report Details

Critical Issues Detected

1. 🔴 HIGH PRIORITY: MCP Connection Failures

Issue: GitHub MCP server closing connections during startup

Details:

• Error: MCP error -32000: Connection closed
• Affected Workflow: Smoke Copilot
• Run ID: 18798111281
• Timestamp: 2025-10-25T04:22:18Z
• Impact: Complete workflow failure
• Frequency: 2 occurrences

Root Cause: The GitHub MCP server is failing to initialize properly, causing the connection to close before the workflow can execute GitHub API operations.

Recommended Actions:

1. Review MCP server logs for connection errors
2. Verify GitHub token permissions and validity
3. Check for timeout issues during MCP server initialization
4. Add retry logic with exponential backoff for MCP connections
5. Monitor network connectivity during workflow execution

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2. 🔴 HIGH PRIORITY: Permission Denied Errors

Issue: Systematic permission denial in automated workflows

Details:

• Error: Permission denied and could not request permission from user
• Affected Workflow: CLI Version Checker
• Run ID: 18803176039
• Status: Cancelled after 9 errors
• Frequency: 16 occurrences in single run

Root Cause: GitHub Copilot agent permission model requires user interaction to grant tool permissions, which is incompatible with automated workflow execution.

Recommended Actions:

1. Pre-authorize all required tools in workflow configuration
2. Review Copilot agent permission model for automated workflows
3. Consider using service account or different authentication approach
4. Document which tools require pre-authorization
5. Add workflow configuration to bypass permission prompts

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3. 🟡 MEDIUM PRIORITY: Custom Agents API 404

Issue: GitHub Copilot custom agents endpoint not found

Details:

• Error: Request to GitHub API at (redacted) failed with status 404
• Affected Workflows: Daily Perf Improver, Tidy
• Run IDs: 18804553660, 18804550031
• Frequency: 2 occurrences

Root Cause: Code attempts to load custom agents that either don't exist or aren't configured for this repository.

Recommended Actions:

1. Verify if custom agents are intended to be used
2. Suppress warning if custom agents are optional
3. Document custom agents configuration requirements
4. Add graceful fallback when custom agents unavailable

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4. 🟡 MEDIUM PRIORITY: JSON Parse Errors

Issue: Tool output containing invalid JSON characters

Details:

• Error: Unexpected token 'ℹ', "ℹ Timeout "... is not valid JSON
• Affected Workflow: Q
• Run ID: 18799549374
• Root Cause: Tool output includes emoji/formatting characters that break JSON parsing

Recommended Actions:

1. Add better error handling for malformed JSON responses
2. Strip formatting characters (emoji, ANSI codes) before JSON parsing
3. Validate tool output format before attempting parse
4. Use try-catch with fallback to raw string processing

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5. 🟢 LOW PRIORITY: Network Unreachable (IPv6)

Issue: ICMPv6 packets to Cloudflare failing

Details:

• Error: sending to ICMPv6 packet to [2606:4700::6810:1b22]: (101) Network is unreachable
• Affected Workflow: Changeset Generator
• Run ID: 18804393767
• Impact: Minimal - workflow completed successfully

Recommended Actions:

1. Verify IPv6 support in GitHub Actions environment
2. Add fallback to IPv4 if IPv6 unavailable
3. Document network connectivity requirements

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Affected Workflows Analysis

Failed Workflows

Workflow	Status	Error Count	Primary Issue	Run ID
Smoke Copilot	❌ Failure	6	MCP connection failure	18798111281
CLI Version Checker	⚠️ Cancelled	9	Permission denied	18803176039

Successful Workflows with Issues

Workflow	Error Count	Warning Count	Notes
Smoke Detector	23	6	High error count but completed - investigating complex logs
Q	3	8	JSON parsing and network config issues
Changeset Generator	3	2	Network and permission issues
Daily Perf Improver	1	2	Custom agents API warning
Tidy	1	2	Custom agents API warning

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Missing Tools Report

✅ Excellent News: Zero missing tools reported across all analyzed runs!

This indicates that:

• Tool availability is comprehensive
• Workflows have access to all required functionality
• No gaps in tooling infrastructure

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MCP Server Failures

Server	Issue	Workflow	Run ID	Timestamp
github	Connection closed during startup	Smoke Copilot	18798111281	2025-10-25T04:22:18Z

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Performance Analysis

Highest Token Usage

• Workflow: Smoke Detector
• Tokens: 1,398,048
• Cost: $0.84
• Turns: 72 conversation turns
• Note: High usage due to investigating smoke test failures and analyzing multiple log files

Resource Distribution

• GitHub MCP calls: 121 (most frequently used)
• SafeOutputs: 17 calls (discussion/issue creation)
• File Operations: 18 total (Read, Grep, Glob)

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Trends & Historical Context

Note: This is the first audit run, so no historical comparison data is available yet.

Positive Indicators ✅

• Zero missing tools reported
• 75% success rate overall
• Most workflows completing successfully
• Reasonable cost per execution ($0.11 average)
• Good tool coverage

Areas of Concern ⚠️

• MCP connection stability issues
• Permission model incompatibility with automated workflows
• High error counts even in successful runs (needs investigation)
• Custom agents configuration unclear

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Recommendations Summary

Immediate Actions Required

1. [HIGH] Investigate and fix MCP github server connection failures

   • Add retry logic
   • Check authentication and permissions
   • Monitor initialization process

2. [HIGH] Resolve permission model issues for automated workflows

   • Pre-authorize tools in workflow config
   • Document permission requirements
   • Consider service account approach

3. [MEDIUM] Clarify custom agents configuration

   • Document if custom agents are optional
   • Suppress warnings if not used
   • Add graceful fallback

4. [MEDIUM] Improve JSON parsing robustness

   • Strip formatting characters before parse
   • Add better error handling
   • Validate output format

Monitoring & Maintenance

1. Continue daily audits to track trends
2. Build historical baseline for comparison
3. Monitor MCP server health
4. Track permission-related failures
5. Review high-error-count successful runs

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Next Steps

• Investigate MCP connection failures in Smoke Copilot workflow
• Review and fix permission configuration for CLI Version Checker
• Document custom agents requirements
• Add JSON parsing improvements to Q workflow
• Set up automated alerting for MCP failures
• Compare tomorrow's audit to identify trends

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Audit Metadata

• Audit Date: 2025-10-25
• Logs Location: /tmp/gh-aw/aw-mcp/logs
• Total Runs Downloaded: 108
• Analysis Depth: Detailed analysis of 8 recent runs
• Cache: Findings stored in /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/2025-10-25.json
• Next Audit: 2025-10-26 (scheduled daily)

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Generated by: Agentic Workflow Audit Agent
Workflow Run: 18808105400

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