[audit-workflows] Daily Audit – April 8, 2026

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Automated daily audit of agentic workflow runs over the past 24 hours (2026-04-08).

Summary

Metric	Value
Total runs analyzed	125
✅ Successful	6
❌ Failed	5
⊘ Skipped	72
⚠️ Cancelled	39
🔄 In-progress	3
Success rate (excl. skipped/cancelled)	54.5%
Token usage	0 (not captured in summaries)
Estimated cost	$0.00

Note on token data: All run summaries report 0 tokens and $0.00 cost. This appears to be a data collection gap — token telemetry may not be populated in the run summary artifacts for this pipeline configuration.

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Workflow Health Trend

(see run artifacts below)

The activity was concentrated in a ~30-minute window between 20:31–21:03 UTC. A large burst of 39 cancellations occurred at ~20:31–20:32 UTC across smoke test and feature workflows (all with 1–9s durations), consistent with a concurrent event triggering multiple workflows that were then superseded or cancelled.

Token & Cost Trend

The token/cost chart confirms no billable usage was recorded in the run summaries for this period. This is likely a telemetry gap rather than zero actual usage.

📎 Charts and full artifacts: workflow run #24158618027

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❌ Failure Analysis

1. Copilot CLI Startup Failures (2 runs)

Two separate workflows failed because the Copilot CLI process exited immediately with code 1 (< 1s duration, no stdout/stderr output, no retry triggered):

Run	Workflow	Engine	Event
§24157775965	Auto-Triage Issues	Copilot v1.0.21	issues
§24158398273	Daily Workflow Updater	Copilot v1.0.21	schedule

The Daily Workflow Updater also shows a behavioral regression: its last successful run (§24050857331) completed 8 turns with a write posture; this run produced 0 turns with read-only posture — a significant delta.

Likely cause: Copilot CLI v1.0.21 failing to initialize (token/credential or binary startup issue in the sandboxed container). The copilot-driver does not retry when hasOutput=false.

2. Git Checkout Failures — Merged PR Branch (2 runs)

Both Design Decision Gate 🏗️ and Test Quality Sentinel failed to checkout the PR branch copilot/rename-upload-safe-output-items for PR #25378 (exit code 128). The branch was deleted after the PR was merged, causing the checkout step to fail.

Run	Workflow	Engine	PR
§24157812339	Design Decision Gate 🏗️	Claude Code v2.1.94	#25378
§24157812323	Test Quality Sentinel	Copilot v1.0.21	#25378

These two failures share a single root cause (one PR event), so they count as one incident.

3. API Rate Limit — AI Moderator (1 run)

§24157224934 failed during pre_activation when attempting to lock issue #25381. The GitHub API returned a rate limit error for the installation token. This occurred at 20:32 UTC, immediately following the burst of 39 cancellations at 20:31 UTC — the mass trigger event likely depleted the installation rate limit.

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⚠️ Cancellation Burst

39 runs were cancelled at ~20:31–20:32 UTC with sub-10s durations. Affected workflows include smoke tests (Smoke Copilot, Smoke Agent variants, Smoke Gemini, Smoke Codex) and feature workflows (Changeset Generator, Code Refiner, Approach Validator, /cloclo). This is consistent with a commit push or PR merge on main triggering a wave of concurrent workflow runs that were then cancelled due to concurrency limits or superseding commits.

Affected cancelled workflows (39 total)

• /cloclo — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Agent: public/none — 3 cancelled
• Smoke Agent: all/merged — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Agent: public/approved — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Agent: scoped/approved — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Agent: all/none — 1 cancelled
• Smoke Call Workflow — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Claude — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Codex — 1 cancelled
• Smoke Copilot ARM64 — 1 cancelled
• Smoke Create Cross-Repo PR — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Gemini — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Multi PR — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Project — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Temporary ID — 2 cancelled
• Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR — 2 cancelled
• Agent Container Smoke Test — 2 cancelled
• Approach Validator — 2 cancelled
• Changeset Generator — 2 cancelled
• Code Refiner — 2 cancelled
• Design Decision Gate 🏗️ — 1 cancelled

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Recommendations

Priority	Action
🔴 High	Investigate Copilot CLI v1.0.21 startup failures — 2 workflows affected. Check for credential/token initialization issues inside the sandboxed container.
🟡 Medium	Add graceful handling for deleted PR branches in Design Decision Gate and Test Quality Sentinel — gate on PR state before attempting checkout.
🟡 Medium	Add retry/backoff to the pre_activation issue-locking step in AI Moderator to handle transient rate limit spikes from concurrent workflow bursts.
🟢 Low	Token telemetry gap — investigate why TokenUsage is 0 in all run summaries. May need to ensure OTEL data is written before artifact upload.

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References:

• §24158618027 — This audit run (charts + full artifacts)
• §24158398273 — Daily Workflow Updater (failure)
• §24157224934 — AI Moderator rate limit failure

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