🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - 2025-10-12

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🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - 2025-10-12

Audit Summary

• Period: Last 24 hours
• Runs Analyzed: 42
• Workflows Active: 27
• Success Rate: 57.1% (24 successful, 14 failed, 1 cancelled, 3 in progress)
• Total Cost (24h): $9.906
• Total Tokens: 15.2M
• Total Errors: 285
• Total Warnings: 72
• Issues Found: 3 critical

🚨 Critical Issues

1. HIGH PRIORITY: Smoke GenAIScript Workflow Failures

Status: 🔴 Active
Impact: 6 consecutive failures (100% failure rate)
Affected Runs: 18439469258, 18439189171, 18437391356, 18437356919, 18437338677, 18434697798

Root Cause:

LLM error (413): Request body too large for gpt-4o-mini model. Max size: 8000 tokens.

The workflow attempts to review the last 5 merged pull requests, but the combined context (PR diffs, descriptions, comments) exceeds GitHub's gpt-4o-mini 8000 token limit.

Recommendation:

• Option A: Reduce the number of PRs from 5 to 2-3 in .github/workflows/smoke-genaiscript.md:25
• Option B: Switch model from github:gpt-4o-mini to github:gpt-4o in .github/workflows/shared/genaiscript.md:6

Workflow File: .github/workflows/smoke-genaiscript.md

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2. MEDIUM PRIORITY: Permission-Restricted-Tool Errors

Status: 🟡 Active
Impact: 102 occurrences in Agentic Workflow Audit Agent runs
Severity: Medium

Description:
The audit agent is attempting to use tools outside its allowed toolset, resulting in permission denied errors. This indicates the agent is trying to access restricted functionality.

Related Issues:

• codex-agent: 42 permission denied errors
• github-copilot-cli: 24 permission denied errors

Recommendation:
Review the Agentic Workflow Audit Agent's tool configuration and ensure it only requests tools within its allowed scope. These permission errors may indicate:

1. The agent needs additional tool permissions
2. The agent's prompts should be refined to avoid requesting unavailable tools
3. Tool allowlists need updating

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3. RESOLVED: gh-aw MCP Server Configuration

Status: ✅ Resolved
Impact: 4 previous audit runs failed
Affected Runs: 18436691005, 18436490120, 18435658379, 18434867899

Resolution:
The gh-aw MCP server is now properly configured and working in the current environment. Previous audit failures were due to missing MCP server configuration, but this has been resolved.

📊 Performance Metrics

Cost Analysis (24 hours)

• Total Cost: $9.906
• Highest Single Run: Lockfile Statistics (run 18438447308) - $1.342
• Average Cost per Run: $0.68 (Claude-based workflows only)

Top Workflows by Cost

1. Lockfile Statistics: $1.342 (1 run, 2.33M tokens, 106 turns)
2. Agentic Workflow Audit Agent: ~$0.84 avg (7 runs, low success rate)
3. GitHub MCP Remote Tools Report: $0.489 avg (2 runs, 100% success)
4. Changeset Generator: $0.317 avg (7 runs, 85.7% success)

Success Rates by Workflow

• 100% Success: Dev, GitHub MCP Remote Tools Report, CLI Version Checker, Duplicate Code Detector, Lockfile Statistics
• 85.7% Success: Changeset Generator (1 failure out of 7 runs)
• 80.0% Success: Tidy (2 failures out of 10 runs)
• 14.3% Success: Agentic Workflow Audit Agent (6 failures out of 7 runs, due to resolved MCP issues)
• 0% Success: Smoke GenAIScript (6 failures out of 6 runs, active issue)

🔧 Missing Tools & MCP Failures

Missing Tool Reports (169 total)

Tool	Occurrences	Workflows	Status
permission-restricted-tool	102	Agentic Workflow Audit Agent	Active
codex-agent	42	Agentic Workflow Audit Agent	Active
github-copilot-cli	24	Agentic Workflow Audit Agent	Active
gh-aw MCP server	1	Agentic Workflow Audit Agent	Resolved

MCP Server Failures

Server	Failures	Workflows	Status
gh-aw	4	Agentic Workflow Audit Agent	Resolved

✅ Recommendations

Immediate Actions

1. Fix Smoke GenAIScript (High Priority)

   • Modify workflow to review fewer PRs or upgrade model
   • File: .github/workflows/smoke-genaiscript.md

2. Investigate Permission Errors (Medium Priority)

   • Review Agentic Workflow Audit Agent tool configuration
   • Update tool allowlists if needed
   • Refine agent prompts to avoid requesting unavailable tools

3. Monitor Changeset Generator (Low Priority)

   • 85.7% success rate indicates mostly stable
   • Review failed runs to identify patterns

4. Monitor Tidy Workflow (Low Priority)

   • 80% success rate with occasional failures
   • Determine if failures are transient or systemic

Positive Trends

• gh-aw MCP server is now working correctly
• Multiple workflows (Dev, GitHub MCP Remote Tools Report, CLI Version Checker, etc.) have 100% success rates
• Cost efficiency is reasonable at ~$10/day for 42 workflow runs

📈 Historical Context

This is the first successful audit with comprehensive log analysis from the gh-aw MCP server. Future audits will include trend analysis and historical comparisons.

🔗 Artifacts

Audit data has been saved to cache memory:

• /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/2025-10-12.json
• /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/audits/index.json

Next Steps

• Fix Smoke GenAIScript token limit issue
• Review and resolve permission-restricted-tool errors
• Continue monitoring workflow stability
• Track trends in future audits

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Audit completed: 2025-10-12T05:07:00Z
Audit agent: Agentic Workflow Audit Agent
Log files analyzed: 42 workflow runs

AI generated by Agentic Workflow Audit Agent

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