fix(researcher): always emit a safe output when no opportunities found

[Copilot]

The Market Research Discovery workflow could complete successfully while producing zero safe outputs — triggering a false-positive failure issue — because the prompt instructed the agent to "create 0 issues" when no candidates survived validation but never required it to call noop.

Changes

• Step 3: Annotated the "0 issues" rule with an explicit forward reference requiring noop to be called
• New Step 6 — Always produce a safe output: Formalizes the invariant:
  • 1+ issues created → create-issue calls already satisfy the requirement
  • 0 issues created → agent must call noop with a brief explanation of what was reviewed and why each candidate was rejected

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>[aw] Market Research Discovery failed</issue_title>
<issue_description>### Workflow Failure

Workflow: Market Research Discovery
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/JackTreble/Web-Tools/actions/runs/23567512336

⚠️ No Safe Outputs Generated: The agent job succeeded but did not produce any safe outputs.

This typically indicates:

• The safe output server failed to run
• The prompt failed to generate any meaningful result
• The agent should have called noop to explicitly indicate no action was taken

Action Required

Option 1: Debug using any coding agent

Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.):

Debug the agentic workflow failure using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/debug.md

The failed workflow run is at https://github.com/JackTreble/Web-Tools/actions/runs/23567512336

Option 2: Assign this issue to Copilot

Assign this issue to Copilot using the agentic-workflows sub-agent to automatically debug and fix the workflow failure.

Option 3: Manually invoke the agent

Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the agentic-workflows prompt.

• Start your agent
• Load the agentic-workflows prompt from .github/agents/agentic-workflows.agent.md or https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/.github/agents/agentic-workflows.agent.md
• Type debug the agentic workflow researcher failure in https://github.com/JackTreble/Web-Tools/actions/runs/23567512336

[!TIP]
To stop a workflow from creating failure issues, set report-failure-as-issue: false in its frontmatter:

safe-outputs:
  report-failure-as-issue: false

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• expires on Apr 1, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes [aw] Market Research Discovery failed #15

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