Fix stale gh-aw-actions/setup pin causing "activation" job failure - #14842
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[WIP] Fix failing GitHub Actions job activation
Fix stale gh-aw-actions/setup pin causing "activation" job failure
Aug 26, 2026
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Pull request overview
This PR addresses failures in the repository’s scheduled agentic workflows by reverting the github/gh-aw-actions/setup action pin in generated *.agent.lock.yml workflows to a SHA that still contains the legacy create_prompt_first.sh flow those lock files invoke.
Changes:
- Re-pins
github/gh-aw-actions/setup@...toca8678ca22a7aab577514482576720da641e5661across the affected*.agent.lock.ymlworkflows. - Updates
.gitattributeshandling for*.lock.ymlworkflows (removesmerge=ours). - Deletes
.github/aw/actions-lock.json(note: this contradicts the PR description’s claim that it is the “intended pin” source-of-truth).
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| File | Description |
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| .github/workflows/review.agent.lock.yml | Re-pins github/gh-aw-actions/setup to the older SHA used by the lock workflow’s script-based prompt creation. |
| .github/workflows/review-on-open.agent.lock.yml | Same pin rollback for the on-open lock workflow. |
| .github/workflows/flaky-test-fixer.agent.lock.yml | Same pin rollback for flaky-test-fixer lock workflow. |
| .github/workflows/flaky-test-detector.agent.lock.yml | Same pin rollback for flaky-test-detector lock workflow. |
| .github/workflows/close-stale-prs.agent.lock.yml | Same pin rollback for close-stale-prs lock workflow. |
| .github/aw/actions-lock.json | Removed entirely (discrepancy with the PR description’s “lock cache/source of truth” narrative). |
| .gitattributes | Stops using merge=ours for *.lock.yml, changing merge behavior for generated lock files. |
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| # - actions/setup-node@820762786026740c76f36085b0efc47a31fe5020 # v7.0.0 | ||
| # - actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7.0.1 | ||
| # - github/gh-aw-actions/setup@b304200a0ef4b3998673bfc7945acb08ab8c88b7 | ||
| # - github/gh-aw-actions/setup@ca8678ca22a7aab577514482576720da641e5661 |
| *.verified.txt text eol=lf working-tree-encoding=UTF-8 | ||
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| .github/workflows/*.lock.yml linguist-generated=true merge=ours No newline at end of file | ||
| .github/workflows/*.lock.yml linguist-generated=true No newline at end of file |
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…14938) The ignore rule for `github/gh-aw-actions` stopped matching: Dependabot began treating sub-path actions as separate dependencies. Since then four Dependabot bumps have slipped through and broken the agentic workflows. #14842, #14870 and #14935 were the repairs. These pins are generated by `gh aw compile` and must not be bumped on their own. ### Changes Made - Use the wildcard form documented by gh-aw, which also matches `/setup` and `/setup-cli`. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Context
The scheduled agentic workflows' "activation" job (Flaky Test Auto-Fixer, run 32972548671 / job 98189616429) failed at the "Create prompt with built-in context" step:
The compiled
.lock.ymlfiles pinnedgithub/gh-aw-actions/setup@b304200a0ef4b3998673bfc7945acb08ab8c88b7— the tag object forgh-aw-actionsrelease v0.87.2, which droppedcreate_prompt_first.shin favor of a.cjs-based prompt-creation flow. The generated workflow body still relies on the old script (consistent with compiler v0.82.13), and the repo's own.github/aw/actions-lock.jsoncorrectly records the intended pin as v0.82.9 (ca8678ca22a7aab577514482576720da641e5661). Theuses:SHA had drifted far ahead of both the generated content and the lock cache.Changes Made
github/gh-aw-actions/setup@...toca8678ca22a7aab577514482576720da641e5661(v0.82.9, matching.github/aw/actions-lock.json) across all affected lock files:.github/workflows/flaky-test-fixer.agent.lock.yml.github/workflows/flaky-test-detector.agent.lock.yml.github/workflows/review.agent.lock.yml.github/workflows/review-on-open.agent.lock.yml.github/workflows/close-stale-prs.agent.lock.ymlTesting
.lock.ymlfiles exists at the restored SHA (ca8678ca22a7aab577514482576720da641e5661)Notes
dreaming.agent.lock.ymluses a different setup mechanism (checks outgithub/gh-awdirectly) and was not affected.