Optimize Smoke Claude workflow token footprint and turn budget

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Smoke Claude was carrying unnecessary first-turn context (unused MCP tool schemas) and spending agent turns on deterministic checks. This change reduces per-run token overhead by trimming workflow context and moving predictable work into pre-agent steps.

• Tooling + network surface reduction

  • Removed github MCP tool configuration from smoke-claude.md (agent uses gh via bash in this workflow).
  • Removed github from network.allowed, keeping playwright.

• Deterministic checks moved out of agent turns

  • Added pre-agent step to fetch merged PR metadata once into /tmp/gh-aw/agent/recent-prs.json.
  • Added pre-agent file verification step for /tmp/gh-aw/agent/smoke-test-claude-${{ github.run_id }}.txt.
  • Prompt now asks the agent to read/confirm precomputed outputs instead of performing the fetch/write verification logic inline.

• Turn budget tightening

  • Reduced Claude max-turns from 12 to 8 to cap runaway-cost scenarios while preserving observed run headroom.

• Compiled artifact refresh

  • Regenerated and postprocessed .github/workflows/smoke-claude.lock.yml to reflect the source workflow updates.

engine:
  id: claude
  model: claude-haiku-4-5
  max-turns: 8

network:
  allowed:
    - playwright

tools:
  playwright:
  bash:
    - "*"

steps:
  - name: Pre-fetch GitHub API data
    run: |
      gh pr list --repo ${{ github.repository }} --limit 2 --state merged --json number,title,mergedAt \
        > /tmp/gh-aw/agent/recent-prs.json

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🧪 Smoke Test: Copilot BYOK (Offline) Mode

Test	Status
1. GitHub MCP connectivity	❌ (401 — MCP not authenticated in this run)
2. GitHub.com HTTP connectivity	⚠️ (template vars not expanded, data unavailable)
3. File write/read	⚠️ (template vars not expanded, data unavailable)
4. BYOK inference (agent responding)	✅

Running in BYOK offline mode (COPILOT_OFFLINE=true) via api-proxy → api.githubcopilot.com.

Overall: FAIL — pre-step template variables were not substituted; smoke-data outputs unavailable.

🔑 BYOK report filed by Smoke Copilot BYOK

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Smoke Test Results

✅ GitHub API: 2 PR entries confirmed in recent-prs.json
✅ Playwright: GitHub.com navigation successful (title contains 'GitHub')
✅ File verify: smoke-test-claude-26037647647.txt exists

Result: PASS — All smoke tests passed.

💥 [THE END] — Illustrated by Smoke Claude

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🔬 Smoke Test Results

Test	Result
GitHub MCP connectivity	❌ 401 Bad credentials
GitHub.com HTTP connectivity	⚠️ Pre-step data not available (template vars unexpanded)
File write/read	⚠️ Pre-step data not available (template vars unexpanded)

Overall: FAIL — GitHub MCP auth failed; workflow template variables were not substituted before agent execution.

📰 BREAKING: Report filed by Smoke Copilot

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Smoke Test Results\n- GitHub MCP Testing: ❌ (mcpscripts not found)\n- GitHub.com Connectivity: ❌ (SSL error 35)\n- File Writing Testing: ✅\n- Bash Tool Testing: ✅\n\nOverall status: FAIL

Warning

Firewall blocked 1 domain

The following domain was blocked by the firewall during workflow execution:

• localhost

To allow these domains, add them to the network.allowed list in your workflow frontmatter:

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "localhost"

See Network Configuration for more information.

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Smoke Test: FAIL
Merged PRs: fix: resolve test failures on macOS | fix: postprocess claude-token-optimizer lock file to use local awf build
Queried PRs: Refactor COPILOT_MODEL resolution to remove duplicated env precedence logic | refactor: extract shared service test imports into service-test-setup.test-utils
GitHub PR review ✅; Safe Inputs GH CLI ❌; Playwright ✅; Tavily ❌
File write ✅; Bash read ✅; Discussion comment ✅; Build ✅
Overall status: FAIL

Warning

Firewall blocked 1 domain

The following domain was blocked by the firewall during workflow execution:

• registry.npmjs.org

To allow these domains, add them to the network.allowed list in your workflow frontmatter:

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "registry.npmjs.org"

See Network Configuration for more information.

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Pull request overview

This PR aims to reduce the Smoke Claude workflow’s per-run token overhead and agent turn usage by removing unused GitHub MCP tooling context and moving deterministic checks into pre-agent workflow steps, while tightening the maximum turn budget.

Changes:

• Reduced Claude max-turns from 12 to 8 and updated the smoke-test prompt to rely on precomputed artifacts.
• Added pre-agent steps to (a) prefetch recent merged PR metadata into /tmp/gh-aw/agent/recent-prs.json and (b) verify the smoke-test file exists.
• Regenerated .github/workflows/smoke-claude.lock.yml to reflect the updated source workflow.

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File	Description
.github/workflows/smoke-claude.md	Trims workflow context, adds pre-agent deterministic checks, and tightens agent turn budget.
.github/workflows/smoke-claude.lock.yml	Compiled artifact refresh reflecting (and operationalizing) the workflow changes.

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.github/workflows/smoke-claude.lock.yml:730

• This lock file now starts a github MCP server (and wires GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN/guard policies), which contradicts the PR goal of removing GitHub MCP tooling from the Smoke Claude workflow. If the workflow is intended to use gh in pre-agent steps and have the agent only read /tmp/gh-aw/agent/recent-prs.json, remove the github MCP server from the generated MCP config and drop the associated secret/env plumbing to avoid reintroducing tool-schema/token overhead and network surface.

              "github": {
                "container": "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server:v1.0.3",
                "env": {
                  "GITHUB_HOST": "$GITHUB_SERVER_URL",
                  "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "$GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN",
                  "GITHUB_READ_ONLY": "1",
                  "GITHUB_TOOLSETS": "context,repos,issues,pull_requests"
                },

.github/workflows/smoke-claude.lock.yml:906

• Even after removing tools.github from the source workflow, the agent invocation still allowlists a large set of mcp__github__* tools. If GitHub MCP is no longer required for this smoke test, the compiled --allowed-tools list should drop mcp__github__* to realize the intended first-turn token savings; otherwise the workflow will still carry the GitHub tool schemas in context.

          sudo -E awf --config "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json" --container-workdir "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}" --mount "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:ro" --mount "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:/host${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:ro" --tty --env-all --exclude-env ANTHROPIC_API_KEY --exclude-env GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN --exclude-env MCP_GATEWAY_API_KEY --log-level info --proxy-logs-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs --audit-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit --session-state-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/agent/session-state --enable-host-access --allow-host-ports 80,443,8080 --skip-pull \
            -- /bin/bash -c 'export PATH="${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/mcp-cli/bin:$PATH" && export PATH="$(find /opt/hostedtoolcache /home/runner/work/_tool -maxdepth 4 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true && GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="${GH_AW_NODE_BIN:-}"; if [ -z "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ] || [ ! -x "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ]; then GH_AW_NODE_EXEC="$(command -v node 2>/dev/null || echo node)"; fi; "$GH_AW_NODE_EXEC" ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/actions/claude_harness.cjs claude --print --no-chrome --max-turns 8 --mcp-config "${{ runner.temp }}/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json" --allowed-tools Bash,BashOutput,Edit,ExitPlanMode,Glob,Grep,KillBash,LS,MultiEdit,NotebookEdit,NotebookRead,Read,Task,TodoWrite,Write,mcp__github__download_workflow_run_artifact,mcp__github__get_code_scanning_alert,mcp__github__get_commit,mcp__github__get_dependabot_alert,mcp__github__get_discussion,mcp__github__get_discussion_comments,mcp__github__get_file_contents,mcp__github__get_job_logs,mcp__github__get_label,mcp__github__get_latest_release,mcp__github__get_me,mcp__github__get_notification_details,mcp__github__get_pull_request,mcp__github__get_pull_request_comments,mcp__github__get_pull_request_diff,mcp__github__get_pull_request_files,mcp__github__get_pull_request_review_comments,mcp__github__get_pull_request_reviews,mcp__github__get_pull_request_status,mcp__github__get_release_by_tag,mcp__github__get_secret_scanning_alert,mcp__github__get_tag,mcp__github__get_workflow_run,mcp__github__get_workflow_run_logs,mcp__github__get_workflow_run_usage,mcp__github__issue_read,mcp__github__list_branches,mcp__github__list_code_scanning_alerts,mcp__github__list_commits,mcp__github__list_dependabot_alerts,mcp__github__list_discussion_categories,mcp__github__list_discussions,mcp__github__list_issue_types,mcp__github__list_issues,mcp__github__list_label,mcp__github__list_notifications,mcp__github__list_pull_requests,mcp__github__list_releases,mcp__github__list_secret_scanning_alerts,mcp__github__list_starred_repositories,mcp__github__list_tags,mcp__github__list_workflow_jobs,mcp__github__list_workflow_run_artifacts,mcp__github__list_workflow_runs,mcp__github__list_workflows,mcp__github__pull_request_read,mcp__github__search_code,mcp__github__search_issues,mcp__github__search_orgs,mcp__github__search_pull_requests,mcp__github__search_repositories,mcp__github__search_users,mcp__playwright__browser_click,mcp__playwright__browser_close,mcp__playwright__browser_console_messages,mcp__playwright__browser_drag,mcp__playwright__browser_evaluate,mcp__playwright__browser_file_upload,mcp__playwright__browser_fill_form,mcp__playwright__browser_handle_dialog,mcp__playwright__browser_hover,mcp__playwright__browser_install,mcp__playwright__browser_navigate,mcp__playwright__browser_navigate_back,mcp__playwright__browser_network_requests,mcp__playwright__browser_press_key,mcp__playwright__browser_resize,mcp__playwright__browser_select_option,mcp__playwright__browser_snapshot,mcp__playwright__browser_tabs,mcp__playwright__browser_take_screenshot,mcp__playwright__browser_type,mcp__playwright__browser_wait_for,mcp__safeoutputs --debug-file /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log --verbose --permission-mode bypassPermissions --output-format stream-json --prompt-file /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log

• Files reviewed: 2/2 changed files
• Comments generated: 1

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🏗️ Build Test Suite Results

Ecosystem	Project	Build/Install	Tests	Status
Bun	elysia	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Bun	hono	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
C++	fmt	✅	N/A	✅ PASS
C++	json	✅	N/A	✅ PASS
Deno	oak	N/A	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Deno	std	N/A	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
.NET	hello-world	✅	N/A	✅ PASS
.NET	json-parse	✅	N/A	✅ PASS
Go	color	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Go	env	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Go	uuid	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Java	gson	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Java	caffeine	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Node.js	clsx	✅	All passed	✅ PASS
Node.js	execa	✅	All passed	✅ PASS
Node.js	p-limit	✅	All passed	✅ PASS
Rust	fd	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Rust	zoxide	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS

Overall: 8/8 ecosystems passed — ✅ PASS

Generated by Build Test Suite for issue #3321 · ● 6.7M · ◷

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Smoke Test: GitHub Actions Services Connectivity

Check	Result
Redis PING	❌ No response (timeout)
PostgreSQL pg_isready	❌ no response
PostgreSQL SELECT 1	❌ No response (timeout)

Overall: FAIL — host.docker.internal is not reachable from this runner environment. Service containers may not be running or the host alias is not available.

🔌 Service connectivity validated by Smoke Services