Raise Repo Assist AI credit budget to 1500 to stop budget-guardrail failure issues by Copilot · Pull Request #7883 · github/gh-aw-mcpg

Copilot · 2026-06-21T15:56:55Z

Repo Assist scheduled runs were exceeding the per-run AI credit cap (1.2K used vs 1K configured), causing repeated “AI credits rate limit” failure issue creation despite successful workflow execution. This change aligns the workflow’s configured budget with observed run cost.

Workflow budget update
- Added an explicit per-run budget in source workflow frontmatter:
  - .github/workflows/repo-assist.md → max-ai-credits: 1500
Compiled workflow alignment
- Recompiled .github/workflows/repo-assist.lock.yml so runtime AWF config and failure-context env both use 1500 for GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS.
- This keeps generated runtime enforcement and issue metadata consistent with the source workflow budget.

# .github/workflows/repo-assist.md
timeout-minutes: 60
max-ai-credits: 1500
permissions: read-all

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Pull request overview

Adjusts the Repo Assist agentic workflow’s configured per-run AI credit budget so scheduled runs no longer hit the budget guardrail and create “AI credits rate limit” failure issues despite otherwise-successful execution.

Changes:

Adds max-ai-credits: 1500 to the source workflow frontmatter (repo-assist.md).
Recompiles the locked workflow to enforce maxAiCredits: 1500 at runtime and propagate GH_AW_MAX_AI_CREDITS=1500 into failure-context env.

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File	Description
.github/workflows/repo-assist.md	Sets the source-of-truth per-run AI credit budget to 1500 via frontmatter.
.github/workflows/repo-assist.lock.yml	Updates the compiled workflow/runtime config to enforce a 1500 credit cap and keep failure-context metadata consistent.

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+# gh-aw-metadata: {"schema_version":"v4","frontmatter_hash":"2608411f54f83dbc0ef43781afbf22b22c73614526e9a8a79c948238c4fd0459","body_hash":"b650bc2164f4675fdf55f265904a4714f72dbbb3c13a333ab03cf46b531a45bf","compiler_version":"v0.79.8","strict":true,"agent_id":"copilot","engine_versions":{"copilot":"1.0.60"}}
+# gh-aw-manifest: {"version":1,"secrets":["COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN","GH_AW_CI_TRIGGER_TOKEN","GH_AW_GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN","GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN","GITHUB_TOKEN"],"actions":[{"repo":"actions/checkout","sha":"df4cb1c069e1874edd31b4311f1884172cec0e10","version":"v6.0.3"},{"repo":"actions/download-artifact","sha":"3e5f45b2cfb9172054b4087a40e8e0b5a5461e7c","version":"v8.0.1"},{"repo":"actions/github-script","sha":"3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3","version":"v9.0.0"},{"repo":"actions/upload-artifact","sha":"043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a","version":"v7.0.1"},{"repo":"github/gh-aw-actions/setup","sha":"v0.79.8","version":"v0.79.8"}],"containers":[{"image":"ghcr.io/github/gh-aw-firewall/agent:0.27.2","digest":"sha256:f88e5b17b6b7a600117bc121114d6ce2155c88c983c0c939c5df884f730fa1d6","pinned_image":"ghcr.io/github/gh-aw-firewall/agent:0.27.2@sha256:f88e5b17b6b7a600117bc121114d6ce2155c88c983c0c939c5df884f730fa1d6"},{"image":"ghcr.io/github/gh-aw-firewall/api-proxy:0.27.2","digest":"sha256:ee39841d980878ebbb87592903b06d31a1af500c71525c9616f7e8e2a27041a4","pinned_image":"ghcr.io/github/gh-aw-firewall/api-proxy:0.27.2@sha256:ee39841d980878ebbb87592903b06d31a1af500c71525c9616f7e8e2a27041a4"},{"image":"ghcr.io/github/gh-aw-firewall/squid:0.27.2","digest":"sha256:2e3a717e5f19a654cd9a2263beb52012b56bcb68562ec5ae2e42f9d156b49591","pinned_image":"ghcr.io/github/gh-aw-firewall/squid:0.27.2@sha256:2e3a717e5f19a654cd9a2263beb52012b56bcb68562ec5ae2e42f9d156b49591"},{"image":"ghcr.io/github/gh-aw-mcpg:v0.3.25","digest":"sha256:c10331ad17668ef89f38f5e356678788a40b0cd5fef96e8f92e1d9c1de47cbaa","pinned_image":"ghcr.io/github/gh-aw-mcpg:v0.3.25@sha256:c10331ad17668ef89f38f5e356678788a40b0cd5fef96e8f92e1d9c1de47cbaa"},{"image":"ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server:v1.1.2","digest":"sha256:30197479d8036c7811892bc07e06f9a05c9ef3cdd79bc59f256d50647f95788c","pinned_image":"ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server:v1.1.2@sha256:30197479d8036c7811892bc07e06f9a05c9ef3cdd79bc59f256d50647f95788c"}]}


      - name: Setup Scripts
        id: setup
-        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@5c2fe865bb4dc46e1450f6ee0d0541d759aea73a # v0.79.6
+        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@v0.79.8


      - name: Setup Scripts
        id: setup
-        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@5c2fe865bb4dc46e1450f6ee0d0541d759aea73a # v0.79.6
+        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@v0.79.8


      - name: Setup Scripts
        id: setup
-        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@5c2fe865bb4dc46e1450f6ee0d0541d759aea73a # v0.79.6
+        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@v0.79.8


      - name: Setup Scripts
        id: setup
-        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@5c2fe865bb4dc46e1450f6ee0d0541d759aea73a # v0.79.6
+        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@v0.79.8


      - name: Setup Scripts
        id: setup
-        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@5c2fe865bb4dc46e1450f6ee0d0541d759aea73a # v0.79.6
+        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@v0.79.8


      - name: Setup Scripts
        id: setup
-        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@5c2fe865bb4dc46e1450f6ee0d0541d759aea73a # v0.79.6
+        uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@v0.79.8


lpcox · 2026-06-21T17:13:45Z

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Copilot · 2026-06-21T17:15:36Z

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Done — all six uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup references in repo-assist.lock.yml (plus the manifest sha field and the actions comment block) have been updated from the mutable tag @v0.79.8 to the immutable commit SHA @c0338fef4749d08c21f8f975fb0e37efa17dda47 # v0.79.8, matching the pattern used by the other locked workflows in this repo.

Commit: c8e95e4 (or whichever short hash was just pushed)

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

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Increase Repo Assist max AI credits to 1500

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chore: recompile repo-assist workflow with gh-aw v0.80.6

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chore: resolve merge conflict in actions-lock.json, recompile

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