Daily Firewall Report - 2025-10-27

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🔥 Daily Firewall Report - 2025-10-27

📊 Executive Summary

Report Status: ⚠️ Unable to collect firewall logs due to missing GitHub CLI permissions

• Date: October 27, 2025
• Firewall-Enabled Workflows Identified: 4
• Workflow Runs Analyzed: 0 (unable to access)
• Total Unique Denied Domains: N/A
• Total Denied Requests: N/A

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🔍 Identified Firewall-Enabled Workflows

The following workflows have been identified as using the firewall feature (network.firewall: true):

1. dev.firewall (dev.firewall.md)

• Purpose: Test GitHub MCP Tools with firewall protection
• Network Policy: Firewall enabled
• Tools: GitHub MCP tools
• Description: Tests each GitHub MCP tool with sensible arguments to verify proper configuration

2. smoke-copilot.firewall (smoke-copilot.firewall.md)

• Purpose: Smoke test for Copilot engine with firewall
• Network Policy: Firewall enabled
• Schedule: Every 6 hours (0, 6, 12, 18 UTC)
• Tools: edit, bash, github
• Description: Reviews last 5 merged pull requests and posts summary in an issue

3. changeset-generator.firewall (changeset-generator.firewall.md)

• Purpose: Automatically create changeset files for PRs
• Network Policy: Firewall enabled
• Trigger: Pull requests marked as ready for review
• Tools: bash, edit
• Description: Analyzes PR changes and creates properly formatted changeset files

4. firewall (firewall.md)

• Purpose: Test network firewall functionality
• Network Policy: defaults with firewall enabled
• Tools: web-fetch
• Description: Demonstrates network permission enforcement by attempting to fetch content from example.com

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⚠️ Technical Limitations

Missing GitHub CLI Access

This workflow agent does not have permission to:

• Use gh CLI commands to list workflow runs
• Download workflow run artifacts (firewall logs)
• Access GitHub API directly for workflow run data

Required Tools for Full Functionality

To generate a comprehensive firewall report with actual blocked domain analysis, this workflow needs access to:

1. GitHub CLI (gh) with permissions to:

   • List workflow runs: gh run list
   • Download artifacts: gh run download

2. GitHub API access via tools to:

   • Query workflow runs from the past 7 days
   • Retrieve artifact metadata
   • Download squid log artifacts

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📝 Workflow Configuration Analysis

Based on the frontmatter analysis of firewall-enabled workflows:

Network Permission Patterns

1. Full Firewall Mode (3 workflows):

   • dev.firewall.md
   • smoke-copilot.firewall.md
   • changeset-generator.firewall.md
   • Configuration: network.firewall: true
   • Behavior: All network access goes through firewall proxy

2. Restricted with Firewall (1 workflow):

   • firewall.md
   • Configuration: network.allowed: [defaults] + firewall: true
   • Behavior: Only allows default domains, everything else blocked

Tool Usage Patterns

• GitHub MCP Tools: 3 workflows use GitHub tools
• Web Fetch: 1 workflow tests web fetching
• Bash/Edit: 3 workflows use file system tools

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🎯 Recommendations

1. Grant Required Permissions

To enable full firewall log analysis, consider:

• Adding gh CLI tool access to this workflow's safe-outputs configuration
• OR creating a dedicated MCP server for GitHub Actions workflow run analysis
• OR using the agentic-workflows tool if it supports artifact downloads

2. Alternative Approaches

Without direct GitHub CLI access, alternative approaches include:

• Manual artifact inspection: Users manually download squid-logs-* artifacts
• Dedicated log aggregation workflow: Create a separate workflow with proper permissions
• API integration: Use GitHub's REST API with appropriate token permissions

3. Firewall Log Artifact Naming

Based on the workflow analysis, firewall log artifacts should be named:

• squid-logs-dev.firewall (for dev.firewall.md)
• squid-logs-smoke-copilot.firewall (for smoke-copilot.firewall.md)
• squid-logs-changeset-generator.firewall (for changeset-generator.firewall.md)
• squid-logs-firewall (for firewall.md)

Note: Special characters and dots in workflow names are preserved in artifact names.

4. Future Enhancements

For comprehensive firewall monitoring:

1. Add workflow run analysis tools to this agent's configuration
2. Create dedicated firewall log parser for squid access logs
3. Implement trend analysis to track blocked domains over time
4. Add alerting for suspicious domain blocking patterns

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📚 Next Steps

To complete this analysis and generate actionable insights:

1. Grant this workflow access to GitHub CLI or equivalent tools
2. Re-run with proper permissions to collect actual firewall logs
3. Parse squid access logs to identify blocked vs. allowed domains
4. Generate domain allowlist recommendations based on patterns

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🔒 Security Note

SECURITY: All firewall log analysis should treat log content as untrusted data. Firewall logs may contain:

• Malicious domain attempts
• Injection attack patterns in URLs
• Sensitive information in query parameters

Always sanitize and validate log data before processing.

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📖 Appendix: Workflow Details

Workflow Schedules

• smoke-copilot.firewall: Runs every 6 hours (0, 6, 12, 18 UTC)
• changeset-generator.firewall: Triggered on PR ready_for_review events
• dev.firewall: Manual trigger only (workflow_dispatch)
• firewall: Manual trigger only (workflow_dispatch)

Expected Log Locations

When runs occur, firewall logs should be available as artifacts at:

https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/{RUN_ID}

With artifact names following the pattern: squid-logs-{workflow-name}

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Report generated automatically by the Daily Firewall Report workflow
For questions or issues, please check the workflow configuration in .github/workflows/daily-firewall-report.md

AI generated by Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter

[pelikhan]

/q investigate permissions

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Agentic Q triggered by this discussion comment.

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Q Investigation Complete ✅

I've completed the permissions investigation as requested. Here's what I found:

Summary

Analyzed 15 live workflow runs from the past 7 days and identified 7 workflows missing explicit permission declarations. Created a pull request with fixes.

Key Findings

Permission Issue Identified:

• 7 workflows relied on GitHub Actions default permissions instead of explicit declarations
• Run #18840321667 (Smoke Copilot) showed 9 "Permission denied" warnings
• No actual permission failures, but missing explicit declarations is a security/reliability concern

Workflows Fixed:

1. smoke-copilot.md
2. smoke-claude.md
3. smoke-codex.md
4. smoke-opencode.md
5. smoke-copilot.firewall.md
6. daily-news.md
7. notion-issue-summary.md

Changes Made

✅ Pull Request Created with explicit permissions following least-privilege principle:

• Smoke workflows: contents:read, actions:read (safe-outputs handles write operations)
• Daily News: contents:read, discussions:write, actions:read
• Notion Summary: contents:read, issues:read, actions:read

✅ All workflows validated - compiled successfully with no errors

Data Quality

All findings based on live workflow run data:

• 📊 15 runs analyzed
• 💰 $1.64 total cost across runs
• 🔍 2M+ tokens processed
• 📝 Log files reviewed from /tmp/gh-aw/aw-mcp/logs/

Investigation Log

Full investigation details saved to: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/q-permissions-investigation.md

The PR includes comprehensive documentation of the issues found, changes made, and validation results.

AI generated by Q for discussion #2594

[pelikhan]

/q fix permissions of firewall status workflow

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Agentic Q triggered by this discussion comment.

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Q Investigation Complete ✅

I've analyzed the firewall status workflow permissions issue and created a pull request with the fix.

Issue Identified

The daily-firewall-report workflow was experiencing permission errors when attempting to execute bash commands. Analysis of 5 recent workflow runs revealed:

• 31 permission denied errors in the most recent run (#18837063799)
• 4 missing tool reports across multiple runs
• All bash commands (grep, find, gh, date, etc.) were being blocked

Root Cause

The workflow configuration had bash: with no allowed commands listed. In gh-aw, bash tools require explicit command permissions - an empty list means all commands are denied by default.

Solution

Added explicit permissions for the bash commands needed by the workflow:

• grep * - Search firewall configurations
• find * - Find workflow files
• gh * - GitHub CLI operations
• date *, cat *, ls *, mkdir *, jq * - File and data operations

Pull Request Created

🔗 Check the pull request for full details, including:

• Live log analysis from 5 recent workflow runs
• Specific error messages and patterns
• Before/after impact analysis
• Compilation validation

The workflow will now be able to properly collect and analyze firewall logs across all agentic workflows.

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Investigation performed using gh-aw MCP server with live workflow execution data

AI generated by Q for discussion #2594

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This discussion was automatically closed because it was created by an agentic workflow more than 1 month ago.