[safe-output-health] Safe Output Health Report — 2026-06-09 (8th consecutive clean day)

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🏥 Safe Output Health Report — 2026-06-09

Eighth consecutive CLEAN day for safe-output job health. Across a thin early-morning window (10 run directories, 05:12Z–05:35Z), 0 safe-output job hard failures. All actuation centered on a single PR — #38020 (shared linter AST-helper consolidation) — which triggered the full PR-reviewer suite. The standing review_path_unresolved_422 cluster was exercised and clean for the 2nd consecutive audit.

⚠️ Window caveat: partial early-morning batch. Downstream safe_outputs JOB logs were not pre-bundled and were fetched per-run via the audit MCP tool for the 3 real-write runs. 3 runs (OTLP Data Quality Validator, Release, this self-monitor) had only prompts+base at capture (agent in_progress/skipped). 2026-06-08 was not audited (1-day gap). Daily totals are a lower bound.

Executive Summary

• Period: 2026-06-09, 05:12Z–05:35Z (partial)
• Run directories: 10 (6 copilot, 3 claude, 1 self)
• Safe-output jobs audited (real writes): 3 — all success
• Hard failures: 0
• Messages observed: 16 (13 real writes + 3 noop) — 0 failed actuation
• Collection-time validation rejections: 0
• Observable job success rate: 100%

Safe Output Job Statistics

Run	Workflow	Outputs	Result
27185326105	Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer	5× review_comment + 1× submit_review (COMMENT)	✅ 6/6, review #4455527892
27185326121	Test Quality Sentinel	add_comment + submit_review (REQUEST_CHANGES)	✅ 2/2, review #4455510820
27185326090	Design Decision Gate	push_to_pull_request_branch + add_comment	✅ 2/2, commit 4f21bb4
27185825457	PR Sous Chef	noop (processed 2 PRs, all skipped)	✅
27185441287	Step Name Alignment	noop (no issues filed)	✅
27185317413	Smoke CI	noop (push, no PR context)	✅
27185326098	PR Code Quality Reviewer	empty items:[] (no findings)	✅ skip by design

Headline Positive — review_path_unresolved_422 exercised + clean

Matt Pocock run 27185326105 emitted 5 line/path-anchored create_pull_request_review_comment (anchored to astutil_test.go:54, astutil.go:41, astutil.go:31, errstringmatch.go:116, validation_target_validation.go:30) plus a submit_pull_request_review (COMMENT). The Process Safe Outputs step buffered all 5 and submitted them as a single review #4455527892 — Total 6, Successful 6, Failed 0, with no "Path/Line could not be resolved" 422. Test Quality Sentinel also submitted a REQUEST_CHANGES review on the same (non-own) PR with no 422 downgrade. This is the 2nd consecutive clean exercise after the 06-07 at-scale run.

📌 Standing gap unchanged: because GitHub resolved every position and returned no 422, the body-only fallback predicate at actions/setup/js/pr_review_buffer.cjs:554 was again not triggered. The Path-variant fix remains technically UNVALIDATED for the 12th consecutive audit — the recovery path has never fired in production since the 2026-05-27 Path regression.

New Low-Severity Observation (in-scope, no runtime impact)

push_branch_protection_check_403_nonfatal — Design Decision Gate

Design Decision Gate run 27185326090 push_to_pull_request_branch logged a non-fatal warning before pushing: a GET /branches/{branch}/protection returned 403 "Resource not accessible by integration", producing ##[warning]Could not check branch protection rules ... (insufficient permissions).

The handler then pushed signed commit 4f21bb43 successfully (1 file, +41). The integration token lacks branch-protection read scope, so the pre-push protection check degrades gracefully and does not block the push. No runtime impact, Failed: 0. Tracked as a low-severity cosmetic — worth a one-line log clarification noting the check is best-effort, so a future reader does not mistake the 403 warning for a push regression.

Recurring Cluster Status

Cluster	Status today
review_path_unresolved_422	✅ Exercised + clean (2nd consecutive); Path-variant fix unvalidated (12th audit)
assign_to_agent_literal_issue_number_guess_unresolved	Latent — not exercised
target_star_review_comment_no_pr_number_fallback	Not exercised (review comments had resolvable PR context)
target_star_add_comment_no_item_number_fallback	Not exercised
cancellation_counter_mislabeled_code_push_failed	Not exercised (no WTD3 abort)
own_pr_review_event_422_retry_comment	Not exercised (reviews on non-own PR, no downgrade)

Recommendations

1. (Outstanding, low priority) Land the one-line predicate fix at pr_review_buffer.cjs:554 to also match "Path could not be resolved", with a mirror unit test. Happy path is healthy, but the Path-variant recovery code has now gone 12 audits without ever firing — a latent regression risk if GitHub returns the Path variant again.
2. (New, very low) Soften the branch-protection 403 in push_to_pull_request_branch to an informational note (it is best-effort and the token intentionally lacks the scope), so the ##[warning] is not mistaken for a push failure in future audits.

Trends

• Error rate: stable at 0 (8 clean audits: 06-01..06-07 and 06-09; 06-08 unaudited).
• Most-exercised path: PR-reviewer review-comment submission — healthy two audits running.
• No new failure clusters.

References: §27185326105 · §27185326121 · §27185326090

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