[safe-output-health] 🏥 Safe Output Health Report - 2026-06-20

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🏥 Safe Output Health Report — 2026-06-20

Executive Summary

• Period: Last 24h (window 2026-06-19T23:26Z → 2026-06-20T05:39Z)
• Runs analyzed: 67 run directories — the broadest coverage in weeks (a full overnight batch, vs the thin 10–13-run early-morning batches of 06‐17/18/19)
• Safe-output jobs completed: 64 → 64 success, 0 hard failure, 0 cancelled, 0 in‐progress
• Safe-output jobs skipped: 3 (all explained — none are failures)
• Failed safe-output messages: 0 · Errors: 0 · Warnings: 0
• Run-level safe-output JOB success rate: 100% (64/64 executed)
• Headline cluster: none — clean day

This is the strongest "no hard failure" signal since the 06‐07 rich window: the entire Smoke suite, all 4 PR‐reviewers, and production scheduled workflows were all present and all clean — not just a thin early batch.

Safe Output Job Statistics

Outcome	Count
✅ success	64
⏭️ skipped (not a failure)	3
❌ hard failure	0
🚫 cancelled	0
⏳ in‐progress / not observable	0
Completed jobs total	64

All 67 run_summary.json reported ErrorCount=0 / WarningCount=0. (SafeItemsCount=0 everywhere is the known metrics blind spot — bash CLI‐wrapper writes are uncounted — not an absence of writes; production workflows like Sergo, Issue Monster ×4, Designer Drift did emit real writes.)

Skipped Jobs (all benign)

Run	Workflow	Why skipped
§27860467420	Code Simplifier	Upstream agent FAILED → safe_outputs skipped. Out of scope (agent-job).
§27856231040	Daily Credit Limit Test (Intentionally Broken)	Intentional canary — agent + safe_outputs skipped by design. Out of scope.
§27856015747	Auto-Triage Issues	Agent succeeded, nothing to emit → safe_outputs skipped. Run succeeded.

Error Clusters

None. Zero safe-output job hard failures and zero failed messages across the window.

Out-of-Scope Agent Failures (not safe-output failures)

4 agent-job failures — safe-output path was healthy in all

• §27860467420 Code Simplifier — agent=failure, safe_outputs=skipped.
• §27859038019 Avenger — agent=failure, safe_outputs=success via clean noop handoff (healthy failure-path).
• §27855992069 Avenger — agent=failure, safe_outputs=success via clean noop handoff.
• §27856231040 Daily Credit Limit Test — intentional broken canary.

The Avenger pair confirms the failure-path handoff still works as designed (same as 06‐06 / 06‐10): when the agent job fails, safe_outputs cleanly processes a noop rather than erroring.

Recurring Cluster Status

Cluster	Status today	Age / occurrences
review_path_unresolved_422 (Path-variant fix)	Opportunity present, NOT exercised — all 4 reviewers ran but found clean PRs (created_items=0), no review comments → no 422 to fire the fallback	UNVALIDATED 23rd consecutive audit
create_pull_request_branch_pin_dubious_ownership	Not re-exercised — jsweep ran 14.2m but read-only, emitted nothing (no PR attempted)	occurrences 1 (06‐17), OPEN
target_star_review_comment_no_pr_number_fallback	Not reproduced — full Smoke suite clean; the agentic_commands workflow_dispatch Smoke Copilot variant was absent	occurrences 2 (last 06‐15), OPEN
add_comment_discussion_resource_not_accessible_by_integration	Not reproduced — Smoke Claude clean, 0 errors	occurrences 2 (06‐14/15), OPEN
update_issue_target_triggering_default_hardfails_scheduled_run	Did NOT reproduce — LintMonster ran (schedule), safe_outputs=success, 0 errors	occurrences 1 (06‐11)
assign_to_agent_*	Likely clean — Issue Monster ran ×4, all safe_outputs=success	last clean 06‐17
hide_comment_comment_id_integer_rejected	Not exercised — AI Moderator absent	occurrences 1 (06‐19), OPEN

Root Cause Analysis

• API / permission issues: none observed. No 404/422/permission rejections in any safe-output job.
• Data validation issues: none. No collection-time rejections this window (contrast 06‐19's hide_comment int-vs-string drop).
• Logic / handler issues: none surfaced. The known soft-skip‐vs‐hard‐fail handler family (target/context resolution) was not exercised in its failing path — the carrying workflow_dispatch Smoke Copilot variant did not run.

Positive Signals

• Broadest window in weeks (67 runs) with smoke + all reviewers + production all present — still zero hard failures.
• Smoke Copilot AOAI apikey + Entra both succeeded (the 06‐15 AOAI agent-auth failures did not recur).
• Avenger failure-path noop handoff healthy (×2).
• Intentionally-broken credit-limit canary failed exactly as designed.

Recommendations / Open Work Items

These are standing, low-priority items — no new action is forced by today's clean result, but the long-latent gaps are worth closing:

1. Validate review_path_unresolved_422 Path-variant fallback (pr_review_buffer.cjs:554)

   • Priority: Medium (latency risk, not active failure)
   • Why: The body-only fallback for 'Path could not be resolved' 422 has been UNVALIDATED for 23 consecutive audits — the recovery code has never fired in production since the 2026‐05‐27 Path regression because GitHub keeps resolving all positions cleanly.
   • Action: Add a unit/integration test that feeds a synthetic 'Path could not be resolved' 422 to the buffer and asserts the body-only retry fires, rather than waiting for production to organically reproduce it.

2. Close the target/context soft-skip‐vs‐hard‐fail handler gap (family: update_issue / add_labels / remove_labels / add_comment hard-fail; create_pull_request_review_comment / reply soft-skip)

   • Priority: Medium
   • Why: Handlers still disagree on whether a missing/unresolvable trigger context is a soft-skip (⏭) or hard-fail (✗). Last reproduced 06‐14 (smoke). Not exercised today.
   • Action: Unify on soft-skip + a non-fatal warning for the no-context branch; carry the lint-monster.md target:'*' config fix.

3. Coerce hide_comment comment_id int→string at collection time (06‐19 finding)

   • Priority: Low
   • Action: Accept integer comment_id and coerce to string (parity with add_labels item_number tolerance) so a spam comment isn't left visible when the moderation action is dropped pre-actuation.

Historical Context & Trend

• 0 → 0 safe-output hard failures vs 2026‐06‐19. Production JOB streak unbroken.
• Coverage materially broader than 06‐17/18/19 (67 runs vs 10–13) yet still clean — the result is now backed by the full smoke suite + all reviewers + production, not just an early batch.
• No new clusters. The 06‐19 hide_comment finding did not recur.

Next Steps

• Add a synthetic-422 test to validate the pr_review_buffer.cjs:554 Path-variant fallback (open 23 audits).
• Unify target/context handling (soft-skip the no-context branch) across update_issue/add_labels/remove_labels/add_comment.
• (Low) Coerce integer hide_comment.comment_id to string at collection.
• Continue monitoring; next audit 2026‐06‐21.

References:

• §27860896893 — jsweep (read-only, branch-pin not re-exercised)
• §27861735307 — Matt Pocock reviewer (clean PR, 422 path unexercised)
• §27859177776 — LintMonster (update_issue cluster did not reproduce)

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