[safe-output-health] Safe Output Health Monitor Daily Audit 2026-08-11: 0 safe-output failures across 210 runs

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Executive Summary

Audited all 210 agentic workflow runs from the last 24 hours (window ending 2026-08-11 04:23 UTC) across 80 distinct workflows in github/gh-aw, scoped strictly to safe-output job health (the consolidated safe_outputs job and its Process Safe Outputs / Upload Safe Outputs Items steps). Result: zero safe-output job failures. The safe_outputs job ran in all 210 runs, completing successfully in 197 (93.8%) and cleanly skipping in 13 (6.2%, all on scheduled "Daily *" analysis workflows with no actionable output that run — expected no-op behavior, not a defect). No cancellations, no partial failures, no retries observed at this job level.

Separately (noted for cross-reference only, out of scope for this monitor): 103 of 210 runs (49.0%) had an agent job failure — almost entirely Execute Claude Code CLI / Execute GitHub Copilot CLI / Ingest agent output step failures. This is a real reliability signal but belongs to the agent-job health monitor, not this audit.

Safe Output Job Statistics

Metric	Value
Total workflow runs analyzed	210
Distinct workflows	80
safe_outputs job executions	210
— Success	197 (93.8%)
— Skipped (no actionable output)	13 (6.2%)
— Failure	0 (0%)
— Cancelled	0 (0%)
Process Safe Outputs step failures	0
Upload Safe Outputs Items step failures	0
Success rate among executed jobs (excl. skips)	100% (197/197)

Skip pattern detail (13 runs)

All 13 skips landed on scheduled "Daily ..." reporting/analysis workflows where the agent produced no actionable output that run, so the safe_outputs job correctly no-op'd rather than failing:

Daily Cache Strategy Analyzer, Daily Compiler Quality Check, Daily AstroStyleLite Markdown Spellcheck, Daily Code Debt Cleanup — Aider, Daily Code Metrics and Trend Tracking Agent, Daily AWF Spec Compiler Surfacing Review, Daily Caveman Optimizer, Daily action/setup/* Security Audit, Daily Community Attribution Updater, Daily BYOK Ollama Test, Daily Documentation Healer, Daily Ambient Context Optimizer, Daily Credit Limit Test.

Error Clusters & Root Cause Analysis

No safe-output error clusters identified this period. Every one of the 210 run_summary.json job-level and step-level failure records inspected (103 total conclusion: "failure" job records, cross-checked line-by-line) belonged to the agent job (steps: Execute Claude Code CLI, Execute GitHub Copilot CLI, Ingest agent output, Start MCP Gateway, Pre-fetch ADR gate PR context, Parse agent logs for step summary, Download SBOM from GitHub Dependency Graph API) — none in safe_outputs. This is a clean bill of health for the safe-output pipeline specifically.

Recommendations

Critical: None. No safe-output failures require immediate action.

Bug Fixes: None identified — no safe-output defects observed in this window.

Config Changes: None required — current skip-on-no-output behavior for the 13 "Daily *" runs is correct and intentional.

Process Improvements:

1. run_summary.json job_details carries structured status/conclusion per step but no raw stdout/stderr text. If a safe-output failure does occur in a future period, root-causing will be limited to step names only. Recommend capturing a trimmed stderr tail per failed step in the artifact set.
2. This monitor's own task template assumes safe outputs surface as separate per-type jobs (create_discussion, create_issue, add_comment, etc.). The actual architecture is one consolidated safe_outputs job with internal steps Process Safe Outputs / Upload Safe Outputs Items. Recommend updating this monitor's prompt/template to match the real job topology so future audits don't need to rediscover this each run.
3. The 49.0% agent-job failure rate (103/210) observed in the same run set is a significant reliability signal that falls outside this monitor's mandate — recommend routing it to whichever workflow owns agent-job health monitoring.

Work Item Plans

WI-1: Add raw stderr capture for safe_outputs job steps

• Rationale: enables root-cause analysis if/when a safe-output failure occurs, without which future audits can only report step names, not error text.
• Acceptance criteria: run_summary.json (or a sibling artifact) includes the last N lines of stderr for Process Safe Outputs and Upload Safe Outputs Items whenever conclusion != success.
• Priority: Process improvement, non-blocking.

WI-2: Align Safe Output Health Monitor template with consolidated safe_outputs job architecture

• Rationale: avoids re-deriving the correct job/step names every audit run.
• Acceptance criteria: monitor prompt references job name safe_outputs and steps Process Safe Outputs / Upload Safe Outputs Items explicitly, not per-type job names.
• Priority: Documentation/process, non-blocking.

Historical Context & Trends

This is the first audit recorded at /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/safe-output-health/ — no prior baseline existed. Today's run establishes the baseline: 100% success rate among executed safe_outputs jobs, ~6% natural skip rate, 0% failure rate. Cache-memory has been seeded (index.json, 2026-08-11.json, error-patterns.json, recurring-failures.json, solutions.json) so subsequent daily audits can track deltas against this baseline.

Metrics & KPIs

• Safe-output job failure rate: 0% (0/210)
• Safe-output job success rate (executed only): 100% (197/197)
• Safe-output job skip rate: 6.2% (13/210)
• Distinct workflows observed: 80
• Total runs in window: 210
• (Context only, out of scope) Agent-job failure rate: 49.0% (103/210)

Next Steps

• Continue daily safe-output audits; compare against this baseline for drift
• Implement WI-1 (stderr capture) so any future failure is actionable on first sight
• Implement WI-2 (align monitor template with actual job architecture)
• Hand off the 49.0% agent-job failure rate to the appropriate agent-job reliability monitor (explicitly out of scope here)

References:

• §31458023382 — most recent run in window (Step Name Alignment)
• §31419900569 — example clean safe_outputs skip (Daily Cache Strategy Analyzer)
• §31407178517 — example agent-job failure with safe_outputs still completing cleanly (Design Decision Gate)

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