[safe-output-health] 🏥 Safe Output Health Report - 2026-10-12

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Executive Summary

• Period: last 24h (logs downloaded 2026-10-12 04:46 UTC)
• Runs analyzed: 178 with complete job telemetry (247 run directories downloaded total; 69 excluded — early-exit/in-progress at snapshot time)
• Workflows active: ~60 distinct workflows
• Safe-output job (safe_outputs) executions: 178
• Safe-output job failures: 0
• Error clusters identified: 0
• Cadence: 🔴 STALE — 144.1h since the last successful audit publish (threshold: 48h). Previous success: §37413824658 (2026-10-06T04:27:50Z).

This is the first fully clean safe-output audit since 2026-09-11 — zero failures across every safe-output job type and every adjacent state-writing job. The dominant finding this cycle is not a code bug but a recurrence of this monitor's own publishing-reliability problem (see Historical Context).

Safe Output Job Statistics

Job	Executions	Failures	Success Rate
safe_outputs (create_discussion/issue, add_comment, create_pull_request, update_issue, add_labels, push_to_pull_request_branch, missing_tool/data, noop — consolidated)	178	0	100%
push_evals_state	~140	0	100%
push_experiments_state	~30	0	100%
update_cache_memory	~25	0	100%
push_repo_memory	~10	0	100%
push_ledger_changes	4	0	100%
upload_assets	5	0	100%
sync_actions / comment_release_prs	1 / 1	0	100%

missing_tools, missing_data, and mcp_failures are null in all 178 run_summary.json files — no MCP-level safe-output failures this cycle.

Error Clusters

None. No safe-output job of any type failed in the 24h window.

Root Cause Analysis

Not applicable this cycle — no failures to analyze.

Note on run-level failures (out of scope, reported for transparency): 15 of 178 runs (8.4%) had a top-level run conclusion of failure. Traced all 15: every one is either the agent job itself failing, or the conclusion job's by-design Handle agent failure step, which intentionally marks that job failed to surface an upstream agent failure in the Actions UI. Verified by inspecting full step lists for two representative runs — the conclusion job's own safe-output-adjacent steps (Record missing tool, Record incomplete, Report failed jobs) all succeeded in both; only the deliberate Handle agent failure step failed. Per this monitor's charter, agent/detection job failures are out of scope.

Affected workflows for the 15 out-of-scope run failures

Daily Go Test Parallelizer (3×), PR Code Quality Reviewer (2×), Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer, Documentation Noob Tester, Daily Safe Output Tool Optimizer, Daily Spec Coverage Review, Daily AWF Spec Compiler Surfacing Review, Agentic Workflow Audit Agent, Detection Analysis Report, Daily Project Performance Summary Generator, Metrics Collector.

Recommendations

Critical Issues (Immediate Action Required)

1. Safe Output Health Monitor's own publish cadence is recurring-broken
   • Priority: Critical
   • Root Cause: Unknown — needs direct Actions-history investigation outside this sandbox's rolling 24h log window.
   • Recommended Action: A maintainer should check the Actions run history for this workflow between 2026-10-06 and 2026-10-12 to determine whether it failed to trigger on schedule, or triggered and failed before reaching create_discussion.
   • Affected: This monitor itself.

Bug Fixes Required

None this cycle — zero safe-output job defects found.

Process Improvements

1. Keep watching push_ledger_changes

   • Current State: Ran clean in all 4 observed executions today.
   • Why it still matters: This job family had two distinct validation bugs in its first week of existence (2026-10-04: 2/3 runs failed; 2026-10-06: 1 ERR_VALIDATION failure). A 4-run clean streak is reassuring but not yet enough to call it resolved.

2. Re-check smoke-test workflows next time they trigger

   • Current State: Smoke Issues, Smoke Project, and the original-named Smoke Copilot workflows (historically the source of most tracked recurring signatures: jira/linear credential failures, update_project bad credentials, hardcoded aw_smoke_discussion temp-id, triggering-target hard-fails) do not appear to have run in this specific 24h window.
   • Why it matters: Their absence from today's failure list reflects lack of exercise, not confirmed fixes — none of those signatures should be marked resolved yet.

Historical Context

Trend across tracked audits (click to expand)

Date	Runs	Failures	Success %	Note
2026-09-11	108	0	100%	Previous clean day
2026-09-12	394	1	99.75%	Smoke Issues credential failure (4th occurrence)
2026-09-22	227	2	99.12%	New add_labels signature + approve_workflow_run recurrence
2026-09-23	212	6	97.17%	Highest failure count in tracked history at the time
2026-10-04	268	4	97.96%	push_ledger_changes introduced, 2/3 failed; 11-day audit gap noted
2026-10-06	156	2	98.66%	push_ledger_changes validation bug; triggering-target bug generalized
2026-10-07	185	4	97.8%	Cadence critical: 600h gap discovered, traced to 09-12
2026-10-12	178	0	100%	Clean cycle, but cadence stale again (144h gap since 10-06)

Cadence pattern: The 2026-10-07 audit flagged a 600-hour gap in this monitor's own successful publishes, traced back to 2026-09-12, despite the pipeline visibly running (cache files exist) on 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-06. The 10-06 run is now recorded as the last success — so that specific gap resolved — but a new ~144h gap has opened since, with zero cache or discussion artifacts for 2026-10-07 through 2026-10-11. The self-health problem is recurring, not fixed.

Known recurring signatures, none observed today: PR Sous Chef approve_workflow_run (PAT-permission gap / protected-files decline), Design Decision Gate push_to_pull_request_branch allowed-files decline, Smoke Issues jira/linear credentials, Smoke Project update_project credentials, Auto-Triage Issues add_labels, concurrent-safe-outputs race, push_ledger_changes validation/empty-transaction bugs, triggering-target hard-fail, hardcoded smoke temp-id.

Metrics and KPIs

• Overall safe-output success rate: 100% (0/178 job-level failures)
• Most reliable job type: all tied at 100% this cycle
• Historically most problematic: push_ledger_changes (2 failures in its first ~6 runs) — clean today, small sample

Next Steps

• Escalate the monitor's own cadence gap (2026-10-06 → 2026-10-12) as a critical self-health issue
• No safe-output code fixes required this cycle
• Re-check Smoke Issues / Smoke Project / PR Sous Chef approve_workflow_run the next time those workflows trigger within the monitoring window
• Continue tracking push_ledger_changes for a few more cycles before calling its validation bugs resolved

References:

• §37413824658 — last successful audit publish (2026-10-06)
• §38201442588 — representative clean push_ledger_changes + push_repo_memory run today
• §38183895070 — example of an out-of-scope agent-job failure correctly isolated from safe-output health

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