[aw] Copilot CLI Deep Research Agent failed

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Workflow Failure

Workflow: Copilot CLI Deep Research Agent
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/24586698669

🔒 MCP Servers Blocked by Policy: The Copilot CLI blocked MCP server connections due to an organization or enterprise policy. The agent ran without access to MCP tools (GitHub API, safe outputs, etc.).

This is a policy configuration issue, not a transient error — retrying will not help.

How to fix this

An organization or enterprise administrator must enable the "MCP servers in Copilot" policy:

1. Go to your enterprise or organization settings
2. Navigate to Policies → Copilot
3. Enable "MCP servers in Copilot"

For detailed instructions, see the official documentation.

Note: On some GitHub Enterprise instances, the Policies tab may only be visible at the enterprise level, not the organization level.

⚠️ Engine Failure: The copilot engine terminated unexpectedly.

Last agent output:

● Check the prompt file (shell)
  │ cat /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt | head -20
  └ 21 lines...
● Check safeoutputs dir in sandbox (shell)
  │ ls -la /tmp/gh-aw/safeoutputs/ && cat /tmp/gh-aw/safeoutputs/outputs.jsonl
  │ 2>/dev/null || echo "File doesn't exist yet"
  └ 5 lines...
● Get exact safeoutputs path (shell)
  │ echo "$GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS"
  └ 2 lines...

Action Required

Assign this issue to Copilot using the agentic-workflows sub-agent to automatically debug and fix the workflow failure.

Debug with any coding agent

Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.):

Debug the agentic workflow failure using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/debug.md

The failed workflow run is at https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/24586698669

Manually invoke the agent

Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the agentic-workflows prompt.

• Start your agent
• Load the agentic-workflows prompt from .github/agents/agentic-workflows.agent.md or https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/.github/agents/agentic-workflows.agent.md
• Type debug the agentic workflow copilot-cli-deep-research failure in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/24586698669

Tip

Stop reporting this workflow as a failure

To stop a workflow from creating failure issues, set report-failure-as-issue: false in its frontmatter:

safe-outputs:
  report-failure-as-issue: false

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• expires on Apr 18, 2026, 9:28 AM UTC