Reduce CLI Consistency Checker token usage via pre-agent help capture and prompt/frontmatter trimming

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This workflow was spending most tokens on repetitive CLI help discovery despite being a read-only inspection task. This change shifts deterministic data collection to pre-agent execution and trims unnecessary workflow context to reduce per-run token cost.

• Pre-agent deterministic help capture

  • Added pre-agent-steps to build gh-aw, collect --help output for top-level commands and discovered subcommands, and aggregate into /tmp/gh-aw/agent/all-help.txt.
  • Prompt now treats that file as the authoritative CLI dataset instead of re-running command discovery in-agent.

• Frontmatter context reduction

  • Removed unused tools: cli-proxy, edit, web-fetch.
  • Tightened network policy from broad allowlist to allowed: [defaults].

• Prompt streamlining

  • Removed unused delegated-agent sections.
  • Collapsed verbose execution/template instructions into concise analysis + reporting requirements while preserving severity breakdown and consolidated issue format expectations.

• Script hardening

  • Improved command extraction robustness for help parsing.
  • Added warning output for failed per-command help collection.
  • Added safe glob handling and explicit empty-output guard before concatenation.

pre-agent-steps:
  - name: Build CLI and pre-collect help output
    run: |
      cd /home/runner/work/gh-aw/gh-aw
      make build
      # collect help output -> /tmp/gh-aw/agent/all-help.txt

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Pull request overview

This PR reduces token usage for the CLI Consistency Checker workflow by moving deterministic CLI help discovery into pre-agent-steps, trimming workflow context/frontmatter, and simplifying the in-agent prompt to analyze a pre-collected help corpus instead of re-running CLI discovery.

Changes:

• Add pre-agent-steps to build gh-aw and aggregate --help output into /tmp/gh-aw/agent/all-help.txt.
• Tighten frontmatter context (remove unused tools, reduce network allowlist to allowed: [defaults]).
• Streamline the markdown prompt to reference the pre-collected help file and simplify reporting instructions.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
.github/workflows/cli-consistency-checker.md	Adds pre-agent help capture + updates prompt/frontmatter to rely on the pre-collected dataset.
.github/workflows/cli-consistency-checker.lock.yml	Regenerates the compiled workflow to include the new pre-agent step and updated network/tool configuration.

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[pelikhan]

@copilot merge main and recompile

[Copilot]

@copilot merge main and recompile

Merged main and recompiled. Addressed in commit c8e977f.