Add GitHub CLI fallback guidance to Daily Team Evolution Insights workflow prompt - #51192
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[WIP] Add GitHub MCP server extension to Daily Team Evolution Insights
Add GitHub CLI fallback guidance to Daily Team Evolution Insights workflow prompt
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Pull request overview
Adds GitHub CLI fallback guidance when Goose cannot load GitHub MCP tools.
Changes:
- Documents
githubwrapper discovery and invocation. - Regenerates workflow metadata.
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.github/workflows/daily-team-evolution-insights.md |
Adds fallback instructions. |
.github/workflows/daily-team-evolution-insights.lock.yml |
Updates the generated body hash. |
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| > **Fallback**: If the GitHub MCP tools/extension fail to load (e.g. a "Failed to start extension 'github'" warning), a `github` CLI wrapper command is also available on PATH as an alternative way to reach the same GitHub MCP tools. Run `github --help` to list the available commands (e.g. `list_commits`, `list_pull_requests`, `list_issues`) and use `github <command> --param value` to fetch the same data before giving up and reporting a missing tool. |
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The Daily Team Evolution Insights workflow (Goose engine) reports
github-mcp-serveras a missing tool and aborts instead of gathering commits, PRs, issues, and discussions.Root cause
ToolsAllowlist: falsecapability, so the compiler discards the entiretools:frontmatter section —tools.github.mode/toolsets/cli-proxysettings have no effect for goose workflows.localhost:8080) fails inside the network-isolated sandbox (Failed to start extension 'github'). This is systemic across all goose workflows, not specific to this one — confirmed by the identical warning in a successful comparison run (smoke-goose).githubCLI wrapper is always mounted on PATH by the safe-outputs CLI-mount step. In the successful run, the agent discovered it through exploration; in the failing run, it didn't, and gave up.Fix
githubCLI wrapper on PATH if the MCP extension/tools fail to load, before reporting a missing tool:Scope
.md+ regenerated.lock.yml); no compiler/engine code touched.