v0.79.6

🌟 Release Highlights

This release focuses on observability improvements, Windows CLI reliability, and security hardening for the AWF firewall runtime — keeping your agentic workflows stable and easier to debug.

✨ What's New

• AI Credit Observability — gh-aw.aic is now emitted as a doubleValue on OTLP conclusion spans, fixing Sentry EAP type inference and ensuring AI credit cap attributes appear consistently even when INPUT_JOB_NAME is absent. Richer data means faster cost diagnosis. (#38550, #38510, #38580)

• Go MCP Server Process Guardrail — A 4-process limit is now enforced on child gh invocations spawned by the Go MCP server, preventing runaway process trees and improving resource safety in constrained runners. (#38544)

• Prefetch Strategy A/B Experiment — The weekly-blog-post-writer workflow gains a prefetch_strategy experiment flag, enabling controlled rollout of prefetch optimizations across agentic runs. (#38622)

• Maintenance Trigger Logging — The first trigger reason for agentics-maintenance generation is now logged, giving operators clear visibility into what kicked off a maintenance cycle. (#38616)

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Windows CLI Deadlock Fixed — A process wrapper deadlock in the Windows CLI integration has been resolved, unblocking workflows that stalled when spawning child processes on Windows. (#38592)

• Smarter Failure Titles — The conclusion job now uses failure-specific issue titles and detects the unknown_model_ai_credits failure mode, making auto-filed failure issues more actionable. (#38615, #38610)

• Windows Test Coverage Expanded — The Windows CLI integration test suite is restructured into a scenario matrix covering shell, environment, path, and chaos scenarios for broader coverage. (#38526)

🔒 Security & Reliability

• AWF 0.27.2 Update — Upgraded to the latest AWF firewall runtime, incorporating upstream security and stability fixes. (#38660)

• Digest Pinning Restored — Container image digest pinning for AWF 0.27.0 firewall sidecar images has been restored, and the release pipeline now gates on resolved SHA pins before pushing tags — ensuring supply chain integrity. (#38595, #38608)

📚 Documentation

• LLM/Agent Discovery — Replaced starlight-llms-txt with a custom llms.txt/agents.txt that points directly to .github/aw/*.md workflow sources, making this repo more discoverable by LLM-based tooling. (#38630)

• copilot-requests: write Permission Guidance — Instruction docs now recommend the copilot-requests: write permission for Copilot-targeted workflows. (#38410)

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What's Changed

• Replace remaining sort.Slice call sites with type-safe slices.SortFunc by @Copilot in #38498
• [jsweep] Clean write_large_content_to_file.cjs by @github-actions[bot] in #38504
• Ensure gh-aw.aic is emitted on conclusion spans when INPUT_JOB_NAME is missing by @Copilot in #38510
• Restructure Windows CLI integration into scenario matrix with missing shell/env/path/chaos coverage by @Copilot in #38526
• Add AI credit cap observability attributes to OTLP conclusion spans by @Copilot in #38550
• [instructions] Sync instruction files with release v0.79.4 by @github-actions[bot] in #38567
• [docs] Update documentation for features from 2026-06-11 by @github-actions[bot] in #38593
• [docs] Update glossary - daily scan by @github-actions[bot] in #38585
• Recommend copilot-requests: write for Copilot-targeted workflows in instruction docs by @Copilot in #38410
• Fix Windows CLI integration deadlock in process wrapper by @Copilot in #38592
• release: gate on resolved container SHA pins before push_tag by @Copilot in #38608
• Restore digest pinning for AWF 0.27.0 firewall sidecar images by @Copilot in #38595
• fix: always emit gh-aw.aic as doubleValue to fix Sentry EAP type inference by @Copilot in #38580
• Add a 4-process guardrail for Go MCP server child gh invocations by @Copilot in #38544
• Log first trigger reason for agentics-maintenance generation by @Copilot in #38616
• Detect unknown_model_ai_credits failure in conclusion job by @Copilot in #38610
• Use failure-specific issue titles in conclusion job by @Copilot in #38615
• Add prefetch_strategy A/B experiment to weekly-blog-post-writer by @Copilot in #38622
• docs: replace starlight-llms-txt with custom llms.txt/agents.txt pointing to .github/aw/*.md by @Copilot in #38630
• updated to awf 0.27.2 by @pelikhan in #38660

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