[WIP] Investigate hourly CI cleaner not creating pull requests

[Copilot]

Investigation Complete: Hourly CI Cleaner Not Creating PRs ✅

Root Cause Analysis

Issue: The hourly CI cleaner workflow was unable to create pull requests after fixing CI failures.

Cause: The workflow instructions referenced an incorrect tool name:

• Incorrect: safeoutputs-create_pull_request ❌
• Correct: create_pull_request ✅

Technical Details

Safe-outputs tools follow this naming convention:

1. Config key from frontmatter: safe-outputs.create-pull-request
2. Normalization: Hyphens → underscores: create_pull_request
3. No prefix added: Tool name is just the normalized key

The agent was instructed to call a non-existent tool, causing silent failure when attempting to create PRs.

Fix Implemented ✅

• Updated .github/workflows/hourly-ci-cleaner.md line 103
• Changed tool reference from safeoutputs-create_pull_request to create_pull_request
• Recompiled all workflows (109/109 successful)
• Validated with strict mode (0 errors, 0 warnings)
• Verified no other workflows have similar issues
• Code review passed with no comments
• Stored memory for future reference

Impact

The hourly CI cleaner will now properly create pull requests when fixing CI failures on the main branch. The agent can successfully call the create_pull_request tool to submit fixes for review.

Testing Recommendation

The next time CI fails on main branch, the hourly workflow should successfully create a PR with the fixes. Monitor the workflow run to confirm the fix works end-to-end.

Original prompt

Investigate why the hourly ci cleaner is not creating pull requests

Custom agent used: debug-agentic-workflow
Debug and refine agentic workflows using gh-aw CLI tools - analyze logs, audit runs, and improve workflow performance

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