Add Epic issue creation to campaign orchestrators

[Copilot]

Campaign orchestrators were unable to create Epic issues required by the project hierarchy model. The orchestrator instructions specified Epic requirements but provided no mechanism to create them.

Changes

Orchestrator configuration (pkg/campaign/orchestrator.go)

• Added CreateIssues safe output (max: 1) to campaign orchestrator workflows

Orchestrator instructions (pkg/campaign/prompts/orchestrator_instructions.md)

• Added Phase 0 for Epic initialization: search by label + campaign_id, create if missing, add to project board
• Includes campaign name and objective in Epic body template

Markdown serialization (pkg/cli/compile_orchestrator.go)

• Fixed renderGeneratedCampaignOrchestratorMarkdown to serialize CreateIssues to frontmatter
• Previously only serialized AddComments and UpdateProjects

Template data (pkg/campaign/template.go)

• Added CampaignName field to support human-readable Epic titles

Result

Generated orchestrators now include:

safe-outputs:
    create-issue:
        max: 1

And compiled workflows contain create_issue in both config.json and tools.json, enabling orchestrators to create Epic issues that serve as parent issues for campaign work items.

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• https://api.github.com/user
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/gh gh api user --jq .login -json GO111MODULE 0.1-go1.25.0.linGOMODCACHE GOINSECURE GOMOD GOMODCACHE go env -json GO111MODULE 0.1-go1.25.0.linGOMODCACHE GOINSECURE GOMOD GOMODCACHE go (http block)
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/gh gh api user --jq .login 0541874c38771ce7/tmp/gh-aw-test-runs/20260104-152504-74950/test-orchestrator-1255404406/run-1007grep 0.1-go1.25.0.linrev-parse /usr/bin/infocmp -json GO111MODULE pkg/mod/golang.odownload infocmp -1 (http block)
  • Triggering command: /usr/bin/gh gh api user --jq .login /repos/actions/github-script/git/ref/tags/v8 --jq (http block)

If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:

• Configure Actions setup steps to set up my environment, which run before the firewall is enabled
• Add the appropriate URLs or hosts to the custom allowlist in this repository's Copilot coding agent settings (admins only)

Original prompt

Fix campaign projects not having epic issues, these should be created:
https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/20694670193

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[mnkiefer]

@copilot: Also make sure this epic issue is linked to the project.