gh-aw Intelligence Report — 2026-04-19

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Period: 2026-04-18 → 2026-04-19 | Sources: GitHub API (5 repos) | Web search: blocked by network firewall

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🔴 Critical: MCP Gateway Port 8080 — Silent MCP Failures

A prior gh-aw change (PR #27058) moved the MCP gateway from port 80 → 8080 (non-privileged). AWF's --enable-host-access only whitelists ports 80 and 443 by default — blocking port 8080.

Impact: Any gh-aw version between the port change and today's fix silently fails:

• MCP tools unavailable to agent
• Safe-output calls time out silently

Fix (merged 2026-04-19): --allow-host-ports 80,443,8080 added to the compiled AWF command, gated by minimum AWF version. Affects AWF v0.25.25+.

gh aw upgrade  # Update to v0.25.25+

Source: github/gh-aw@a77850e

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📦 Version Bumps

Component	Previous	Current
AWF (Actions Workflow Framework)	v0.25.24	v0.25.25
MCP Gateway	v0.2.24	v0.2.25

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✨ New: copilot-opt Workflow

gh-aw added a copilot-opt internal workflow that analyzes 14-day session history and generates 3 evidence-backed Copilot optimization issues. Uses Haiku model + lean toolset + prompt compaction for efficiency.

Source: github/gh-aw@1378d27

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📦 GitHub MCP Server

Still at v1.0.0 (released 2026-04-16). No new release since yesterday.

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🔧 Reference File Updates (this pipeline)

File	Change
production-gotchas.md	Added MCP gateway port 8080 gotcha with fix instructions
gh-aw-architecture.md	Updated AWF → v0.25.25, Gateway → v0.2.25; noted port change
knowledge-base.md	Appended 2026-04-19 entry

Full report: outputs/gh-aw-reports/2026-04-19.md

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• expires on Apr 26, 2026, 8:04 AM UTC