feat(smoke-claude): trim unused tools to reduce token spend ~8%#1631
feat(smoke-claude): trim unused tools to reduce token spend ~8%#1631
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- Remove cache-memory tool (~2,500 tokens/run savings) - Remove edit tool (~600 tokens/run savings) - Remove mcp-pagination.md import; add inline perPage hint (~810 tokens/run) - Reduce max-turns 15→8 (cost-runaway protection) - Fix sandbox.mcp.container strict-mode violation - Fix playwright.allowed_domains invalid property - Recompile and post-process lock file Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/sessions/98b95d3e-73b7-4bef-b303-58d53414300d Co-authored-by: lpcox <15877973+lpcox@users.noreply.github.com>
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Use ${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/safeoutputs/outputs.jsonl instead of
/opt/gh-aw/safeoutputs/outputs.jsonl. gh-aw v0.65+ uses
RUNNER_TEMP-based paths, so the old fallback always failed in
the post-step validation.
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@copilot fix the PR title and summary |
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Smoke Test Results — Run 23925696368 ✅ GitHub MCP — PRs: "fix: token analyzers should always run and close older issues", "perf: exclude browser tools and reduce turns in smoke-copilot" Overall: PASS
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🧪 Smoke Test Results — PASS
PR: feat(smoke-claude): reduce token spend ~8% by trimming unused tools and imports
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Smoke Test: GitHub Actions Services Connectivity ✅All checks passed:
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Overall: 8/8 ecosystems passed — ✅ PASS
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Updated the PR description — removed the broken 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:
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Pull request overview
This PR optimizes the smoke-claude agentic workflow to reduce prompt/tooling overhead (and therefore token spend) for a short smoke test run, primarily by trimming unused workflow features and lowering the turn cap.
Changes:
- Reduces Claude max turns in the smoke workflow (
15→8) and removes unused workflow/tool imports/config insmoke-claude.md. - Updates safe-outputs validation default path to use
${RUNNER_TEMP}. - Regenerates the compiled lock workflow with a newer
gh-awcompiler version, producing a broad set of downstream workflow updates.
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Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.
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| .github/workflows/smoke-claude.md | Removes unused workflow features/tools and lowers max-turns for cost control; updates safe-outputs default path; adds a small pagination hint. |
| .github/workflows/smoke-claude.lock.yml | Recompiled workflow output reflecting the above plus compiler/runtime updates (job logic, artifacts, tool configs, etc.). |
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| sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/awf | ||
| - name: Install Claude Code CLI | ||
| run: npm install -g --silent @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.47 | ||
| run: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@latest |
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The workflow now installs @anthropic-ai/claude-code@latest, which makes the smoke test non-reproducible and can introduce breaking CLI/tooling changes without a PR (and can change token usage/cost). Pin this to a specific version (and bump deliberately when needed) to keep the smoke signal stable.
| run: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@latest | |
| run: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@1.0.56 |
| sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/awf | ||
| - name: Install Claude Code CLI | ||
| run: npm install -g --silent @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.47 | ||
| run: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@latest |
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claude-code is also installed as @latest in the threat-detection job. For consistent behavior across runs (and predictable detection output), this should be pinned to a known-good version rather than floating.
| run: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@latest | |
| run: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@1.0.61 |
| schedule: | ||
| - cron: "15 */12 * * *" | ||
| workflow_dispatch: null | ||
| - cron: "53 */12 * * *" | ||
| workflow_dispatch: |
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The compiled workflow changes the schedule from the previous 15 */12 * * * to 53 */12 * * *. This alters when the smoke test runs and isn’t mentioned in the PR description; if the minute change isn’t intentional, keep the prior cron minute (or call out the change explicitly).
| jobs: | ||
| activation: | ||
| if: (github.event_name != 'pull_request' || (github.event.pull_request.head.repo.id == github.repository_id && github.event.sender.type != 'Bot')) | ||
| if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.id == github.repository_id |
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The activation job condition no longer filters out bot senders (previously it also checked github.event.sender.type != 'Bot'). This can increase the number of smoke runs (and costs) by running on bot-authored PR events; if that behavior change isn’t intended, reintroduce the bot guard or document why it’s safe/desired.
| if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' || github.event.pull_request.head.repo.id == github.repository_id | |
| if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' || (github.event.pull_request.head.repo.id == github.repository_id && github.event.sender.type != 'Bot') |
| touch /tmp/gh-aw/agent-step-summary.md | ||
| # shellcheck disable=SC1003 | ||
| sudo -E awf --container-workdir "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}" --mount "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:ro" --mount "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:/host${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw:ro" --tty --env-all --exclude-env ANTHROPIC_API_KEY --exclude-env GITHUB_MCP_SERVER_TOKEN --exclude-env MCP_GATEWAY_API_KEY --allow-domains '*.githubusercontent.com,anthropic.com,api.anthropic.com,api.github.com,api.snapcraft.io,archive.ubuntu.com,azure.archive.ubuntu.com,cdn.playwright.dev,codeload.github.com,crl.geotrust.com,crl.globalsign.com,crl.identrust.com,crl.sectigo.com,crl.thawte.com,crl.usertrust.com,crl.verisign.com,crl3.digicert.com,crl4.digicert.com,crls.ssl.com,docs.github.com,files.pythonhosted.org,ghcr.io,github-cloud.githubusercontent.com,github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com,github.blog,github.com,github.githubassets.com,host.docker.internal,json-schema.org,json.schemastore.org,keyserver.ubuntu.com,lfs.github.com,objects.githubusercontent.com,ocsp.digicert.com,ocsp.geotrust.com,ocsp.globalsign.com,ocsp.identrust.com,ocsp.sectigo.com,ocsp.ssl.com,ocsp.thawte.com,ocsp.usertrust.com,ocsp.verisign.com,packagecloud.io,packages.cloud.google.com,packages.microsoft.com,playwright.download.prss.microsoft.com,ppa.launchpad.net,pypi.org,raw.githubusercontent.com,registry.npmjs.org,s.symcb.com,s.symcd.com,security.ubuntu.com,sentry.io,statsig.anthropic.com,ts-crl.ws.symantec.com,ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com,www.googleapis.com' --log-level info --proxy-logs-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs --audit-dir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/audit --enable-host-access --build-local --enable-api-proxy \ | ||
| -- /bin/bash -c 'export PATH="$(find /opt/hostedtoolcache -maxdepth 4 -type d -name bin 2>/dev/null | tr '\''\n'\'' '\'':'\'')$PATH"; [ -n "$GOROOT" ] && export PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH" || true && claude --print --disable-slash-commands --no-chrome --max-turns 8 --mcp-config /tmp/gh-aw/mcp-config/mcp-servers.json --allowed-tools Bash,BashOutput,Edit,ExitPlanMode,Glob,Grep,KillBash,LS,MultiEdit,NotebookEdit,NotebookRead,Read,Task,TodoWrite,Write,mcp__github__download_workflow_run_artifact,mcp__github__get_code_scanning_alert,mcp__github__get_commit,mcp__github__get_dependabot_alert,mcp__github__get_discussion,mcp__github__get_discussion_comments,mcp__github__get_file_contents,mcp__github__get_job_logs,mcp__github__get_label,mcp__github__get_latest_release,mcp__github__get_me,mcp__github__get_notification_details,mcp__github__get_pull_request,mcp__github__get_pull_request_comments,mcp__github__get_pull_request_diff,mcp__github__get_pull_request_files,mcp__github__get_pull_request_review_comments,mcp__github__get_pull_request_reviews,mcp__github__get_pull_request_status,mcp__github__get_release_by_tag,mcp__github__get_secret_scanning_alert,mcp__github__get_tag,mcp__github__get_workflow_run,mcp__github__get_workflow_run_logs,mcp__github__get_workflow_run_usage,mcp__github__issue_read,mcp__github__list_branches,mcp__github__list_code_scanning_alerts,mcp__github__list_commits,mcp__github__list_dependabot_alerts,mcp__github__list_discussion_categories,mcp__github__list_discussions,mcp__github__list_issue_types,mcp__github__list_issues,mcp__github__list_label,mcp__github__list_notifications,mcp__github__list_pull_requests,mcp__github__list_releases,mcp__github__list_secret_scanning_alerts,mcp__github__list_starred_repositories,mcp__github__list_tags,mcp__github__list_workflow_jobs,mcp__github__list_workflow_run_artifacts,mcp__github__list_workflow_runs,mcp__github__list_workflows,mcp__github__pull_request_read,mcp__github__search_code,mcp__github__search_issues,mcp__github__search_orgs,mcp__github__search_pull_requests,mcp__github__search_repositories,mcp__github__search_users,mcp__playwright__browser_click,mcp__playwright__browser_close,mcp__playwright__browser_console_messages,mcp__playwright__browser_drag,mcp__playwright__browser_evaluate,mcp__playwright__browser_file_upload,mcp__playwright__browser_fill_form,mcp__playwright__browser_handle_dialog,mcp__playwright__browser_hover,mcp__playwright__browser_install,mcp__playwright__browser_navigate,mcp__playwright__browser_navigate_back,mcp__playwright__browser_network_requests,mcp__playwright__browser_press_key,mcp__playwright__browser_resize,mcp__playwright__browser_select_option,mcp__playwright__browser_snapshot,mcp__playwright__browser_tabs,mcp__playwright__browser_take_screenshot,mcp__playwright__browser_type,mcp__playwright__browser_wait_for --debug-file /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log --verbose --permission-mode bypassPermissions --output-format stream-json "$(cat /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt)"${GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CLAUDE:+ --model "$GH_AW_MODEL_AGENT_CLAUDE"}' 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/gh-aw/agent-stdio.log |
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PR description says the edit tool was removed to reduce token spend, but the Claude CLI invocation still includes Edit and MultiEdit in --allowed-tools. If the goal is to trim tool surface, this likely needs to be removed from the allowed tool list as well (or the PR description should be updated if Edit can’t actually be disabled for Claude).
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Smoke test results (run 23946438764)
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smoke-claudewas loadingcache-memory,edit, andmcp-pagination.md— none of which are needed for a 6-turn smoke test — inflating cache writes by ~3,910 tokens/run and costing ~$12/month unnecessarily.max-turns: 15also left a wide window for cost runaway.Changes to
smoke-claude.mdcache-memory: true— cross-session memory persistence has no value in a short-lived smoke run (~2,500 tokens saved)edit:tool — file creation usesbash echo; this tool is never called (~600 tokens saved)imports: shared/mcp-pagination.md; replace with single inline hint> Use perPage: 2 when listing PRs.— full pagination guidance is overkill for a 2-PR fetch (~810 tokens saved)max-turns: 15→max-turns: 8— actual runs use ~6 turns; cap at 8 to limit runaway exposureIncidental schema fixes (caught at compile time)
sandbox.mcp.container— disallowed in strict modeplaywright.allowed_domains— not a valid property undertools.playwrightin current gh-aw schema (bareplaywright:is correct)Expected impact