🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - November 30, 2025

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Executive Summary

This audit analyzed 63 workflow runs from the last 24 hours (November 29-30, 2025). The audit reveals concerning trends: success rate has declined to 55.6% (down from 82.5% five days ago), with 21 failures and 3 cancellations. No token usage or cost data is being recorded for recent runs, indicating a potential instrumentation issue.

Key Findings:

• 📉 Success rate declining: From 82.5% (Nov 26) to 55.6% (today)
• ⚠️ 755 errors and 245 warnings detected across 28 unique workflows
• 🔴 100% failure rate for Smoke Copilot workflow (7/7 runs failed)
• 🔴 72.7% failure rate for Firewall Escape Test (8/11 runs failed)
• 📊 No token/cost data being recorded for last 3 days (potential instrumentation issue)
• ✅ No missing tools or MCP server failures detected

📈 Workflow Health Trends

Success/Failure Patterns

The chart shows a clear downward trend in success rates over the past 9 days. The success rate has dropped from 82.5% (Nov 26) to 55.6% (today), falling well below the 80% target threshold. This decline correlates with increased workflow activity but suggests systemic issues affecting multiple workflows.

Token Usage & Costs

A significant concern: no token usage or cost data has been recorded for the last 3 days (Nov 28-30). This represents a complete loss of resource tracking despite active workflow runs. Previous days showed costs of $20-22 daily, making this data gap critical for budget monitoring.

Detailed Audit Findings

Audit Statistics

• Period: Last 24 hours (Nov 29-30, 2025)
• Runs Analyzed: 63
• Success Rate: 55.6% (35 success, 21 failure, 3 cancelled, 4 other)
• Total Errors: 755
• Total Warnings: 245
• Missing Tools: 0 (none detected)
• MCP Server Failures: 0 (none detected)

Workflow Distribution by Engine

Engine	Runs	Percentage
Copilot	31	49.2%
Claude	19	30.2%
Codex	13	20.6%

Workflow Distribution by Trigger

Event	Runs	Percentage
pull_request	25	39.7%
schedule	19	30.2%
push	13	20.6%
workflow_dispatch	4	6.3%
workflow_run	1	1.6%
discussion_comment	1	1.6%

Critical Issues

1. Smoke Copilot Workflow - 100% Failure Rate

Impact: Critical test workflow failing completely

• Runs: 7 (all on pull_request trigger)
• Failures: 7 (100% failure rate)
• Status: All runs resulted in failure
• Recommendation: Immediate investigation required. This is a smoke test workflow, and its complete failure suggests fundamental issues with the Copilot engine integration or test configuration.

2. Firewall Escape Test - 72.7% Failure Rate

Impact: Security testing workflow highly unreliable

• Runs: 11 (triggered by push and pull_request)
• Failures: 8 (72.7% failure rate)
• Cancellations: 3 runs were cancelled
• Recommendation: Review firewall configuration and test expectations. The high cancellation rate suggests timeout or resource issues.

3. Missing Token/Cost Instrumentation

Impact: Loss of resource tracking and budget visibility

• Observation: No token usage or cost data recorded for Nov 28-30
• Previous Baseline: $20-22/day (Nov 25-26)
• Potential Causes:
  • Instrumentation code disabled or broken
  • API changes affecting metric collection
  • Storage/persistence issues
• Recommendation: Urgent investigation needed to restore resource tracking. This is critical for budget management and capacity planning.

Error Analysis

Top Error Patterns

1. Command Not Found Errors (755 occurrences)

Pattern: bash: wget: command not found

Affected Workflows (13 workflows):

• Primarily smoke test workflows and security testing workflows
• Suggests missing system dependencies in execution environment

Example Error:

bash: wget: command not found

Root Cause: The wget command is not available in the workflow execution environment, but workflows are attempting to use it.

Recommendation:

• Update workflows to use curl instead of wget (curl is available)
• Or add wget installation step: sudo apt-get install -y wget
• Or use language-native HTTP libraries instead of shell commands

Top Warning Patterns

1. Permission Denied Warnings (245 occurrences)

Pattern: Permission denied and could not request permission from user

Affected Workflows (15 workflows):

• Affects workflows across all engines (Copilot, Claude, Codex)
• Suggests overly restrictive permissions or missing permission grants

Example Warning:

Permission denied and could not request permission from user

Root Cause: Workflows attempting operations that require explicit user permission, but running in automated context where user approval cannot be obtained.

Recommendation:

• Review tool allowlists in workflow configurations
• Grant necessary permissions in workflow frontmatter
• Consider if operations truly need to be restricted

Problematic Workflows

Workflows with High Failure Rates

Workflow	Runs	Failures	Failure Rate	Errors	Warnings
Smoke Copilot	7	7	100.0%	0	0
Firewall Escape Test	11	8	72.7%	0	0
Tidy	2	1	50.0%	0	0
Changeset Generator	5	2	40.0%	0	0

Workflow-Specific Recommendations

Smoke Copilot:

• Complete failure suggests test configuration or environment issue
• Review test expectations and copilot agent setup
• Check for recent changes to copilot integration
• Priority: CRITICAL

Firewall Escape Test:

• High cancellation rate (3/11) suggests timeout issues
• Review firewall rules and test scenarios
• Consider reducing test scope or increasing timeout
• Priority: HIGH

Tidy:

• Limited sample size (2 runs) but 50% failure needs monitoring
• Review code formatting/linting tool configurations
• Priority: MEDIUM

Changeset Generator:

• 40% failure rate with 5 runs
• Review changeset generation logic and dependencies
• Priority: MEDIUM

Workflow Activity Overview

Most Active Workflows (Last 24 Hours)

1. Firewall Escape Test - 11 runs
2. Smoke Codex - 7 runs
3. Smoke Copilot No Firewall - 7 runs
4. Smoke Copilot - 7 runs
5. Smoke Claude - 7 runs
6. Changeset Generator - 5 runs
7. Security Fix PR - 3 runs

Engine Performance Comparison

Engine	Total Runs	Success Rate	Notes
Copilot	31	Lower	Smoke Copilot failures dragging down average
Claude	19	Mixed	Varies by workflow
Codex	13	Higher	Better success rate overall

Firewall Analysis

No firewall log data available for this audit period. Firewall metrics could not be collected from the analyzed workflow runs.

Recommendation: Ensure firewall logging is enabled for workflows using network firewall features to track allowed/denied domains.

Missing Tools

✅ No missing tools detected in this audit period. All tool requests were successfully fulfilled.

MCP Server Failures

✅ No MCP server failures detected in this audit period. All MCP servers operated successfully.

Recommendations

Immediate Actions (Next 24 Hours)

1. 🔴 CRITICAL: Investigate Smoke Copilot failures

   • 100% failure rate indicates broken test or environment
   • Review recent changes to copilot integration
   • Check test configuration and expectations

2. 🔴 CRITICAL: Restore token/cost instrumentation

   • No metrics for 3 days = blind to resource usage
   • Could be accumulating hidden costs
   • Review instrumentation code and API integration

3. 🟡 HIGH: Fix wget dependency issues

   • 755 error occurrences across 13 workflows
   • Update workflows to use curl or install wget
   • Create reusable action for common dependencies

4. 🟡 HIGH: Review Firewall Escape Test reliability

   • 72.7% failure rate with frequent cancellations
   • May need timeout increases or test scope reduction
   • Consider splitting into smaller, more focused tests

Short-term Improvements (Next Week)

5. 🟢 MEDIUM: Address permission warnings

   • 245 warnings indicate overly restrictive permissions
   • Review and update tool allowlists
   • Document permission requirements for workflows

6. 🟢 MEDIUM: Monitor Tidy and Changeset Generator

   • Both showing elevated failure rates
   • Collect more data to identify patterns
   • Review code quality tool configurations

Long-term Strategy

7. 📊 Implement better instrumentation

   • Ensure consistent token/cost tracking
   • Add alerting for metric collection failures
   • Create dashboard for real-time monitoring

8. 🔍 Establish failure thresholds

   • Define acceptable failure rates by workflow type
   • Create automated alerts for workflows exceeding thresholds
   • Implement automatic workflow disabling for chronic failures

9. 📈 Trend monitoring

   • Continue daily audits to track success rate trends
   • Investigate root causes of declining success rates
   • Establish success rate improvement targets

Historical Context

9-Day Trend Analysis

Success Rate Trajectory:

• Nov 22: 72.7%
• Nov 24: 97.1% (peak)
• Nov 25: 79.5%
• Nov 26: 82.5%
• Nov 27-30: Declining trend to 55.6% ⚠️

Cost Trajectory:

• Nov 24-26: $6-22/day (normal operation)
• Nov 28-30: $0 (no data) 🔴

The data shows we achieved excellent reliability (97.1%) on Nov 24, but have steadily declined since then. The loss of cost tracking data starting Nov 28 coincides with the steeper decline in success rates, suggesting a common root cause affecting multiple systems.

Next Steps

• Investigate and fix Smoke Copilot test failures - Assign to workflow maintainers
• Restore token/cost instrumentation - Assign to infrastructure team
• Update workflows using wget to use curl - Create bulk update PR
• Review Firewall Escape Test timeout settings - Adjust or split tests
• Create alert system for missing metrics - Prevent future blind spots
• Schedule follow-up audit - Tomorrow to verify improvements

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References:

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