[P1] Daily Fact About gh-aw: activation fails — old lock file format uses non-existent gh-aw-actions@v0 tag

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Failure Summary

Workflow: Daily Fact About gh-aw (daily-fact.lock.yml)
Engine: Codex (gpt-5.1-codex-mini)
Failure since: ~2026-03-25 (9+ consecutive failures)
Latest run: §23944516226 — Apr 3, 2026

Root Cause

The daily-fact.lock.yml was compiled with an older version of gh-aw that generated remote action references instead of local ones. The activation job's first step is:

- name: Setup Scripts
  uses: github/gh-aw-actions/setup@v0
```

**The `v0` tag does not exist on the `github/gh-aw-actions` repo.** The latest tags are `v0.65.x` (e.g., `v0.65.7`). GitHub Actions cannot resolve this and the activation job immediately fails with:

```
Unable to resolve action `github/gh-aw-actions@v0`, unable to find version `v0`

Evidence

• Error in activation job (run §23944516226):

  ##[error]Unable to resolve action `github/gh-aw-actions@v0`, unable to find version `v0`
  

• Confirmed v0 tag is absent: github/gh-aw-actions only has tags like v0.65.7, v0.65.6, etc. — no bare v0 tag.
• Only daily-fact.lock.yml has this issue (the activation job does NOT have a Checkout actions folder step first — it directly uses the remote action reference).
• The daily-fact.lock.yml header: # inlined-imports: true confirms it was compiled with an older compiler version.
• Other workflows use uses: ./actions/setup (local) after a checkout — these work fine.

Impact

• Daily poetic verses about gh-aw are not being posted
• Workflow has been failing every weekday since ~March 25, 2026 (9 consecutive failures)

Fix

Recompile daily-fact.md using the current gh-aw compiler:

./gh-aw compile .github/workflows/daily-fact.md

The recompiled lock file should:

1. Have a Checkout actions folder step using actions/checkout
2. Use uses: ./actions/setup (local action) instead of github/gh-aw-actions/setup@v0

Then commit the updated daily-fact.lock.yml.

History

Run	Date	Conclusion
#133	2026-04-03	❌ failure
#132	2026-04-02	❌ failure
#131	2026-04-01	❌ failure
#130	2026-03-31	❌ failure
#128	2026-03-27	❌ failure
#125	2026-03-24	✅ success
#124	2026-03-23	✅ success

References:

• §23944516226 (latest failure)

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