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Workflow Health Dashboard - 2025-12-28 #7940

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Workflow Health Dashboard

Date: December 28, 2025
Run ID: 20547872318
Status: ⚠️ Partial Analysis


📊 Overview

Metric Count Status
Total Workflows 126
Healthy Unknown ⚠️ Need API access
Warning Unknown ⚠️ Need API access
Critical Unknown ⚠️ Need API access
Inactive Unknown ⚠️ Need API access

✅ Compilation Status: EXCELLENT

All Workflows Properly Compiled

  • 126/126 workflows have corresponding .lock.yml files (100%)
  • 0 missing lock files
  • 0 workflows excluded from analysis (shared imports are intentionally not compiled)

This indicates:

  • ✅ All workflows are syntactically valid
  • ✅ Build system is functioning correctly
  • ✅ No compilation errors detected
  • ✅ No broken workflow configurations

⚠️ Runtime Health: Unable to Assess

Blocked by Missing Permissions

Root Cause: Workflow lacks actions: read permission

Cannot Analyze:

  • Workflow execution success/failure rates
  • Recent run history and patterns
  • Error messages and failure types
  • Timeout or resource issues
  • Performance degradation trends
  • Mean time between failures (MTBF)

Impact: Unable to identify:

  • ❌ Consistently failing workflows
  • ❌ Workflows with recent regressions
  • ❌ Systemic issues across multiple workflows
  • ❌ Resource-intensive workflows
  • ❌ Workflows needing urgent attention

🔍 Workflow Inventory (Sample)

From manual inspection of 126 workflows:

Meta-Orchestrators

  • campaign-manager - Campaign coordination
  • agent-performance-analyzer - Agent quality analysis
  • workflow-health-manager - This workflow
  • metrics-collector - Performance data collection

Monitoring & CI/CD

  • ci-doctor - Failed CI investigation
  • ci-coach - CI optimization
  • dev-hawk - Development monitoring
  • smoke-detector - Smoke test aggregation

Issue Management

  • issue-triage-agent - Automated labeling
  • issue-classifier - Classification
  • issue-arborist - Organization
  • issue-monster - Creation management

Code Quality

  • duplicate-code-detector
  • static-analysis-report
  • breaking-change-checker
  • grumpy-reviewer
  • pr-nitpick-reviewer

Documentation

  • daily-doc-updater
  • technical-doc-writer
  • docs-noob-tester
  • developer-docs-consolidator
  • glossary-maintainer

Security

  • security-compliance
  • security-fix-pr
  • daily-malicious-code-scan
  • firewall / firewall-escape

Testing & Validation

  • smoke-copilot, smoke-claude, smoke-codex
  • daily-multi-device-docs-tester
  • smoke-copilot-playwright
  • Multiple smoke test workflows

Campaign

  • go-file-size-reduction-project64.campaign.g - Campaign orchestrator

🚨 Critical Issues

Issue #1: Missing Permissions (P0)

Problem: Cannot access GitHub API to query workflow runs

Required Fix: Add actions: read permission to workflow frontmatter

Current:

permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: read
  pull-requests: read
  discussions: read

Needed:

permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: read
  pull-requests: read
  discussions: read
  actions: read  # ⚠️ ADD THIS

Reference: Issue created in this run documenting the problem


Issue #2: Shared Memory Not Accessible (P1)

Problem: Cannot access shared metrics at /tmp/gh-aw/repo-memory-default/memory/default/

Expected Data:

  • metrics/latest.json - Latest workflow performance metrics
  • metrics/daily/*.json - Historical daily metrics
  • workflow-health-latest.md - Previous run summary
  • campaign-manager-latest.md - Campaign insights
  • agent-performance-latest.md - Agent quality data

Investigation Needed:

  1. Verify metrics-collector workflow ran successfully
  2. Check if memory/meta-orchestrators branch exists
  3. Confirm repo-memory tool configuration
  4. Validate file permissions and paths

Issue #3: File System Restrictions (P2)

Problem: Permission denied when creating files or executing scripts

Impact:

  • Cannot write analysis reports to /tmp
  • Cannot execute automated analysis scripts
  • Cannot persist findings to repo memory
  • Limited to safe-output tools only

Observation: Even basic file writes to /tmp are blocked


📈 Observed Patterns

Engine Distribution

From sample workflows:

  • Copilot: Primary engine (meta-orchestrators, monitoring)
  • Strict mode: Used in security-critical workflows
  • Multi-engine support: copilot, claude, codex, custom

Trigger Patterns

  • Daily schedules: ~5 workflows using on: daily
  • Workflow_run events: CI monitoring, dev tracking
  • Issue/PR events: Automated triage and analysis
  • Manual dispatch: Available on most workflows

Tool Adoption

  • GitHub MCP: Widely used for GitHub API access
  • Repo Memory: Meta-orchestrators share data
  • Agentic Workflows: Meta-workflows query system state
  • Playwright: Browser automation for testing

Safe Outputs

Common patterns:

  • create-issue: {max: 5} - Limited issue creation
  • add-comment: {} - Unlimited comments
  • update-issue: {max: 5} - Limited updates

🎯 Recommendations

Immediate (P0)

  1. Fix permissions - Add actions: read to enable runtime analysis
  2. Verify metrics-collector - Ensure it's running and storing data
  3. Test shared memory - Validate repo-memory configuration

High Priority (P1)

  1. Investigate file system restrictions - Understand why basic file writes fail
  2. Enable script execution - Required for statistical analysis
  3. Set up monitoring - Once API access works, establish baseline metrics

Medium Priority (P2)

  1. Categorize all 126 workflows - Build complete inventory with metadata
  2. Map dependencies - Identify workflow interaction patterns
  3. Optimize schedules - Spread load across time windows
  4. Document patterns - Create workflow design guidelines

📊 Success Metrics (To Be Implemented)

Once permissions are fixed, track:

Metric Target Current
Overall health score ≥ 80/100 Unknown
Workflow success rate ≥ 90% Unknown
Compilation success 100% ✅ 100%
MTBF (mean time between failures) ≥ 7 days Unknown
Critical issues (P0) ≤ 2 3 (permissions)
Warning issues (P1) ≤ 10 Unknown

🔄 Next Steps

  1. Apply permission fix to workflow frontmatter
  2. Re-run workflow with API access enabled
  3. Query workflow runs for the past 7 days
  4. Calculate health scores for each workflow
  5. Identify failures and create targeted issues
  6. Generate full dashboard with actual run data
  7. Coordinate with other meta-orchestrators via shared memory

📝 Files Analyzed

  • .github/workflows/*.md - 126 executable workflows
  • .github/workflows/*.lock.yml - 126 compiled workflows
  • .github/workflows/shared/ - Excluded (reusable imports)

Verification Method: File system enumeration and manual inspection


🎬 Conclusion

Compilation Health: ✅ EXCELLENT - All workflows properly maintained

Runtime Monitoring: ⚠️ BLOCKED - Awaiting permission update

Priority Action: Update workflow permissions to enable full health monitoring capability


Last updated: 2025-12-28T02:58:50Z
Next scheduled run: Daily
Generated by: Workflow Health Manager
Run ID: 20547872318

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