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fix(audit): surface activation job errors when no agent artifacts were uploaded#19678

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When a workflow fails at activation (before the agent runs), no artifacts are uploaded, so gh run download returns ErrNoArtifacts. The original code deleted the output directory and returned early, leaving extractPreAgentStepErrors with no workflow-logs/ to scan — producing an audit report with zero error details.

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  • pkg/cli/logs_download.go — In the ErrNoArtifacts path of downloadRunArtifacts, call downloadWorkflowRunLogs before returning. Workflow run logs are always available via the GitHub API regardless of artifact upload status. Only remove the output directory if log download also fails and leaves the directory empty.
// Before: directory removed, ErrNoArtifacts returned immediately
if err := os.RemoveAll(outputDir); ...) { ... }
return ErrNoArtifacts

// After: attempt log download first; clean up only if that also produces nothing
if logErr := downloadWorkflowRunLogs(runID, outputDir, verbose, owner, repo, hostname); logErr != nil {
    if fileutil.IsDirEmpty(outputDir) {
        os.RemoveAll(outputDir)
    }
}
return ErrNoArtifacts

With workflow-logs/{job}/ populated, extractPreAgentStepErrors can scan ##[error] annotations from activation step logs and populate AuditData.Errors with the actual failure reason.

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<issue_title>[cli-tools-test] audit: no diagnostic details shown for workflows that fail at the activation job</issue_title>
<issue_description>## Problem Description

When auditing a workflow run that fails before the agent job runs (e.g., at the activation or pre_activation job), the audit tool returns no downloaded files and no error details, making it impossible to debug the failure.

Affected Tool

  • Tool: audit (MCP agenticworkflows-audit)
  • Affected run IDs: 22693958004, 22690865467, 22691884770, 22689634900, 22694877580 (all "Issue Monster" failures)

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Find a workflow run that fails at the activation job (not the agent job)
  2. Run gh aw audit (run_id) or use the agenticworkflows-audit MCP tool
  3. Observe the output
gh aw audit 22693958004

Expected Behavior

The audit report should include:

  • The actual error message from the failing activation job step
  • Relevant log snippets (at minimum from the activation job)
  • An "Errors" section with specific details about what failed

Actual Behavior

The audit returns:

  • downloaded_files: null — no files are downloaded
  • Key findings only state: "Workflow 'Issue Monster' failed with 1 error(s)"no specifics
  • Recommendations say: "Check the Errors section below for specific error messages"but there is no Errors section
{
  "metrics": { "error_count": 1 },
  "key_findings": [{
    "title": "Workflow Failed",
    "description": "Workflow 'Issue Monster' failed with 1 error(s)",
    "severity": "critical"
  }],
  "recommendations": [{
    "action": "Review error logs to identify root cause of failure",
    "example": "Check the Errors section below for specific error messages and file locations"
  }],
  "downloaded_files": null
}

Root Cause

The audit command uses gh run download to fetch uploaded GitHub Actions artifacts. When a workflow fails before the agent job (e.g., activation fails), no agent artifacts are uploaded — so gh run download returns ErrNoArtifacts. The audit then proceeds with an empty runOutputDir, so extractDownloadedFiles() returns nothing.

The existing code in audit_report.go (line 251–255) attempts to call extractPreAgentStepErrors(run.LogsPath) for failed runs, but this also fails because run.LogsPath is empty.

The underlying GitHub Actions job logs are always available via the GitHub API (e.g., gh run view --log), but the audit command does not fall back to fetching them when artifact download finds nothing.

Impact

  • Severity: High
  • Frequency: Every time a workflow fails at activation (e.g., due to missing/invalid configuration, checkout failures, or environment errors)
  • Workaround: Manually navigate to the GitHub Actions run URL and inspect individual job logs
  • Affected users: Anyone trying to debug why a workflow failed at startup

Reproduction Data

Consistently reproducible with the "Issue Monster" workflow which has been failing at activation on every run for the past 24+ hours:

Run ID Duration Failure job
22693958004 51s activation
22690865467 54s activation
22691884770 50s activation
22689634900 56s activation

All runs show jobs[activation].conclusion = "failure" and jobs[agent].conclusion = "skipped".

Suggested Fix

When ErrNoArtifacts is returned and the run has conclusion = "failure":

  1. Fall back to downloading job-level logs using gh run view --log --job (activation_job_id)
  2. Extract the error from the activation job's last steps
  3. Populate the errors field and downloaded_files with these job logs

Alternatively, always attempt to download workflow job logs in addition to artifacts for failed runs.

Environment

  • Repository: github/gh-aw
  • Testing run ID: 22695039958
  • Date: 2026-03-04
  • gh-aw version: 0.0.421

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Co-authored-by: pelikhan <4175913+pelikhan@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: pelikhan <4175913+pelikhan@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Fix audit tool to show diagnostic details for workflow failures fix(audit): surface activation job errors when no agent artifacts were uploaded Mar 5, 2026
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Pull request overview

Fixes missing audit diagnostics for workflow runs that fail before agent artifacts are uploaded by downloading workflow run logs even when gh run download reports no artifacts.

Changes:

  • Update downloadRunArtifacts to attempt downloadWorkflowRunLogs on the ErrNoArtifacts path and only delete the output directory if it’s still empty.
  • Simplify the actions/setup-cli/install.sh gh extension install flow and adjust the GitHub Actions output value.
  • Bump pinned versions in constraint-solving-potd.lock.yml (agent version, mcpg image) and add a concurrency block for the conclusion job.

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File Description
pkg/cli/logs_download.go Falls back to downloading workflow logs when no artifacts are present, enabling pre-agent error extraction.
actions/setup-cli/install.sh Changes how gh-aw is installed via gh extension install and what version is reported to Actions outputs.
.github/workflows/constraint-solving-potd.lock.yml Updates pinned tool/image versions and adds conclusion-job concurrency.
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actions/setup-cli/install.sh:253

  • installed_version is being set to the requested ${VERSION} rather than the detected ${INSTALLED_VERSION} from gh aw version. This can report an incorrect value (e.g., when ${VERSION} is latest or when gh extension install installs a different version than requested). Prefer writing ${INSTALLED_VERSION} here.
            # Set output for GitHub Actions
            if [ -n "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}" ]; then
                echo "installed_version=${VERSION}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
            fi

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if [ $install_result -eq 0 ]; then
# Try to install using gh
if gh extension install "$REPO" --force 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gh-install.log; then
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The gh extension install ... | tee ... pipeline will report success based on tee’s exit code (since this script only uses set -e, not set -o pipefail). This can mask install failures and incorrectly skip the manual-install fallback (especially if an older gh-aw is already installed). Consider enabling set -o pipefail for this block or capturing the PIPESTATUS[0] from the gh extension install command explicitly.

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if gh extension install "$REPO" --force 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gh-install.log; then
gh extension install "$REPO" --force 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gh-install.log
gh_install_status=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
if [ "$gh_install_status" -eq 0 ]; then

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This gh extension install path no longer respects the requested $VERSION (it always installs the latest) even though the script supports ./install-gh-aw.sh vX.Y.Z. If version pinning is required, restore the --pin "$VERSION" behavior (when $VERSION != latest) or otherwise ensure the installed version matches the requested one.

This issue also appears on line 250 of the same file.

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@pelikhan pelikhan merged commit 35001cf into main Mar 5, 2026
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@pelikhan pelikhan deleted the copilot/fix-audit-tool-issues branch March 5, 2026 03:50
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[cli-tools-test] audit: no diagnostic details shown for workflows that fail at the activation job

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