None detected in the sampled window.

⚠️ W1 — Audit agent lacks clearance for [secret]-scoped data

When attempting to download firewall-audit-logs artifacts (artifact IDs: 6086518610, 6086568101, 6082119009) and retrieve job logs for the agent jobs, all responses were filtered by DIFC with the message:

[DIFC] 1 item(s) in this response were removed by integrity policy and are not shown:
resource:actions_get / resource:get_job_logs
(Resource has secrecy requirements that agent doesn't meet.
 The agent is not authorized to access [secret]-scoped data.)

This means the actual DIFC event counts, guard errors, filter ratios, and rpc-messages.jsonl contents could not be inspected in this audit run. The DIFC correctly classified workflow artifacts and job logs as [secret]-scoped data.

Impact: Cannot confirm or rule out internal anomalies (over-filtering, unscoped tags, guard errors) in the 3 confirmed MCP Gateway runs.
Recommendation: Perform deeper audits using a privileged audit runner with secret-clearance credentials, or establish a dedicated DIFC monitoring pipeline that exports sanitized metrics.

⚠️ W2 — Coverage gap: only ~4.3 hours of a 24h window sampled

Due to the extremely high workflow volume (~90 runs per 5 minutes during burst periods, total_count ≈ 379,544 workflow runs), full 24h sampling was not feasible. Runs from 2026-03-23T18:08Z through 2026-03-24T13:49Z were not examined.

Impact: Unknown agent runs from the unsampled 19.7h window could contain anomalies.
Recommendation: Consider a dedicated daily compliance checker workflow that captures real-time DIFC telemetry rather than relying on post-hoc artifact inspection.

ℹ️ I1 — DIFC is actively enforcing access controls

All 4 artifact download attempts and 2 job log retrieval attempts were correctly blocked with [secret]-scoped DIFC labels. This confirms the DIFC pipeline is intercepting GitHub API calls and applying integrity/secrecy labels to workflow artifacts and logs. No bypass or passthrough was observed.

ℹ️ I2 — 3 MCP Gateway agent runs completed successfully with firewall audit logs

The following runs fully executed the MCP Gateway pipeline (including Start MCP Gateway, Stop MCP Gateway, Parse MCP Gateway logs for step summary, and Upload firewall audit logs steps):

All 3 runs: pre_activation ✅ → activation ✅ → agent ✅ → safe_outputs ✅ → conclusion ✅. No job-level failures in the MCP pipeline stages.

The 994 KB agent artifact in the 14:17Z run suggests significantly more agent activity (~10× more than the 17:54Z run), though the cause cannot be determined without log access.

ℹ️ I3 — Active DIFC-related development branches observed

6 "Running Copilot coding agent" runs completed successfully. Two branches are directly DIFC-related:

• copilot/deep-report-handle-integrity-filtered-reads — Agent working on handling integrity-filtered read responses
• copilot/update-difc-proxying-actions — Agent updating DIFC proxying actions

These indicate active investment in DIFC improvements. Review the associated PRs for any changes that may affect the DIFC pipeline behavior.

ℹ️ I4 — 194 action_required runs did not execute MCP Gateway

The largest conclusion category (49.7% of sampled runs) was action_required — these are lock workflows that paused waiting for manual approval before the agent job ran. No MCP Gateway was started in these runs. This is expected behavior for the environment protection system.

ℹ️ I5 — Release v0.63.1 pipeline failure is unrelated to DIFC

Run 23500773396 (Release, 16:32Z) failed at "Setup release environment" in the agent job. This is a release pipeline failure, not an MCP Gateway or DIFC issue. The release artifacts (release-binaries-v0.63.1, SBOMs) were successfully generated before the failure.