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[aw] Repo Assist failed

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
fsharp, github-actions
Domain
ci-cd, tooling

Research direction

Start with the failed run linked in the issue and read gh-aw's debug.md plus .github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md. Inspect the Repo Assist workflow and its handling of contributor-fork permissions, then reproduce the failure. Done means the workflow failure is diagnosed and Repo Assist can complete or report the issue without the unexpected engine termination.

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Description

agentic-workflows
Workflow Failure

Workflow: Repo Assist
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharp.Data/actions/runs/36399682341

[!WARNING]
Engine Failure: The copilot engine terminated unexpectedly.

Last agent output:

The PR branch is on a contributor fork not authorized for pushes. Per policy, I'll post the fix as a comment/patch on the PR instead.
● add_comment (MCP: safeoutputs) · body: "🤖 *This is an automated response from Repo Assist.*  I l…
  └ {"result":"success","temporary_id":"aw_JgvtH87m","comment":"#aw_JgvtH87m"}
[safeoutputs-cli] hasTerminalSafeOutput: terminal entry found in /home/runner/work/_temp/gh-aw/safeoutputs/outputs.jsonl: type=add_comment
Posted the fix as a comment on PR #1800 since I can't push directly to a fork branch. This completes the requested task — I'll exit without running the normal scheduled workflow.
**Summary:** All 3 failing CI jobs (`check-format`, `build-ubuntu`, `build-windows`) shared one root cause: `Helpers.fs` needed Fantomas formatting. I verified the fix locally (CheckFormat + Build now pass) but couldn't push it since the PR branch is on a contributor fork not authorized for automated pushes. I posted the exact diff as a PR comment for @Thorium to apply.
Changes    +0 -0
Duration   4m 1s
Tokens     ↑ 2.9m (2.8m cached) • ↓ 8.3k
Resume     copilot --resume=7282b2a1-b983-4375-9eed-8e0d5b8ccccb
Action Required

Assign this issue to an agent to debug and fix the issue.

Debug with any coding agent

Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.):

Debug the agentic workflow failure using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/debug.md

The failed workflow run is at https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharp.Data/actions/runs/36399682341
Manually invoke the agent

Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the agentic-workflows prompt.

[!TIP]

Stop reporting this workflow as a failure

To stop a workflow from creating failure issues, set report-failure-as-issue: false in its frontmatter:

safe-outputs:
  report-failure-as-issue: false

Generated from Repo Assist · copilot · 87 AIC · ◷

Dominant language
F#
Stars
875
Forks
281
Avg merge
14d 9m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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