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[aw] Issue Classification Agent timed out

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions
Domain
ci-cd

Research direction

Read .github/workflows/issue-classification.md and inspect the linked failed run first. Check the workflow frontmatter and the timeout or guardrail details shown in the run; the work is done when the Issue Classification Agent completes successfully within its allowed execution time.

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Description

agentic-workflows
Workflow Failure

Workflow: Issue Classification Agent
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk/actions/runs/36338519214

Agent Timed Out: The agent job exceeded the maximum allowed execution time (10 minutes).

To increase the timeout, add or update the timeout-minutes setting in your workflow's frontmatter:

---
timeout-minutes: 20
---
Action Required

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

Optimize token consumption

This failure was triggered by a guardrail limit (max-turns / timeout). Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.) to analyze token usage and reduce costs:

Optimize the agentic workflow token consumption using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/optimize.md

The workflow run is at https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk/actions/runs/36338519214
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/github/copilot-sdk/actions/runs/36338519214
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 Issue Classification Agent · copilot · 111.4 AIC · ◷

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