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[aw] Smoke OTel Tracing: timed out

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions, typescript, yaml
Domain
ci-cd, devtools

Research direction

Start with the .github/workflows/smoke-otel-tracing.md workflow and inspect run #40891787329 for why the agent exceeded its 15-minute limit without terminal safe output. The issue suggests checking the workflow timeout and agent token use; follow the linked workflow run and debugging prompt. Done means the smoke workflow completes and confirms task completion.

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Description

agentic-workflows
What happened

Smoke OTel Tracing timed out.

View run #40891787329 · Workflow source · Previous failures

Branch: main

Next step

Review the failure details below for a targeted fix, or assign this issue to a coding agent to investigate.

Failure details

Agent Timed Out: The agent job exceeded the maximum allowed execution time (15 minutes).

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

---
timeout-minutes: 25
---
Runtime evidence

[!WARNING]
Task Could Not Be Completed: The workflow recorded a report_incomplete signal: the task was not completed or completion could not be confirmed.

Error details: 
Failure classification: engine_outage
Driver exit code: 0
Last tool call status: not recorded
Failed tool calls observed: 0
Token budget state: unknown (no exhaustion signal recorded)
Step budget state (LLM invocations): unknown (no exhaustion signal recorded)
Safe-output tools: available at gateway snapshot (registered 7 tools)
Safe-output CLI calls observed: unknown (not recorded)
Safe-output MCP calls observed: 0
Safe-output persistence: not recorded
Agent finished without emitting a terminal safe output; task completion could not be confirmed.
Retry attempts observed: 0

A comment or other safe output does not confirm that the requested task was completed. Only inferred runtime status and error codes are reported; agent text is excluded.

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/gh-aw-firewall/actions/runs/40891787329
Copy a debugging prompt

Paste this into your coding agent:

Debug the agentic workflow "smoke-otel-tracing" failure.
Follow https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/debug.md
Failed run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall/actions/runs/40891787329

If the repository includes the agentic-workflows skill, load it before investigating.

Manage failure notifications

To stop creating failure issues for this workflow, set this in its frontmatter and recompile:

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

This only disables issue reporting; it does not fix the failure.

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  • expires on Nov 5, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
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Forks
80
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
418

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