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[aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer timed out

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
70/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions, yaml
Domain
ci-cd, devtools

Research direction

The failing workflow is at .github/workflows/mattpocock-skills-reviewer.md. Examine the run logs at the provided URL to see where the timeout occurs. The fix is to add or update the timeout-minutes frontmatter setting in that workflow file. After making the change, verify the workflow syntax and consider testing the change in a branch.

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Description

agentic-workflows
Workflow Failure

Workflow: Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer
Branch: copilot/fix-detection-job-image-overrides
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/35909464472
Pull Request: #63014

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
---
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/gh-aw/actions/runs/35909464472
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/gh-aw/actions/runs/35909464472
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 Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer · copilot · 176.9 AIC · ◷

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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