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[aw] Smoke Copilot MAI finished without a clear failure cause

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, github-actions, go
Domain
ai-infra-agents, ci-cd, devops

Research direction

Start with the linked run and inspect the failing “Verify agent session artifact” step; the issue says the runtime recorded an unknown cause, an engine driver exit code of 1, and no terminal safe output. Read the workflow at .github/workflows/smoke-copilot-mai.md and the debugging guide at debug.md, then trace how session artifacts are verified. Done means identifying and fixing the failure cause so the workflow run records successful completion.

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Description

agentic-workflows
Workflow Failure

Workflow: Smoke Copilot MAI
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/38325323879

[!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: unknown
Driver exit code: 1. The engine driver exited before a terminal safe output was recorded.
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 6 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.
Last engine error type: unknown
Retry attempts observed: 1

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.

Failure Diagnostics

Agent job: agent
Agent job conclusion: failure
Failing step: Verify agent session artifact

The runtime did not record a specific cause. Check the linked run for failure details.

Only runtime metadata is shown; agent-generated text is excluded.

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/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/38325323879
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

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