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[aw] Smoke Copilot SDK failed before agent execution started

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
22/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions
Domain
ci-cd

Research direction

Start with the linked run at https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/38657599131 and open the agent job's failed Start MCP Gateway step, since the report records no specific cause. Work out why the agent never started, which may mean reading the gateway and setup logs or the workflow at .github/workflows/smoke-copilot-sdk.md. Done means identifying the root cause and a passing smoke run.

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Description

agentic-workflows cascade-suspected
Workflow Failure

Workflow: Smoke Copilot SDK
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/38657599131

[!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: agent_startup_failure
Agent execution state: not_started
The runtime recorded that agent execution never started. Inspect the failed startup step and gateway/setup logs in the linked run; missing safe outputs are downstream, not evidence that the agent omitted a terminal output.

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: Start MCP Gateway

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/38657599131
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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