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[aw] Release produced no safe outputs

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions
Domain
ci-cd

Research direction

Start with the failed run at https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/38824545903 and the Release workflow source at .github/workflows/release.md, checking whether the agent called noop or a safeoutputs command that never reached the CLI. The issue does not name a code change, so first find the cause in the logs. Done means the run either emits a safe output or ends with an explicit noop, and the workflow passes.

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Description

agentic-workflows cascade-suspected
Workflow Failure

Workflow: Release
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/38824545903

[!WARNING]
No Safe Outputs Generated: The agent job succeeded but did not produce any safe outputs.

This typically indicates:

  • The safe output server failed to run
  • The prompt failed to generate any meaningful result
  • The agent should have called noop to explicitly indicate no action was taken
  • A safeoutputs CLI command was malformed and never invoked the CLI
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/38824545903
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 Release · copilot · 13.4 AIC · ◷

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