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[aw] Workflow Skills Editor failed

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
66/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions, yaml
Domain
ci-cd

Research direction

Start with the failed run at github.com/githubnext/gh-aw-workshop/actions/runs/37588729628 and the workflow file .github/workflow-skills-editor.md (frontmatter safe-outputs / create_pull_request / allowed-files). The error names the blocked file .github/aw/actions-lock.json: check why the patch touches it and whether it belongs in allowed-files or should be excluded from the patch. Done when a rerun of the workflow pushes without the patch modifies files outside the allowed-files list error.

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Description

agentic-workflows
Workflow Failure

Workflow: Workflow Skills Editor
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw-workshop/actions/runs/37588729628

[!WARNING]
Code Push Failed: A code push safe output failed, and subsequent safe outputs were cancelled.

Code Push Errors:

  • create_pull_request: Cannot create pull request: patch modifies files outside the allowed-files list. Add the files to the allowed-files configuration field or remove them from the patch.
Show 1 blocked file

.github/aw/actions-lock.json

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/githubnext/gh-aw-workshop/actions/runs/37588729628
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 Workflow Skills Editor · copilot · 77.6 AIC · ◷

  • expires on Oct 14, 2026, 7:46 AM UTC
Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
52
Forks
26
Avg merge
11h 32m
Merged PRs (30d)
22

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