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Propagate invocation-cap guardrail signal in Repo Assist failure handling#74
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[WIP] Fix rate limit handling for Copilot API in workflow
Propagate invocation-cap guardrail signal in Repo Assist failure handling
Aug 6, 2026
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Repo Assist runs could hit Copilot HTTP 429 while consuming only a small fraction of configured max AI credits, but the workflow wasn’t surfacing the explicit budget/invocation-cap guardrail signal in failure reporting. This made rate-limit incidents appear ambiguous in generated issue diagnostics.
Failure-signal wiring
conclusion→Handle agent failureso failure reporting receives the explicit guardrail signal:GH_AW_INVOCATION_CAP_EXCEEDED: ${{ needs.agent.outputs.invocation_cap_exceeded || 'false' }}Behavioral impact
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