[safe-output-health] Safe Output Health Monitor — 2026-09-11: 100% success, zero safe_outputs failures

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Safe Output Health Monitor — 2026-09-11

Window: ~24h ending 2026-09-11 (audit run §34562117697)

Clean day. Of 108 workflow runs analyzed, zero confirmed safe_outputs job failures were found — the second 100% day in this audit history (the first was 2026-09-04). None of the 11 actively-tracked recurring failure signatures (PR Sous Chef approve_workflow_run/update_pull_request issues, Design Decision Gate allowed-files decline, Smoke Copilot hardcoded discussion ID, Smoke Project/Smoke Issues credential failures, submit_pull_request_review non-PR-context, concurrent same-PR write race, create_discussion TypeError) occurred today.

Safe Output Job Statistics

Category	Runs	Confidence
safe_outputs succeeded (job-level data confirmed via audit.json)	55	High — direct
safe_outputs succeeded (inferred: run-level conclusion "success", no per-job artifact available)	30	Medium — architectural inference*
safe_outputs skipped (benign — upstream agent job itself skipped, e.g. yamllint found nothing)	1	High — direct
safe_outputs failed	0	High — direct
Not reached (workflow still in_progress at snapshot time)	3	N/A
Agent-job failure, zero safe-output items queued (out of scope — see below)	19	High for 2 sampled; extrapolated for remainder
Total examined	108

*Architectural inference: the job pipeline in this repo runs a conclusion job that depends on safe_outputs; a safe_outputs failure cascades to an overall run failure. Runs with overall conclusion "success" but no retrievable per-job breakdown are therefore treated as safe_outputs success with medium confidence, not fabricated as directly confirmed.

Success rate: 55/55 = 100% on directly-confirmed data; 85/85 = 100% including the medium-confidence inferred set. Zero confirmed failures either way.

The 19-run cluster: confirmed out of scope, not a safe-output problem

19 runs (13 across "Test Quality Sentinel", "Impeccable Skills Reviewer", "PR Code Quality Reviewer", "Ponytail Reviewer", "Design Decision Gate", "Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer"; plus "AI Moderator" ×2 and "Front Page Copy Guard" ×1) had an overall run conclusion of "failure" with only a generic audit.json message ("Workflow X failed with 1 error(s)") and no jobs array, making them look ambiguous at first pass. Fresh targeted log pulls (via agenticworkflows logs, artifacts:["all"]) against two representative samples — run §34552425032 (Test Quality Sentinel) and run §34556225318 (AI Moderator) — both show total_safe_items: 0 and write_runs: 0: the agent job failed (per prior history, likely at the CLI-execution step) before any safe-output item was ever queued. Six of the thirteen review-bot runs (all 34552425*) additionally share an identical trigger commit, branch, and duration fingerprint, consistent with one upstream event affecting a batch of PR-review workflows simultaneously rather than 13 independent issues. Per the scope of this monitor (safe-output jobs only, agent-job failures explicitly excluded), this cluster requires no action from this report, but is noted for awareness of the agent-job-failure monitor since it was not clear from summary-level data alone.

Methodology and full stats

• Enumerated all 108 run directories under /tmp/gh-aw/aw-mcp/logs/run-* (run-34550588344 through run-34562144183) via Glob, then read audit.json per run (falling back to targeted Grep against run_summary.json where audit.json was absent) to extract the jobs array and the safe_outputs entry conclusion for each run, delegated to a subagent to keep this within budget.
• Where audit.json lacked a jobs array entirely, cross-checked a 2-run sample with a fresh agenticworkflows logs pull (artifacts:["all"]) to confirm total_safe_items: 0 before concluding the cluster is an agent-job issue, not a safe_outputs job issue.
• Excluded 3 in-progress runs (including the run for this monitor itself) from the failure-rate denominator rather than guessing the outcome.
• No gh CLI or write APIs used; all reads via Read/Glob/Grep on cached logs plus the read-only agenticworkflows logs tool.

Trend vs. prior audit history

Recent daily safe_outputs success rates: 08-22 99.45%, 08-23 98.94%, 08-25 98.92%, 08-26 99.34%, 08-28 98.6%, 08-29 98.3%, 08-30 99.66%, 08-31 99.52%, 09-02 98.84%, 09-03 98.95%, 09-04 100.0%, 09-05 97.4%, 09-06 99.57%, 09-10 98.1%, 09-11 100.0% (today).

All previously-tracked open items remain unshipped and unchanged today (no new occurrences, no new information):

• grant-actions-write-fork-pr-scope (PR Sous Chef fork-PR permission gap) — still proposed.
• reclassify-protected-file-decline-as-non-failure (approve_workflow_run protected-files decline) — still proposed.
• reclassify-allowed-files-decline-as-non-failure (push_to_pull_request_branch allowed-files decline, Design Decision Gate) — still proposed, unresolved since 2026-08-28.
• fix-hardcoded-smoke-discussion-temp-id (Smoke Copilot variants) — still proposed.
• reclassify-submit-pr-review-no-context-as-skip (Smoke Claude) — still proposed.
• retry-update-branch-with-fresh-head-sha (PR Sous Chef update_pull_request stale SHA, first seen 2026-09-10) — still only 1 occurrence; no recurrence today.
• investigate-smoke-project-bad-credentials, investigate-smoke-issues-jira-linear-credentials — no Smoke Project or Smoke Issues runs appeared in the 108-run window today at all (either did not run, or scheduled outside this window), so no new data either way.

Recommendations

1. No critical action required — zero confirmed safe_outputs job failures today.
2. Bug-fixes backlog (unchanged, still unshipped, no new occurrences today): the 6 open recurring-failure items above remain the actionable backlog; none regressed or recurred in this window.
3. Config/process: consider whether the 19-run degraded-audit cluster (no jobs array despite a real run) points to an audit.json generation gap worth flagging to whoever owns that tooling — not a safe-output bug, but it cost extra investigation effort today to rule out.
4. Next steps: no new work items opened this cycle. Continue monitoring retry-update-branch-with-fresh-head-sha for a 2nd occurrence before committing to a specific fix design.

Overall safe-output health remains excellent — 100% for the second time in the 3-week audit history.

References:

• §34552425032 — Test Quality Sentinel, sampled to confirm zero safe-output items (out of scope)
• §34556225318 — AI Moderator, sampled to confirm zero safe-output items (out of scope)
• §34562117697 — this audit run

[!WARNING]

Firewall blocked 1 domain

The following domain was blocked by the firewall during workflow execution:

• api.anthropic.com

To allow these domains, add them to the network.allowed list in your workflow frontmatter:

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "api.anthropic.com"

See Network Configuration for more information.

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