[aw] Nightly Workflow Upgrader reported incomplete result

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Workflow Failure

Workflow: Nightly Workflow Upgrader
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw-mcpg/actions/runs/34139759366

Warning

Task Could Not Be Completed: The agent reported that the task could not be performed due to an infrastructure or tool failure.

Reasons:

• Cannot complete nightly workflow upgrade: gh CLI is unauthenticated in this sandbox (GH_TOKEN not set) and the gh-aw extension is not installed. Attempting gh extension list/install fails with 403 Forbidden when hitting the GitHub API for github/gh-aw releases, and gh aw version cannot run since the extension isn't present.

  Ran: gh aw version -> command not found (extension missing). gh extension list -> "failed to install extension: could not check for binary extension: Get https://api.github.com/repos/github/gh-aw/releases/latest: Forbidden" and separately "gh: To use GitHub CLI in a GitHub Actions workflow, set the GH_TOKEN environment variable." No GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN present in env. The GitHub MCP server is read-only per policy, so it cannot be used to install extensions or run gh aw upgrade/gh aw compile either. Without an authenticated gh CLI and the gh-aw extension installed, the required steps (check current version, check latest release, run gh aw upgrade, detect changes, compile workflows) cannot be executed in this environment.

This is a structured incompletion signal (report_incomplete), not a real task outcome. Any other safe outputs emitted alongside this signal (e.g., comments) describe the failure state, not a completed review or action.

Action Required

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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-mcpg/actions/runs/34139759366

Manually invoke the agent

Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the agentic-workflows prompt.

• Start your agent
• Load the agentic-workflows skill from .github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md or https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md
• Type debug the agentic workflow nightly-workflow-compiler failure in https://github.com/github/gh-aw-mcpg/actions/runs/34139759366

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 Nightly Workflow Upgrader · copilot · 24.5 AIC · ◷

• expires on Sep 14, 2026, 3:47 PM UTC