[safe-output-health] 🏥 Safe Output Health Report - 2026-07-15

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Executive Summary

• Period: 2026-07-15 early-morning batch (04:01Z–04:56Z, ~55 min)
• Runs Analyzed: 51
• Workflows Active: 21 distinct
• Safe Output Jobs Executed: 51
• Safe Output Jobs Failed: 0
• Error Clusters Identified: 0

Verdict: FULLY CLEAN. Every one of the 51 safe_outputs jobs concluded success. This is the 3rd consecutive fully-clean read-only day (07-13: 62/62, 07-14: 35/35, 07-15: 51/51). The only run-level failures (3) were agent-job failures — out of scope for this monitor — and each of those runs still handed off cleanly to a successful safe_outputs job.

Scope note: This monitor audits safe-output jobs only (create_discussion, create_issue, add_comment, create_pull_request, add_labels, push_to_pull_request_branch, update_issue, missing_tool, etc.). Agent-job and detection-job failures are handled by other monitors.

Safe Output Job Statistics

Job Type	Total Executions	Failures	Success Rate
safe_outputs (job-level, all handler types)	51	0	100%
create_discussion	0 (not actuated)	0	n/a
create_issue	0 (not actuated)	0	n/a
add_comment	0 (not actuated)	0	n/a
create_pull_request	0 (not actuated)	0	n/a
create_pull_request_review_comment	0 (not actuated)	0	n/a
update_issue / add_labels / push_to_pull_request_branch	0 (not actuated)	0	n/a

All 51 runs reported SafeItemsCount=0 / NoopCount=0 / MissingToolCount=0 / MissingDataCount=0 / ErrorCount=0. Every safe_outputs job ran as a clean no-op pass — the handlers were present and healthy but no write-capable messages were emitted this window.

Error Clusters

None. Zero in-scope safe-output job failures. No error clusters to report.

Root Cause Analysis

• API-Related Issues: None. No 422/404/403 from any safe-output handler (none actuated).
• Data Validation Issues: None. No collection-time rejections, no malformed-output failures.
• Permission Issues: None in scope. (Standing known gap — safe_outputs token lacks Discussions write scope — was not exercised: no add_comment→discussion retry path fired.)
• Out-of-scope agent failures: 3× Smoke CI runs failed at the Execute GitHub Copilot CLI step (agent job). Runs §29388332183, §29388698874, §29389225767. In all three, the downstream safe_outputs job still concluded success via clean handoff (no buffered items).

Recommendations

Critical Issues (Immediate Action Required)

None. No safe-output job failed.

Standing-Open Signatures (Unexercised — Monitor, Do Not Act Yet)

These remain latent because the write paths that would trigger them were not exercised this read-only window:

1. Changeset Generator patch-format:BUNDLE bundle-transport — Priority: High. ABSENT from window; last actuating occurrence 2026-06-26 (~19 days). Highest-priority open production signature, still UNVALIDATED. No regression this window.
2. review_path_unresolved_422 Path-variant fallback (pr_review_buffer.cjs:554) — Priority: Medium. UNVALIDATED for the 47th consecutive audit. The full line-anchored reviewer suite was present at scale (Impeccable Skills ×5, Matt Pocock ×4, PR Code Quality ×5, Test Quality Sentinel ×5, Design Decision Gate ×5) but all read-only — no review comments emitted, so no 422 to trigger the fallback.
3. Firewall create_discussion-not-wired (07-11 headline) — Priority: Medium. Daily Firewall Logs Collector ABSENT this window; hardfail has NOT recurred for 4 consecutive audits. Prompt-vs-config reconciliation still unvalidated.
4. Smoke target:'*' family (review-comment / add_comment→discussion / add_labels-no-context) — Priority: Low-Medium. Smoke CI ×3 present but agent-failed; no Smoke Claude/Copilot workflow_dispatch emitted target:'*' outputs. Latent.
5. LintMonster update_issue target:'*' — Priority: Low. LintMonster ABSENT; 06-11 target:'triggering' hardfail not re-exercised.

Process Improvements

1. Observability — pre-bundle the Process Safe Outputs step stdout. Recurring gap: only the usage artifact is pre-bundled, so exact per-message actuation counts aren't independently verifiable. Job-level conclusions remain authoritative, but message-level forensics require per-run MCP fetches.
2. logs MCP tool 60s timeout. The logs fetch (start_date=-1d, count=200) again hit context deadline exceeded at 60s — same failure mode as 07-11/07-13/07-14. The on-disk pre-bundled cache (51 runs with full job_details[]) covered the analysis, but a larger/paged fetch or higher timeout would close the coverage gap.

Work Item Plans

Work Item 1: Exercise & validate review_path_422 Path-variant fallback

• Type: Investigation / Test Coverage
• Priority: Medium
• Description: pr_review_buffer.cjs:554 Path-variant fix has been unvalidated for 47 consecutive audits because reviewers keep running read-only (no findings → no review comments).
• Acceptance Criteria:
  • A reviewer run emits line/path-anchored create_pull_request_review_comment messages against a live PR
  • Confirm no 422 on the happy path, OR confirm the Path-variant fallback fires and recovers on a 422
• Technical Approach: Trigger a reviewer (e.g. Matt Pocock / PR Code Quality) on a PR with reviewable diffs, or add a smoke case that forces a stale-position review comment.
• Estimated Effort: Small

Work Item 2: Close the pre-bundled-artifact observability gap

• Type: Enhancement
• Priority: Low-Medium
• Description: Pre-bundle Process Safe Outputs step stdout so per-message actuation results are auditable without per-run MCP fetches, and address the 60s logs-tool timeout.
• Acceptance Criteria:
  • Process Safe Outputs stdout available in pre-bundled logs
  • logs fetch for a 24h window completes without context deadline exceeded
• Estimated Effort: Medium

Historical Context

Date	Runs	safe_outputs jobs	Failures	Success	Notes
2026-07-15	51	51	0	100%	Fully clean, read-only (3rd consecutive)
2026-07-14	35	35	0	100%	Fully clean, read-only (2nd consecutive)
2026-07-13	63	62	0	100%	Fully clean, read-only
2026-07-12	54	35	0	100%	Clean + write-rich (91 messages)
2026-07-11	15	15	1	93.3%	Firewall create_discussion-not-wired hardfail

Trends

• Error-rate trend: Stable at 0 in-scope failures — 4 consecutive clean audits since the 07-11 hardfail.
• Actuation trend: 3 consecutive fully-read-only days (07-13/14/15). No write-capable messages emitted, so remediations (Changeset bundle, review_path_422 Path-variant) stay unvalidated by lack of exercise, not by regression.
• Most reliable job type: All handlers — 100% job-level success across 51 runs.
• Most problematic job type: None this window.

Metrics and KPIs

• Overall Safe Output Job Success Rate: 100% (51/51)
• In-scope safe-output failures: 0
• Run-level failures (all out-of-scope agent-job): 3 (Smoke CI ×3)
• Write-capable messages actuated: 0 (read-only window)

Next Steps

• No remediation required — no in-scope failure.
• Continue monitoring for recurrence of the 07-11 firewall create_discussion-not-wired hardfail (4 audits clean).
• Trigger a reviewer write path to validate review_path_422 Path-variant (47th unvalidated audit).
• Watch for Changeset Generator returning (~19 days without BUNDLE actuation; highest-priority open signature).
• Address the recurring logs-tool 60s timeout and pre-bundle Process Safe Outputs stdout.

References:

• §29388332183 — Smoke CI (agent-fail, safe_outputs=success)
• §29390184691 — PR Code Quality Reviewer (safe_outputs=success, read-only)
• §29389266319 — Issue Monster (safe_outputs=success, read-only)

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