[q] hippo: create issues for top 3 quick wins

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Q Workflow Optimization Report

Triggered by: /q update hippo to create an issue with the hippo quick wins (3 wins max). add "cookie" label.
Triggered by user: @pelikhan
Discussion: #43498 (🦛 Hippo Memory Insights — 2026-07-05)

Analysis

Reviewed daily-hippo-learn.md and the triggering discussion (#43498). The workflow already identifies top quick wins in Step 4 and posts them in a daily discussion, but had no mechanism to surface them as actionable GitHub issues for the team.

The cookie label is already established as the work-queue label for automated issue workflows across this repository (used by duplicate-code-detector, ci-doctor, workflow-health-manager, etc.).

Changes Made

daily-hippo-learn.md (.github/workflows/daily-hippo-learn.md)

1. Added create-issue safe-output — configures the workflow to post up to 3 issues per run, labeled automated-analysis + cookie, with a [hippo] title prefix and 3-day expiry.
2. Added Step 6 prompt — instructs the agent to create one issue per top quick win (max 3), each including the supporting memory IDs and concrete acceptance criteria.
3. Permissions unchanged — issues: read is sufficient; safe-outputs handles the write side.

Expected Improvements

• Each daily Hippo run surfaces up to 3 actionable quick-win issues in the cookie work queue
• Issues include memory IDs linking back to the source memories for traceability
• Max 3 issues per run prevents noise

Validation

• ✅ daily-hippo-learn.md compiled successfully with no errors or warnings
• Labels resolved: automated-analysis, cookie

Note: .lock.yml file not included — will be regenerated after merge.

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Warning

Protected Files — Push Permission Denied

This was originally intended as a pull request, but the patch modifies protected files. A human must create the pull request manually.

Protected files

• .github/workflows/daily-hippo-learn.md

The push was rejected because GitHub Actions does not have workflows permission to push these changes, and is never allowed to make such changes, or other authorization being used does not have this permission.

Create the pull request manually

# Download the patch from the workflow run
gh run download 28733323906 -n agent -D /tmp/agent-28733323906

# Create a new branch
git checkout -b q/hippo-quick-wins-issue-213486546f540b8f main

# Apply the patch (--3way handles cross-repo patches)
git am --3way /tmp/agent-28733323906/aw-q-hippo-quick-wins-issue.patch

# Push the branch and create the pull request
git push origin q/hippo-quick-wins-issue-213486546f540b8f
gh pr create --title '[q] hippo: create issues for top 3 quick wins' --base main --head q/hippo-quick-wins-issue-213486546f540b8f --repo github/gh-aw

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