published Aug 27, 2026, 8:56 AM · updated Aug 27, 2026, 8:56 AM
Workflow Failure
Workflow: Daily PR Code Quality Review
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/33054436378
Warning
Excessive Tool Denials: The Copilot SDK hit the max tool denial guardrail and stopped the session early (5/5).
Last denied request
read(...)
Last 5 tool calls
viewviewviewviewview
This is a structured guardrail event (guard.tool_denials_exceeded) captured in events.jsonl.
How to fix this
The prompt attempted actions outside the workflow's allowed tools.
Update the workflow prompt and/or permissions so required actions are permitted:
The workflow daily-pr-review-cursor stopped because the Copilot SDK exceeded its tool denial threshold (5/5).
Last denied request:
read(...)
Please update the workflow so the prompt only uses tools permitted by the workflow tool policy.
Agent Timed Out: The agent job exceeded the maximum allowed execution time (20 minutes).
To increase the timeout, add or update the timeout-minutes setting in your workflow's frontmatter:
---
timeout-minutes: 30
---Action Required
Assign this issue to an agent to debug and fix the issue.
Optimize token consumption
This failure was triggered by a guardrail limit (max-tool-denials). Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.) to analyze token usage and reduce costs:
Optimize the agentic workflow token consumption using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/optimize.md
The workflow run is at https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/33054436378
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/actions/runs/33054436378
Manually invoke the agent
Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the agentic-workflows prompt.
- Start your agent
- Load the
agentic-workflowsskill from.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.mdor https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md - Type
debug the agentic workflow daily-pr-review-cursor failure in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/33054436378
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: falseGenerated from Daily PR Code Quality Review · copilot · 22.6 AIC · ◷
- expires on Aug 27, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC