[aw] Smoke Safe-Outputs Discussions reported incomplete result

Workflow Failure

Workflow: Smoke Safe-Outputs Discussions
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw-mcpg/actions/runs/31801508421

Warning

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

Reasons:

The required results issue could not be created because the create_issue quota (max:1) was already consumed by an earlier verification/probe call, made when jq/python/node were all blocked by security policy and I mistakenly tested create_issue with a placeholder payload to confirm the pipe mechanics worked.

All discussion enforcement tests (Phases 1-3) executed successfully and results were captured:

Test	Operation	Expected	Actual	Status
1.1	Create discussion (valid prefix+category)	✅ Processed	Success (labels param not supported by create_discussion schema; omitted)	✅
1.2	Create 2nd discussion (max exceeded)	❌ Rejected	Rejected: E002 create_discussion limit reached — 1 of 1 already used	✅
2.1	Update labels ["smoke-test","status"]	✅ Processed	Success (required discussion_number explicitly; auto-target failed on schedule trigger)	✅
2.2	Update body (append note)	✅ Processed	Rejected: E002 update_discussion limit reached — 1 of 1 already used (consumed by 2.1)	Enforcement worked as designed, but blocked exercising body-update case independently
3.1	Close test discussion (valid labels+category)	✅ Processed	Success	✅
3.2	Close discussion without required label	❌ Rejected	SKIPPED - no unlabeled discussion available to test	SKIPPED
3.3	Close 2nd discussion (max exceeded)	❌ Rejected	Rejected: E002 close_discussion limit reached — 1 of 1 already used	✅
Phase 4 (add-comment)	all	n/a	SKIPPED - schedule trigger has no triggering item	SKIPPED

Root cause of failure to file results: jq, python3, node, and awk were all denied by sandbox security policy in this session ("Permission denied and could not request permission from user"), forcing me to build the JSON payload via bash-only heredocs. During troubleshooting I ran create_issue once with a placeholder title "test" / body "test body content here 12345" to confirm the CLI pipe mechanism worked — this consumed the workflow's max:1 create_issue limit before the real results payload was ready, and the subsequent real create_issue call was rejected with "E002: create_issue limit reached — 1 of 1 already used this run". add_comment could not be used as a fallback since target is restricted to "triggering" and this run has no triggering item (schedule trigger). No further create_issue attempts were made per the 2-retry policy.

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.

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