Check Workflows

Check GitHub Actions workflow runs from the past day for severe or consistent failures and file a GitHub issue if actionable problems are found.

Arguments

• $ARGUMENTS: (Optional) Number of hours to look back (default: 24)

Instructions

1. Gather recent workflow runs

Fetch all workflow runs from the past N hours (default 24):

gh run list --limit 100 --json workflowName,status,conclusion,event,headBranch,createdAt,databaseId,url,name

Filter to only runs created within the lookback window. Group runs by workflow name.

2. Classify each failure

For each failed run, determine if it is expected or actionable by checking these rules:

Expected failures (IGNORE these):

1. Nightly Runner Cleanup: This workflow intentionally reboots self-hosted macOS runners, which kills the runner process mid-job. It will almost always show as "failed" even when working correctly. Always skip this workflow entirely.

2. Cascading failures from CI: When the main CI workflow fails, these downstream workflows will also fail because they depend on CI artifacts (e.g. html-report, blob reports). This is noise, not an independent problem:

   • Playwright Report Comment (fails with "artifact not found")
   • Upload to Flakiness.io (fails when no flakiness reports exist)
   • Merge PR when ready (skipped/fails when CI hasn't passed)

3. CLA Assistant: Failures just mean a contributor hasn't signed the CLA yet. This resolves on its own.

4. Cancelled runs: Runs cancelled due to concurrency groups (newer push cancels older run) are normal.

5. action_required / neutral conclusions: Standard GitHub behavior for fork PRs or first-time contributors needing manual approval.

6. CI failures on non-main branches: Individual PR CI failures are expected — contributors may have formatting issues, lockfile mismatches, test failures, etc. These are the contributor's responsibility.

7. Claude Deflake E2E: This workflow is expected to sometimes have long runs or partial failures as it investigates flaky tests.

Actionable failures (FLAG these):

1. Permission errors: Workflow can't access secrets, missing GITHUB_TOKEN, 403/401 errors on API calls that should be authenticated, Resource not accessible by integration errors.

2. Consistent CI failures on main branch: If the CI workflow fails on 2+ consecutive pushes to main, something is likely broken. Check if different commits are failing for the same reason.

3. Infrastructure failures: Self-hosted runners not coming back online (check if Nightly Runner Cleanup's verify steps are failing), runners consistently unavailable, disk space issues.

4. Repeated rate limiting: If GitHub API rate limiting is causing the same workflow to fail across multiple runs (not just a one-off).

5. Action version issues: Deprecated or broken GitHub Action versions causing failures.

6. Workflow configuration errors: YAML syntax errors, invalid inputs, missing required secrets (distinct from permission issues).

7. Scheduled workflow failures: If a scheduled/cron workflow (other than Nightly Runner Cleanup) fails consistently, it likely indicates a systemic issue.

3. Investigate actionable failures

For each potentially actionable failure, get more details:

gh run view <run_id> --log-failed 2>/dev/null | head -100

Look for:

• The specific error message
• Whether the failure is in a setup step (infrastructure) vs. a test/build step (code)
• Whether the same failure appears across multiple runs

4. Determine severity

After investigation, categorize actionable failures:

• SEVERE: Permission errors, infrastructure down, main branch consistently broken, workflow configuration errors
• MODERATE: Repeated rate limiting, deprecated action warnings, intermittent infrastructure issues
• LOW: One-off transient failures that resolved on retry

Only proceed to file an issue if there are SEVERE or MODERATE findings.

5. Check for existing issues

Before creating a new issue, check if there's already an open issue about workflow problems:

gh issue list --label "workflow-health" --state open --json number,title,body

If an existing issue covers the same problems, do not create a duplicate. Instead, add a comment to the existing issue with the latest findings.

6. File a GitHub issue

If there are actionable findings (SEVERE or MODERATE), create a GitHub issue:

gh issue create --title "Workflow issues: <X>, <Y>, and <Z>" --label "workflow-health" --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Workflow Health Report

**Period:** <start_time> to <end_time>
**Total runs checked:** <N>
**Failures found:** <N actionable> actionable, <N expected> expected (ignored)

## Issues Found

### <Issue 1 Title>
- **Workflow:** <workflow name>
- **Severity:** SEVERE / MODERATE
- **Failed runs:**
  - [Run #<id>](<url>) — <date>
  - [Run #<id>](<url>) — <date>
- **Error:** <brief error description>
- **Suggested fix:** <how to resolve>

### <Issue 2 Title>
...

## Expected Failures (Ignored)
<Brief summary of expected failures that were skipped and why>

---
*This issue was automatically created by the daily workflow health check.*
EOF
)"

The issue title should list the specific problems found (e.g., "Workflow issues: CI permissions error, flakiness upload rate-limited"). Keep it concise but descriptive.

7. Report results

Summarize:

• How many workflow runs were checked
• How many were expected failures (and which categories)
• How many were actionable (and what was found)
• Whether an issue was filed (with link) or if everything looks healthy
• If no actionable issues were found, report "All workflows healthy" and do not create an issue