Improve CI investigation instructions to prevent agents from misreading workflow run status#12833
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Improve CI investigation instructions to prevent agents from misreading workflow run status
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I feel like we shouldn't need to teach GitHub Copilot how GitHub Actions works, but perhaps the existing instructions indeed confused it. |
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Agents were confusing
completed/failureworkflow runs within_progressones, causing them to browse stale logs and get confused by already-fixed failures.Changes
head_shaviapull_request_read, then match it againstlist_workflow_runsresults — avoiding accidental inspection of runs for older commitsget_workflow_runbefore reporting status; never rely on a previously-seen valuestatusvsconclusion: explicitly document thatstatus: "completed"+conclusion: "failure"is a done/failed run, not an in-progress one, and thatconclusionmust be checked separately fromstatus📱 Kick off Copilot coding agent tasks wherever you are with GitHub Mobile, available on iOS and Android.