[aw] Code Scanning Fixer exceeded tool denial limit

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Workflow Failure

Workflow: Code Scanning Fixer
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/36207581038

Warning

Excessive Tool Denials: The Copilot SDK hit the max tool denial guardrail and stopped the session early (3/3).

Last denied request

shell(F=/tmp/1790385270224-copilot-tool-output-390-54e2fb34-d8ad-4e2c-b619-7c72ee54a8f3.txt
grep -n '^\[' "$F" | head -5
echo "---"
# find the JSON body start
grep -n '"number"' "$F" | wc -l)

Last 5 tool calls

• bash(github --help 2>&1 | head -50)
• bash(github list_code_scanning_alerts --help 2>&1 | head -40)
• bash(github list_code_scanning_alerts --owner github --repo gh-aw --state open --severity critical,high 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gh...)
• bash(github list_code_scanning_alerts --owner github --repo gh-aw --state open)
• bash(F=/tmp/1790385270224-copilot-tool-output-390-54e2fb34-d8ad-4e2c-b619-7c72ee54a8f3.txt grep -n '^\[' "$F" | head -5 ec...)

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 code-scanning-fixer stopped because the Copilot SDK exceeded its tool denial threshold (3/3).
Last denied request:
shell(F=/tmp/1790385270224-copilot-tool-output-390-54e2fb34-d8ad-4e2c-b619-7c72ee54a8f3.txt
grep -n '^\[' "$F" | head -5
echo "---"
# find the JSON body start
grep -n '"number"' "$F" | wc -l)

Please update the workflow so the prompt only uses tools permitted by the workflow tool policy.

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/36207581038

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/36207581038

Manually invoke the agent

Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the agentic-workflows prompt.

• Start your agent
• Load the agentic-workflows skill from .github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md or https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md
• Type debug the agentic workflow code-scanning-fixer failure in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/36207581038

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: false

Generated from Code Scanning Fixer · copilot · 12.7 AIC · ◷

• expires on Sep 26, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC