[aw-failures] Failure Report 2026-05-07 (6h window ~13:18–19:18 UTC): Documentation Unbloat Exit-Code-7 + Auto-Triage No-Safe-Output #30892

Executive Summary

Two failure clusters identified in the 6-hour lookback window (2026-05-07 ~13:18–19:18 UTC). One is a P1 agent crash in Documentation Unbloat (exit code 7, 0 turns). The other is a P2 compliance miss in Auto-Triage Issues (agent succeeded but skipped the required noop call). No P0 infrastructure failures detected; the 15 other runs all succeeded or were correctly skipped.

Failure Clusters

Cluster A — Documentation Unbloat: Exit Code 7, Agent Never Started (P1)

Run: §25510316635 · 2026-05-07T17:01:42Z · conclusion: failure

Pattern: The Claude Code agent job ran the full pre-agent setup (Astro docs build succeeded, Playwright installed, dev server started in background with nohup npm run dev --host 0.0.0.0 --port 4321) — then the claude process exited with exit code 7 after 0 turns, approximately 2 seconds after the OTEL trace context was emitted. The safe_outputs and detection jobs were skipped.

Exit code 7 in Claude Code = report_incomplete — the agent determined it could not complete the task at initialization time, before any turns were processed.

Root cause hypothesis: The docs dev server was started via nohup but the agent immediately called report_incomplete — suggesting the pre-flight check (checking for docs/src/content/docs directory and editable markdown files) likely passed, but an early initialization error (possibly the agent receiving a non-200 response from the docs-server-lifecycle shared step, or the Astro build artifacts not being accessible via localhost:4321 at agent launch time) triggered the report_incomplete signal.

Subsequent runs: All 5 subsequent unbloat-docs runs are skipped because issue #30868 (auto-created on failure) now satisfies the skip-if-match: is:pr is:open is:draft label:doc-unbloat condition — this is not the intended trigger; this skip condition is for open Copilot draft PRs, not failure alert issues. The workflow may now be permanently blocked until #30868 is closed or the label condition is resolved.

2026-05-07T17:03:52.2911445Z ##[error]Process completed with exit code 7.

Cluster B — Auto-Triage Issues: No Safe-Output Call (P2)

Run: §25516212977 · 2026-05-07T19:03:22Z · conclusion: success

Pattern: The agent completed 3 turns successfully but never called any safeoutputs tool — not even noop. The safe_outputs job was skipped, triggering the automated failure alert #30890.

Context from run history (last 5 runs):

Note: None of the recent runs have safe_items > 0, but only run 25516212977 triggered a failure alert. This suggests the failure detection threshold may vary.

Root cause: The agent triaged issues and determined no action was needed, but omitted the required noop call.

Existing Issue Correlation

Proposed Fix Roadmap

Sub-Issues Created

• Sub-issue for Documentation Unbloat P1 fix (linked below)

References:

• §25510316635 (Documentation Unbloat failure)
• §25516212977 (Auto-Triage no-safe-output)
• §25516906282 (this investigator run)

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• expires on May 14, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC