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chore(routines): daily-upstream-check cannot push results — GitHub write access blocked #85

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Routine blocker — 2026-08-14

The daily-upstream-check routine ran successfully on 2026-08-14 but cannot commit or push its results to the repository. This issue is filed per the spec's hard rule: "If the repo is in an unexpected state… open a tracking issue and exit."

What happened

The routine completed all upstream fetches and produced:

  • docs/upstream-log/state.json (new — first run, baseline versions captured)
  • docs/upstream-log/2026-08.md (new — first run log)

Both files were committed locally to branch chore/routines-daily-2026-08-14, but push failed:

  • git push via HTTPSHTTP 403 (no write token available in the remote agent environment)
  • mcp__github__push_files403 Resource not accessible by integration
  • mcp__github__create_branch403 Resource not accessible by integration

The GitHub MCP integration available to the routine does not have repository write permissions.

Fetch results (captured this run — not yet persisted)

Source Result
claude-code-cli 2.1.232 (baseline)
claude-agent-sdk (npm) 0.3.232 (baseline)
claude-agent-sdk-py (PyPI) 0.2.138 (baseline)
codex-cli (@openai/codex) 0.147.0 (baseline)
aider 0.86.2 (baseline)
goose 0.1.0 (baseline)
mcp-python 2.0.0 (baseline)
mcp-ts 1.30.0 (baseline)
cursor FAILED — EGRESS_BLOCKED
cline FAILED — EGRESS_BLOCKED
continue FAILED — EGRESS_BLOCKED
windsurf FAILED — EGRESS_BLOCKED
zed FAILED — HTTP 403 (GitHub API, unauthenticated)
mcp-spec FAILED — HTTP 403 (GitHub API, unauthenticated)
claude-plugins-official FAILED — HTTP 403 (GitHub API, unauthenticated)

No adapter PRs were opened (this was the first run — baseline only, no version deltas to evaluate).

Required fixes

  1. Grant the Claude Code remote agent write access to this repo so it can push branches and create PRs. The GitHub MCP App token needs contents: write and pull-requests: write scopes on opencircuitdev/codetalker.
  2. Allowlist the following domains in the network egress proxy so the routine can fetch from them:
    • cursor.com
    • marketplace.visualstudio.com
    • windsurf.com
  3. Provide a broader GitHub token or MCP scope (or remove zed, mcp-spec, claude-plugins-official from the spec) — the current session's GitHub MCP is scoped to opencircuitdev/codetalker only and cannot call api.github.com for other repos unauthenticated.

Auto-generated by daily-upstream-check routine.

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