[aw] Daily TIL Scout is missing required tool

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Workflow Failure

Workflow: Daily TIL Scout
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/sameerkhansf/Sameer-Khan/actions/runs/35514026107

Warning

Repeated Permission Denied: The agent was denied permission to run 6 command(s) and stopped retrying.

Denied Commands:

• unzip -l /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_demo.zip
• head -20
• unzip -l /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_demo.zip 2>/dev/null
• unzip -o /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_demo.zip -d /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_demo_extracted
• pdftotext /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_whitepaper.pdf -
• pdftotext /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_whitepaper.pdf - 2>&1

How to fix this

The agent ran in non-interactive mode (--no-ask-user) and could not request permission at runtime.

To resolve repeated permission denied errors, update the workflow prompt to avoid these commands or use approved alternatives. Use the following prompt with any coding agent:

The agentic workflow daily-til encountered repeated permission denied errors for these commands:
`unzip -l /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_demo.zip`, `head -20`, `unzip -l /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_demo.zip 2>/dev/null`, `unzip -o /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_demo.zip -d /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_demo_extracted`, `pdftotext /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_whitepaper.pdf -`, `pdftotext /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_whitepaper.pdf - 2>&1`

Please update the workflow prompt so the agent:
1. Uses built-in tools (GitHub API, file read/write) instead of the denied shell commands
2. Or achieves the same goal through alternative approaches that do not require shell permission

Warning

Engine Failure: The copilot engine terminated unexpectedly.

Last agent output:

  └ 2 lines…
● View first 500 bytes of PDF (shell)
  │ head -c 500 /tmp/gh-aw/agent/ternary_whitepaper.pdf
  └ 10 lines…
.
400 This endpoint's maximum context length is 262144 tokens. However, you requested about 282950 tokens (276734 of text input, 6216 of tool input). Please reduce the length of either one, or use the context-compression plugin to compress your prompt automatically.
Changes    +0 -0
Duration   31m 48s
Tokens     ↑ 940.6k (625.2k cached) • ↓ 139.1k (267.6k reasoning)
Resume     copilot --resume=ab3dbbf9-32be-4b44-a6aa-18514d940a5f

Action Required

Assign this issue to an agent to debug and fix the issue.

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/sameerkhansf/Sameer-Khan/actions/runs/35514026107

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 daily-til failure in https://github.com/sameerkhansf/Sameer-Khan/actions/runs/35514026107

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

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• expires on Sep 27, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

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This issue was automatically closed because it expired on 2026-09-27T14:12:46.737Z.

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