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gh aw logs was failing with a misleading auth error even for authenticated users. Two root causes: path is not a valid gh run list --json field (gh CLI rejects it with exit code 1), and the error classifier then misidentified that as an authentication failure.

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  • Remove path from gh run list --json fieldspath has never been in gh CLI's RunFields. Simplified unmarshal from a helper struct back to direct []WorkflowRun decode.

  • Case-insensitive invalid-field detection — gh emits Unknown JSON field: "path" (capital U, with "JSON" between "unknown" and "field"). Old checks used strings.Contains on lowercase "unknown field", which never matched. Now uses strings.ToLower + adds "unknown json field" / "unknown json" patterns.

  • Remove exit status 1 from auth heuristic — gh exits 1 for many non-auth errors. This caused the invalid-field error to fall through to the auth path, producing the misleading ✗ GitHub CLI authentication required message.

  • Remove WorkflowPath-based .lock.yml filter in health_command.go — this filter relied on WorkflowPath being populated from path. When workflowName is unset, listWorkflowRunsWithPagination already filters to agentic workflows via getAgenticWorkflowNames; when it's set, the caller's intent is trusted.

  • Update tests — replaced TestWorkflowRunPathFieldUnmarshal and TestFetchWorkflowRunsLockYMLFilter (both tested removed behavior) with TestWorkflowRunUnmarshal and a comprehensive TestListWorkflowRunsErrorHandling table covering the capital-U gh output, exit status 1 non-auth case, and legitimate auth signals.

  • Add CI integration test — new health-smoke-copilot job in ci.yml builds the binary, runs ./gh-aw health smoke-copilot --json, and validates the workflow_name, total_runs, and success_rate fields are present in the output.


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@copilot add ci.yml integration test that runs health on smoke-copilot

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@copilot add ci.yml integration test that runs health on smoke-copilot

Added a health-smoke-copilot job to ci.yml in 73de7a2. It builds the binary, runs ./gh-aw health smoke-copilot --json, and validates the workflow_name, total_runs, and success_rate fields are present in the JSON output.

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Pull request overview

Fixes gh aw logs failing with a misleading authentication error by removing an unsupported gh run list --json field and tightening error classification.

Changes:

  • Removed invalid path from gh run list --json and simplified unmarshaling to []WorkflowRun.
  • Made invalid-field detection case-insensitive and updated patterns to match gh CLI’s actual error text.
  • Updated health workflow-run accumulation logic and added a CI smoke test for gh-aw health ... --json output shape.

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File Description
pkg/cli/logs_github_api.go Removes unsupported path JSON field and fixes invalid-field vs auth error classification.
pkg/cli/logs_github_api_test.go Replaces tests tied to removed behavior and adds a table for error-classification scenarios.
pkg/cli/health_command.go Removes .lock.yml-suffix filtering and always accumulates runs while computing duration.
.github/workflows/ci.yml Adds health-smoke-copilot CI job validating required JSON fields in health output.

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Comment thread pkg/cli/health_command.go
allRuns = append(allRuns, run)
}

healthLog.Printf("Fetched batch %d: got %d runs, total agentic runs so far: %d", i+1, len(runs), len(allRuns))

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The log message still says "total agentic runs so far", but this loop now appends all runs (the .lock.yml/agentic suffix filter was removed). This makes the log output misleading and can confuse debugging. Update the message to reflect the new behavior (e.g., "total runs so far") or reintroduce an explicit agentic-only count if that’s what you intend to report.

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healthLog.Printf("Fetched batch %d: got %d runs, total agentic runs so far: %d", i+1, len(runs), len(allRuns))
healthLog.Printf("Fetched batch %d: got %d runs, total runs so far: %d", i+1, len(runs), len(allRuns))

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// TestListWorkflowRunsErrorHandling verifies the error classification logic in
// listWorkflowRunsWithPagination. In particular it checks that:
// - "Unknown JSON field" (capital U, as emitted by gh CLI) is treated as an
// invalid-field error, not an auth error (case-insensitive matching).
// - Exit code 1 alone does NOT trigger the auth-failure path because gh exits
// with code 1 for many non-auth errors (e.g. unsupported JSON fields).
func TestListWorkflowRunsErrorHandling(t *testing.T) {
tests := []struct {
name string
errMsg string
outputMsg string
wantInvalidField bool
wantAuth bool
}{
{
DatabaseID: 1,
WorkflowName: "Agentic Workflow",
WorkflowPath: ".github/workflows/agentic-workflow.lock.yml",
StartedAt: time.Date(2026, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC),
UpdatedAt: time.Date(2026, 1, 1, 0, 5, 0, 0, time.UTC),
name: "unknown JSON field (capital U, as gh CLI emits)",
errMsg: "exit status 1",
outputMsg: `Unknown JSON field: "path"`,
wantInvalidField: true,
wantAuth: false,
},
{
DatabaseID: 2,
WorkflowName: "Regular CI",
WorkflowPath: ".github/workflows/ci.yml",
name: "unknown field lowercase",
errMsg: "exit status 1",
outputMsg: "unknown field foo",
wantInvalidField: true,
wantAuth: false,
},
{
DatabaseID: 3,
WorkflowName: "Another Agentic",
WorkflowPath: ".github/workflows/another.lock.yml",
StartedAt: time.Date(2026, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC),
UpdatedAt: time.Date(2026, 1, 2, 0, 3, 0, 0, time.UTC),
name: "invalid field mixed case",
errMsg: "exit status 1",
outputMsg: "Invalid field: bar",
wantInvalidField: true,
wantAuth: false,
},
{
// Run with empty WorkflowPath — must be excluded (mimics the pre-fix state
// where "path" was absent from the JSON query).
DatabaseID: 4,
WorkflowName: "Agentic But No Path",
WorkflowPath: "",
name: "exit status 1 alone is NOT an auth error",
errMsg: "exit status 1",
outputMsg: "some other error",
wantAuth: false,
},
{
name: "exit status 4 IS an auth error",
errMsg: "exit status 4",
outputMsg: "",
wantAuth: true,
},
{
name: "gh auth login hint is an auth error",
errMsg: "exit status 1",
outputMsg: "To get started, run: gh auth login",
wantAuth: true,
},
{
name: "not logged in message is an auth error",
errMsg: "exit status 1",
outputMsg: "not logged into any GitHub hosts",
wantAuth: true,
},
}

var filtered []WorkflowRun
for _, run := range runs {
if strings.HasSuffix(run.WorkflowPath, ".lock.yml") {
if run.Duration == 0 && !run.StartedAt.IsZero() && !run.UpdatedAt.IsZero() {
run.Duration = run.UpdatedAt.Sub(run.StartedAt)
}
filtered = append(filtered, run)
}
}

require.Len(t, filtered, 2, "only .lock.yml runs should pass the filter")
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
combinedMsg := tt.errMsg + " " + tt.outputMsg
combinedMsgLower := strings.ToLower(combinedMsg)

assert.Equal(t, int64(1), filtered[0].DatabaseID)
assert.Equal(t, 5*time.Minute, filtered[0].Duration, "duration should be calculated from StartedAt/UpdatedAt")
isInvalidField := strings.Contains(combinedMsgLower, "invalid field") ||
strings.Contains(combinedMsgLower, "unknown field") ||
strings.Contains(combinedMsgLower, "unknown json field") ||
strings.Contains(combinedMsgLower, "unknown json") ||
strings.Contains(combinedMsgLower, "field not found") ||
strings.Contains(combinedMsgLower, "no such field")
isAuth := !isInvalidField && (strings.Contains(combinedMsg, "exit status 4") ||
strings.Contains(combinedMsg, "not logged into any GitHub hosts") ||
strings.Contains(combinedMsg, "To use GitHub CLI in a GitHub Actions workflow") ||
strings.Contains(combinedMsg, "authentication required") ||
strings.Contains(tt.outputMsg, "gh auth login"))

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This test claims to verify the error classification logic in listWorkflowRunsWithPagination, but it doesn’t exercise that function (or any shared helper) and instead re-implements the classification checks inline. That means the test can still pass even if the production logic diverges. Consider extracting the classification into a small helper (e.g., taking err/output strings and returning an enum), then call that helper from both listWorkflowRunsWithPagination and this test.

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@copilot fix health https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/23008468800/job/66824977051

Fixed in cec8e2e. The health command was passing the raw workflow ID (smoke-copilot) directly to gh run list --workflow, but gh CLI expects the GitHub Actions display name (Smoke Copilot). Added workflow.FindWorkflowName resolution to RunHealth, matching the same pattern the logs command uses.

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gh aw logs requests unsupported path JSON field from gh run list, then misclassifies the error as an authentication failure

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