Suggested test: copilot/assign-to-agent

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Motivation

Link to the gh-aw PR: github/gh-aw#40669 — fix: migrate assignAgentToIssue to REST, retain GraphQL fallbacks in lookup helpers

The assign-to-agent safe-output handler was migrated from the GraphQL replaceActorsForAssignable mutation to POST /agents/repos/{owner}/{repo}/tasks. A related fix (github/gh-aw#40716) extended ignore-if-error to also suppress agent-availability errors. Neither change has E2E coverage in gh-aw-test: there is no test-copilot-assign-to-agent.md.

Proposed test

• Workflow file: test-copilot-assign-to-agent.md
• Trigger: workflow_dispatch
• Engine: copilot
• Safe output: assign-to-agent
• Variant: standard

Minimal test prompt sketch

Have the agent create a new issue (with temporary_id: aw_agent_issue) and then call assign-to-agent referencing that issue via issue_number: '#aw_agent_issue'. Include ignore-if-error: true on the assign-to-agent config so the test passes even when the Copilot coding agent is not available in the repository, keeping the test non-flaky.

New fixtures or secrets needed

For a meaningful positive assertion the Copilot coding agent must be enabled for githubnext/gh-aw-test. With ignore-if-error: true no new fixture is strictly required (the safe output is silently skipped on unavailability), but the test then only validates that the workflow does not crash — not that assignment succeeds. Confirm whether the agent is available before deciding on config.

Notes

test-copilot-assign-to-user.md covers the assign-to-user safe output. This test covers the distinct assign-to-agent path. Eventually a claude and codex variant may be worth adding.

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