[cli-tools-test] audit MCP request times out after 60 seconds without partial results or recovery guidance #66029

Problem Description

A recent-run audit request through the agentic-workflows MCP interface terminated after 60.0 seconds with context deadline exceeded. It returned no audit report, partial results, or actionable recovery guidance. This blocks the logs-to-audit investigation flow.

Command/Tool

• Tool: audit
• MCP arguments: {"run_id":"37415703249","max_tokens":3000}
• CLI transport: agenticworkflows audit '{"run_id":"37415703249","max_tokens":3000}'

Steps to Reproduce

1. In the configured agentic-workflows MCP environment for github/gh-aw, request logs with {"engine":"copilot","start_date":"-7d","count":3,"max_tokens":3000}.
2. Observe the returned continuation cursor containing before_run_id: 37415703249.
3. Call audit with the arguments above. The run identifier is a cursor value, not independently verified as one of the three downloaded runs.
4. Observe the request timing out without an audit payload.

Expected Behavior

The audit should complete, or return an actionable timeout response explaining the incomplete analysis and any supported recovery. A caller should be able to distinguish a run-specific data problem from a request deadline.

Actual Behavior

The tool returned only Error [0]: context deadline exceeded after 60,011 ms (60,041 ms total bridge time). No partial report was returned.

A separate audit of §37418345812 completed in 58.1 seconds and included in-progress metadata, job timelines, tool metrics, MCP health, and network analysis. Both observations exceed this exploratory test's 30-second audit target, but do not establish a general latency regression.

Environment

• Repository: github/gh-aw
• Testing run: §37418327052
• Date: 2026-10-06 UTC
• gh-aw version: Not supplied by status; no direct gh aw invocation was used.

Impact

• Severity: Medium
• Frequency: Observed once; not retried. Reproducibility and root cause remain unconfirmed.
• Workaround: None validated.

Logs/Diagnostics

MCP tools/call: status=200, elapsed=60011ms
Tool call complete: total=60041ms
Error [0]: context deadline exceeded
Tool call error: Error [0]: context deadline exceeded

Additional Context

Issue duplicate searches were attempted through the GitHub read tool, but results were removed by integrity policy. Existing duplicates could not be assessed. Please check for an existing timeout issue before triage.

Next step: investigate deadline/error propagation for this audit request using approved diagnostics, preserving configured limits.

References:

• Testing run §37418327052
• Audit target §37415703249
• Completed audit target §37418345812

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