missing_terminal_safe_output
Agent finished without emitting a terminal safe output; task completion could not be confirmed.
bash: safeoutputs --help | sed -n '1,200p': {"message":"Permission denied and could not request permission from user. Copilot needed the user's approval and no one could answer. This is not an OS or sandbox error.","code":"denied"}
bash: command -v safeoutputs || true; safeoutputs noop '{"message":"No open Dependabot manifest PRs were selected in context.json, so no remediation was needed."}': {"message":"Permission denied and could not request permission from user. Copilot needed the user's approval and no one could answer. This is not an OS or sandbox error.","code":"denied"}
bash: cat > /tmp/gh-aw/agent/dependabot-burner/results/37894822205-result.json <<'EOF'
{
"pr_numbers": [],
"dependencies_processed": [],
"source_files_updated": [],
"fix_applied": false,
"replacement_pr_created": false,
"retry_strategy": "no-op; no open Dependabot manifest PRs were selected",
"maintainer_feedback_used": "none",
"status": "unchanged",
"validation_commands": [
"Read /tmp/gh-aw/agent/dependabot-burner/context.json",
"Read .github/aw/dependabot.md",
"Attempted safeoutputs noop"
],
"notes": "The wave had no selected Dependabot PRs, so there was nothing to remediate or regenerate."
}
EOF
jq . /tmp/gh-aw/agent/dependabot-burner/results/37894822205-result.json: {"message":"Permission denied and could not request permission from user. Copilot needed the user's approval and no one could answer. This is not an OS or sandbox error.","code":"denied"}
bash: ls -R /tmp/gh-aw/agent/dependabot-burner | sed -n '1,200p': {"message":"Permission denied and could not request permission from user. Copilot needed the user's approval and no one could answer. This is not an OS or sandbox error.","code":"denied"}
bash: mkdir -p /tmp/gh-aw/agent/dependabot-burner/results && cat > /tmp/gh-aw/agent/dependabot-burner/results/37894822205-result.json <<'EOF'
{
"pr_numbers": [],
"dependencies_processed": [],
"source_files_updated": [],
"fix_applied": false,
"replacement_pr_created": false,
"retry_strategy": "no-op; no open Dependabot manifest PRs were selected",
"maintainer_feedback_used": "none",
"status": "unchanged",
"validation_commands": [
"Read /tmp/gh-aw/agent/dependabot-burner/context.json",
"Read .github/aw/dependabot.md"
],
"notes": "The wave had no selected Dependabot PRs, so there was nothing to remediate or regenerate."
}
EOF
jq . /tmp/gh-aw/agent/dependabot-burner/results/37894822205-result.json: {"message":"Permission denied and could not request permission from user. Copilot needed the user's approval and no one could answer. This is not an OS or sandbox error.","code":"denied"}
Driver exit code: 0
Failure classification: prompt_exhaustion
Retry attempts observed: 0
Workflow Failure
Workflow: Dependabot Burner
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/37894822205
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