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Excessive Tool Denials: The Copilot SDK hit the max tool denial guardrail and stopped the session early (2/2).
Last denied request
shell(rm -rf /tmp/x)
Last 5 tool calls
No tool calls captured
This is a structured guardrail event (guard.tool_denials_exceeded) captured in events.jsonl.
How to fix this
The prompt attempted actions outside the workflow's allowed tools.
Update the workflow prompt and/or permissions so required actions are permitted:
The workflow jsweep stopped because the Copilot SDK exceeded its tool denial threshold (2/2).
Last denied request:
shell(rm -rf /tmp/x)
Please update the workflow so the prompt only uses tools permitted by the workflow tool policy.
Action Required
Assign this issue to an agent to debug and fix the issue.
Optimize token consumption
This failure was triggered by a guardrail limit (max-tool-denials). Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.) to analyze token usage and reduce costs:
Optimize the agentic workflow token consumption using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/optimize.md
The workflow run is at https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/27489159289
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/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/27489159289
Manually invoke the agent
Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the agentic-workflows prompt.
Workflow Failure
Workflow: jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/27489159289
Warning
Excessive Tool Denials: The Copilot SDK hit the max tool denial guardrail and stopped the session early (
2/2).Last denied request
Last 5 tool calls
This is a structured guardrail event (
guard.tool_denials_exceeded) captured inevents.jsonl.How to fix this
The prompt attempted actions outside the workflow's allowed tools.
Update the workflow prompt and/or permissions so required actions are permitted:
Action Required
Assign this issue to an agent to debug and fix the issue.
Optimize token consumption
This failure was triggered by a guardrail limit (max-tool-denials). Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.) to analyze token usage and reduce costs:
Debug with any coding agent
Use this prompt with any coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.):
Manually invoke the agent
Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the
agentic-workflowsprompt.agentic-workflowsskill from.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.mdor https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.mddebug the agentic workflow jsweep failure in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/27489159289Tip
Stop reporting this workflow as a failure
To stop a workflow from creating failure issues, set
report-failure-as-issue: falsein its frontmatter: