[lockfile-stats] Lockfile Statistics Report — 2026-07-04

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Executive Summary

Snapshot of 258 compiled workflow lockfiles (.github/workflows/*.lock.yml) as of 2026-07-04. 0 files were malformed or skipped.

Metric	Value
Lockfiles	258
Total size	30,708,967 bytes (~29.3 MB)
Average	119,027 bytes (~116.2 KB)
Median	117,849 bytes (~115.1 KB)
Smallest	80,112 bytes — test-workflow
Largest	181,321 bytes — smoke-copilot-aoai-entra

Lockfiles are large and tightly clustered — compilation produces a heavy, uniform baseline (~78–177 KB) per workflow, driven mostly by the embedded MCP tool surface (see Tool patterns).

File Size Distribution

Bucket	Count	Share
100–250 KB	247	95.7%
50–100 KB	11	4.3%

Largest 10

Workflow	Bytes
smoke-copilot-aoai-entra	181,321
smoke-copilot-aoai-apikey	180,912
smoke-copilot	180,800
smoke-claude	176,818
smoke-copilot-arm	167,201
smoke-codex	156,263
mcp-inspector	150,609
deep-report	148,944
issue-monster	145,825
dataflow-pr-discussion-dataset	142,724

Trigger Analysis

Trigger	Workflows
workflow_dispatch	250
schedule	173
pull_request	34
issues	4
issue_comment	2
push	2
workflow_run	1
discussion / discussion_comment / pr_review_comment	1 each

Top trigger combinations: schedule + workflow_dispatch (169), workflow_dispatch only (50), pull_request + workflow_dispatch (27). Manual dispatch is nearly universal (250/258 = 96.9%), and scheduled agents (67%) dominate the fleet.

Schedule cadence

Crons are heavily spread across minutes/hours (good — avoids thundering-herd on the API). Most common patterns are daily (M H * * *), weekday (* * 1-5), and a cluster of every-6-hour jobs (M */6 * * *). No two workflows share an identical high-frequency slot en masse.

Safe Outputs Analysis

Methodology limitation: the PyYAML module was unavailable in this run (yaml_available:false), so safe-output type extraction (which relies on structured parsing of the compiled config) returned empty and is not reported as zero. Trigger, size, engine, MCP, and structural metrics below are regex/text-derived and unaffected. This is a known gap to close by vendoring a YAML parse path into the analyzer.

Structural Characteristics

Metric	Total	Avg/wf	Min	Max
Jobs	2,071	8.03	5	13 (release)
Steps	29,736	115.3	78	156 (smoke-copilot)
Inline scripts	13,349	51.7	—	—

Every lockfile carries a large, standardized scaffold: no workflow drops below 5 jobs / 78 steps, reflecting the shared compiled runtime (setup, firewall, engine, safe-outputs collection).

Permission Patterns

Top-level permissions blocks resolved to {} for all 258 files in this schema (permissions are set per-job in compiled output; structured per-job read/write extraction was also gated by the missing YAML parser). Reported here for transparency rather than as a behavioral finding.

Timeout Distribution

Bucket (min)	Count
31–60	289
16–30	253
6–15	126
≤5	16
>60	3

(Counts exceed 258 because timeouts are counted per job/step.) The mass sits in the 16–60 min range — consistent with agentic jobs that need real headroom but are bounded well under an hour.

Tool & MCP Patterns

MCP server	References
github	5,520
playwright	126
sentry	96
grafana	28
ruflo	16
arxiv	6
deepwiki	6

The github MCP server is effectively universal; ~30 distinct github::* read tools each appear in ~120 workflows (e.g. get_pull_request, list_discussions, issue_read, list_code_scanning_alerts). This uniform, large tool manifest is the primary driver of lockfile size.

Engine distribution:

Engine	Count
copilot	159
claude	60
pi	21
codex	14
antigravity / crush / gemini / opencode	1 each

Interesting Findings

1. The fleet is remarkably uniform in size — 95.7% of lockfiles fall in a single 100–250 KB band, with min→max spanning only ~2.3×. Size is dominated by shared scaffolding, not per-workflow logic.
2. pi engine is the fastest-growing engine — from 1 workflow a month ago (2026-06-04) to 21 today, a 21× jump, while copilot (dominant) and claude stayed flat. Worth understanding what's driving pi adoption.
3. Manual + scheduled is the default shape — 169 workflows use exactly schedule + workflow_dispatch; the fleet is overwhelmingly autonomous cron agents with a manual escape hatch.
4. GitHub MCP saturation — 5,520 github-server references vs. 126 for the next server (playwright). Nearly every workflow ships the full github read toolset, even when a narrower manifest would shrink lockfiles.
5. Timeouts skew generous — 542 of 687 timeout declarations are ≥16 min; only 16 are ≤5 min, confirming these are long-running agentic jobs rather than quick checks.

Historical Trends

44 daily snapshots on record (2026-05-20 → 2026-07-04).

vs.	Date	Lockfiles	Total bytes	Avg size	Steps
Prev day	07-03	258 → 258 (0)	+9,219	+36	−1
1 week	06-27	253 → 258 (+5)	+1,042,939 (+3.5%)	+1,770	+816
1 month	06-04	240 → 258 (+18)	+5,548,925 (+22.1%)	+14,194 (+13.5%)	+4,363
First record	05-20	233 → 258 (+25)	+8,321,908 (+37.2%)	—	—

Steady growth: +25 lockfiles (+10.7%) and +37% total size since the first snapshot. Notably, average size grew +13.5% in a month — lockfiles are getting bigger, not just more numerous, suggesting the shared scaffold/tool manifest is expanding.

Recommendations

1. Trim the default MCP tool manifest. github-server tools dominate lockfile weight; scoping each workflow to the tools it actually uses would cut the ~29 MB fleet footprint and slow the +13.5%/month average-size growth.
2. Investigate pi engine growth (1→21 in a month). Confirm it's intentional and that these workflows meet the same review/security bar as copilot/claude ones.
3. Restore the YAML parse path in the analyzer so safe-output types and per-job permission read/write distributions are reported instead of gated. This is the biggest current blind spot.
4. Watch average-size drift. Set a soft budget alert if avg lockfile size crosses ~130 KB, given the sustained upward trend.

Methodology

Single-script compact JSON analysis: one cached Python analyzer (lockfile_stats_v1.py) parsed all 258 lockfiles in one pass into a ~4.8 KB summary JSON; all figures above are derived from that summary and 44 persisted daily snapshots. No lockfile was opened individually for reasoning. Note the YAML-parser gap above affects only safe-output-type and permission-value breakdowns.

References: §28718728613

Warning

Firewall blocked 1 domain

The following domain was blocked by the firewall during workflow execution:

• awmgmcpg

To allow these domains, add them to the network.allowed list in your workflow frontmatter:

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "awmgmcpg"

See Network Configuration for more information.

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