Description
The PR Description Updater (.github/workflows/pr-description-caveman.md) fails on 2 of 20 runs (10%) over the last 7 days, and the failures are 100% correlated with signed/jsweep/* branches (unified-timeline, ai-credits-context). All 18 non-jsweep runs passed. Both failed runs were read-only (no safe outputs) but burned ~10k tokens and ~7–10 min before erroring — pure wasted spend. This is a deterministic branch-class pattern, not flake.
Fix
Add a branch exclusion to the workflow's if: condition so it skips auto-generated/signed bot branches, e.g.:
if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true && !startsWith(github.event.pull_request.head.ref, 'signed/jsweep/')
Expected Impact
Eliminates the only recurring failure in the 40-run fleet window; saves ~8 min + ~10k tokens per jsweep PR.
Suggested Agent
Copilot SWE Agent (workflow-config edit + recompile).
Estimated Effort
Quick (< 1 hour)
Data Source
DeepReport Intelligence Briefing 2026-06-29; Weekly Workflow Analysis #42229 (verified against pr-description-caveman.md on main).
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Description
The PR Description Updater (
.github/workflows/pr-description-caveman.md) fails on 2 of 20 runs (10%) over the last 7 days, and the failures are 100% correlated withsigned/jsweep/*branches (unified-timeline,ai-credits-context). All 18 non-jsweep runs passed. Both failed runs were read-only (no safe outputs) but burned ~10k tokens and ~7–10 min before erroring — pure wasted spend. This is a deterministic branch-class pattern, not flake.Fix
Add a branch exclusion to the workflow's
if:condition so it skips auto-generated/signed bot branches, e.g.:Expected Impact
Eliminates the only recurring failure in the 40-run fleet window; saves ~8 min + ~10k tokens per jsweep PR.
Suggested Agent
Copilot SWE Agent (workflow-config edit + recompile).
Estimated Effort
Quick (< 1 hour)
Data Source
DeepReport Intelligence Briefing 2026-06-29; Weekly Workflow Analysis #42229 (verified against
pr-description-caveman.mdonmain).