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Workflow Failure

Workflow: PR Description Updater
Branch: main
Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/30676558583

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Task Could Not Be Completed: The agent reported that the task could not be performed due to an infrastructure or tool failure.

Reasons:

• update_pull_request call limit exhausted before body update succeeded

  An initial test invocation of update_pull_request accidentally set the PR body to a placeholder value '-' while diagnosing a sandbox issue where jq/python3/node were blocked with Permission denied errors. The subsequent retry with the correct, fully synthesized PR description was rejected with 'update_pull_request limit reached — 1 of 1 already used this run'. The correct intended PR body content is preserved below for manual application if needed.

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Overview

Removes 4 unused/dead functions and their associated tests across 3 packages. All removed functions are unexported (package-private) Go identifiers with no remaining callers, so this is a non-breaking internal cleanup.

Files Changed

File	Change	Impact
pkg/cli/update_check.go	Removed checkForUpdates() wrapper that delegated to checkForUpdatesWithContext()	Internal only
pkg/cli/update_check_test.go	Removed TestCheckForUpdatesWithNoCheckUpdateFlag and TestCheckForUpdatesInCIMode (tested the deleted function)	Test cleanup
pkg/console/console.go	Removed formatTableHeaderWithTTY and formatErrorTextWithTTY internal TTY-aware formatting helpers	Internal only
pkg/console/console_formatting_test.go	Removed TestFormatTableHeaderWithTTY and TestFormatErrorTextWithTTY (tested the deleted helpers)	Test cleanup
pkg/workflow/permissions_factory.go	Removed unused NewPermissionsIssuesWriteDiscussionsWritePRWrite() factory function	Internal only

Details

• checkForUpdates was a thin wrapper around checkForUpdatesWithContext(context.Background(), ...); callers had migrated to invoking the context-aware version directly, making the wrapper dead code.
• formatTableHeaderWithTTY / formatErrorTextWithTTY were unused TTY-detection formatting helpers in the console package; no call sites remained after prior refactors.
• NewPermissionsIssuesWriteDiscussionsWritePRWrite was an unused permissions-factory constructor in pkg/workflow; no workflow compiler code referenced it.
• Corresponding unit tests for each removed function were deleted alongside the implementations.

Impact

All 5 removed symbols are lowercase (unexported) or, in the permissions factory case, exported but with zero in-repo call sites — not part of any documented public API. No behavioral change to compiled workflows or CLI commands is expected.

Commits

• 25834e71f chore: remove dead functions
• ec7d024e3 Merge branch 'main' into chore/dead-code-removal-1785510590-95ac5acdb6b3a671

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