[agentic-token-audit] Daily Agentic Workflow AIC Usage Audit — 2026-09-16

### 📊 Executive Summary

- **Period**: last 24 hours (2026-09-15 to 2026-09-16)
- **Total runs**: 100
- **Total AIC**: 3452.57
- **Total Actions minutes**: 979.0 min
- **Active workflows**: 63

### 🏆 Top 5 Workflows by AIC Usage

| Workflow | Runs | Total AIC | Avg AIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Container Image Security Scan | 1 | 374.03 | 374.03 |
| Daily AW Cross-Repo Compile Check | 1 | 337.72 | 337.72 |
| ESLint Refiner | 1 | 318.27 | 318.27 |
| ESLint Miner | 1 | 273.00 | 273.00 |
| Copilot Session Insights | 1 | 272.90 | 272.90 |

### 📈 Trends



Rolling summary (last 5 days): total AIC dropped from 5,511.31 (09-10) → 4,986.12 (09-11) → **0** (09-14, anomalous — see below) → 5,009.98 (09-15) → **3,452.57 (today)**. Today's total is ~31% lower than yesterday, driven by fewer high-cost one-off workflow runs in this window compared to the prior day. The 2026-09-14 zero entry in the historical record reflects an earlier collection anomaly (likely a day with no completed runs at collection time or a metric-reporting gap) rather than a real AIC drop, and predates this run.

Full Per-Workflow Breakdown

| Workflow | Runs | Total AIC | Avg AIC | Total Turns | Avg Turns | Action Min | Errors | Warnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Container Image Security Scan | 1 | 374.03 | 374.03 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily AW Cross-Repo Compile Check | 1 | 337.72 | 337.72 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| ESLint Refiner | 1 | 318.27 | 318.27 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| ESLint Miner | 1 | 273 | 273 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| Copilot Session Insights | 1 | 272.9 | 272.9 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier | 1 | 271.45 | 271.45 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| arXiv Paper Researcher: GitHub Agentic Workflows | 1 | 195.62 | 195.62 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Instructions Janitor | 1 | 181.03 | 181.03 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| PR Sous Chef | 20 | 134.69 | 6.73 | 0 | 0 | 182 | 2 | 0 |
| daily-experiment-report | 1 | 122.91 | 122.91 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily Grader Audit | 1 | 104.88 | 104.88 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Issue Monster | 12 | 103.16 | 8.6 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily Assign Issue To User | 1 | 83.05 | 83.05 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 0 |
| Daily News | 1 | 78.8 | 78.8 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Tidy | 1 | 58.97 | 58.97 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Contribution Check | 1 | 54.23 | 54.23 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| CLI Version Checker | 1 | 53.63 | 53.63 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Code Scanning Fixer | 1 | 53.61 | 53.61 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 1 | 0 |
| Package Specification Extractor | 1 | 53.06 | 53.06 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker | 1 | 52.65 | 52.65 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily MCP Tool Concurrency Analysis | 1 | 49.92 | 49.92 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily Workflow Updater | 1 | 33.6 | 33.6 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily Syntax Error Quality Check | 1 | 31.83 | 31.83 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily Choice Type Test | 1 | 28.34 | 28.34 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily PR Code Quality Review | 1 | 26.75 | 26.75 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily Sub-Agent Model Resolution Audit | 1 | 26.41 | 26.41 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 0 |
| Multi-Device Docs Tester | 1 | 22.62 | 22.62 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Test Quality Sentinel | 1 | 14.76 | 14.76 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Daily Go Test Parallelizer | 3 | 13.69 | 4.56 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 0 |
| Avenger | 3 | 7.44 | 2.48 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily Spending Forecast | 1 | 6.03 | 6.03 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| Dependabot Dependency Checker | 1 | 5.34 | 5.34 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test | 1 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily Max Ai Credits Test | 1 | 3.39 | 3.39 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Blog Auditor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Constraint Solving — Problem of the Day | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Package Specification Enforcer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Typist - Go Type Analysis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| [aw] Failure Investigator (6h) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| Draft PR Cleanup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| GitHub API Consumption Report Agent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily Documentation Updater | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Feature Grower | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily A/B Testing Advisor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Copilot PR Conversation NLP Analysis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Glossary Maintainer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Copilot Agent Prompt Clustering Analysis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Dev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Terminal Stylist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Auto-Triage Issues | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 0 |
| Go Fan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily Evals Feature Report | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily Elixir Credo Snippet Audit | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Sub-Issue Closer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Deep Report | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| PR Triage Agent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily VulnHunter Scan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily AgentRx Trace Optimizer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| Schema Consistency Checker | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily Schema Consistency Audit | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Daily Cli Tools Tester | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Sighthound Security Scan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| Issue Arborist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |

### 💡 Observations

- **No single "heavy hitter"**: the top workflow (Daily Container Image Security Scan, 374.03 AIC) is only ~10.8% of total AIC — no workflow exceeds the 30% heavy-hitter threshold today.
- **High avg-AIC workflows (>10.00 avg AIC per run)**: several single-run, high-cost workflows exceed the threshold — Daily Container Image Security Scan (374.03), Daily AW Cross-Repo Compile Check (337.72), ESLint Refiner (318.27), ESLint Miner (273.00), Copilot Session Insights (272.90), Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier (271.45), arXiv Paper Researcher (195.62), Instructions Janitor (181.03), daily-experiment-report (122.91), Daily Grader Audit (104.88), Daily Assign Issue To User (83.05), Daily News (78.80), Tidy (58.97), Contribution Check (54.23), CLI Version Checker (53.63), Code Scanning Fixer (53.61), Package Specification Extractor (53.06), Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker (52.65), Daily MCP Tool Concurrency Analysis (49.92), Daily Workflow Updater (33.60), Daily Syntax Error Quality Check (31.83), Daily Choice Type Test (28.34), Daily PR Code Quality Review (26.75), Daily Sub-Agent Model Resolution Audit (26.41), Multi-Device Docs Tester (22.62), Test Quality Sentinel (14.76).
- **High error counts relative to runs**: `PR Sous Chef` (2 errors / 20 runs), `[aw] Failure Investigator (6h)` (2 errors / 2 runs — 100% error rate), `Daily Assign Issue To User` (2 errors / 1 run), `Sub-Issue Closer` (2 errors / 1 run), `Terminal Stylist` (2 errors / 1 run), `Auto-Triage Issues` (3 errors / 3 runs — 100% error rate). No workflow reported nonzero warnings in this window.
- **Data quality note**: 25 workflows report `total_aic = 0` despite having runs and errors recorded, suggesting AIC was not captured/reported for those specific runs — worth flagging to the optimizer for follow-up.

**Data snapshot**: `memory/token-audit/2026-09-16.json`

> Generated by [Daily Agentic Workflow AIC Usage Audit](https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/35090847955) · copilot · auto · 40.7 AIC · ⌖ 8.11 AIC · ⊞ 11.4K · [◷](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agithub%2Fgh-aw+is%3Aissue+%22gh-aw-workflow-call-id%3A+github%2Fgh-aw%2Fagentic-token-audit%22&type=issues)
> - [x] expires on Sep 19, 2026, 3:42 AM UTC-08:00

This is a generated audit rather than a scoped code change. Start with memory/token-audit/2026-09-16.json and compare the 25 zero-AIC workflows and listed error rates with the report; a contribution needs an explicit follow-up scope and completion criterion before implementation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.