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[aw] AW Optimization / AGENTS.md hit shell expansion guard rejection

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Description

### Workflow Failure

**Workflow:** [AW Optimization / AGENTS.md](https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw-cao/blob/main/.github/workflows/optimization-agents-md-curator.md)
**Branch:** main
**Run:** https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw-cao/actions/runs/34508569675

> [!WARNING]
> **Shell Expansion Guard Rejected Command**: The sandbox rejected a shell command because expansion patterns looked unsafe.

This signal was detected from engine runtime logs and is usually caused by retrying a multi-line shell command that embeds safe-output JSON or Markdown directly in the command text.

How to remediate

- Do **not** retry the identical rejected command.
- Put multi-line content in a temporary file with a single-quoted heredoc.
- Use `jq -Rs` to JSON-escape the file contents before piping to `safeoutputs`.

```bash
cat <<'EOF' > /tmp/gh-aw/body.md
Title

Multi-line body content goes here.
EOF
jq -Rs '{title: "My title", body: .}' /tmp/gh-aw/body.md | safeoutputs create_discussion .
```

### Action Required

**Assign this issue to an agent** to debug and fix the issue.

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/githubnext/gh-aw-cao/actions/runs/34508569675
````

Manually invoke the agent

Debug this workflow failure using your favorite Agent CLI and the `agentic-workflows` prompt.

- Start your agent
- Load the `agentic-workflows` skill from `.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md` or
- Type `debug the agentic workflow optimization-agents-md-curator failure in https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw-cao/actions/runs/34508569675`

> [!TIP]
>
> Stop reporting this workflow as a failure
>
> To stop a workflow from creating failure issues, set `report-failure-as-issue: false` in its frontmatter:
> ```yaml
> safe-outputs:
> report-failure-as-issue: false
> ```
>
>

> Generated from [AW Optimization / AGENTS.md](https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw-cao/actions/runs/34508569675) · copilot · 280 AIC · [◷](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agithubnext%2Fgh-aw-cao+is%3Aissue+%22gh-aw-workflow-id%3A+optimization-agents-md-curator%22&type=issues)
> - [x] expires on Sep 17, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with the failed run linked in the issue and read .github/workflows/optimization-agents-md-curator.md to understand the workflow. Consult debug.md and .github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md for the debugging process, then verify that the workflow no longer triggers the shell expansion guard and completes successfully.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
github-actions, shell
Domain
ci-cd, devops
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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