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[deep-report] Investigate Daily Community Attribution Updater runaway: 159 turns, 8.7M tokens, 35.6% firewall blocks #29338

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The Daily Community Attribution Updater consumed 8.7M tokens in a single run on 2026-04-30 (April 30) — the highest token consumer in the fleet — with 159 turns (vs. the next highest at 77 turns), a 100% error rate, and a 35.6% firewall block rate (88/247 requests blocked). This represents ~12% of the daily Copilot budget in a single run.

The 159-turn count (vs. typical 10–40 for similar workflows) suggests a runaway or looping condition without an effective stop criterion. The high firewall block rate may indicate the workflow is making unexpected outbound requests.

Expected Impact

Fixing the runaway behavior could save 6–8M tokens per run (70–90% reduction), recovering ~10% of daily Copilot budget. Resolving the firewall blocks would also improve the error rate.

Suggested Agent

Copilot Token Usage Optimizer or new diagnostic agent. Review the workflow's stop conditions, turn budget, and outbound network request patterns.

Estimated Effort

Medium (1–4 hours): requires log inspection to identify the loop root cause, then a targeted fix to the workflow prompt or configuration.

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Generated by DeepReport - Intelligence Gathering Agent · ● 573.9K ·

  • expires on May 2, 2026, 3:37 PM UTC

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