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ci-scheduled-workflow-health

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Generate a health report for scheduled GitHub Actions workflows in this monorepo. Use when asked about scheduled workflow health, nightly build failures, flaky CI, or workflow ownership.

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Scheduled Workflow Health Report

Generates an HTML report showing the health status of all scheduled GitHub Actions workflows in the camunda/camunda repository.

Then summarizes the concerning failing and flaky workflows by owner.

What it does

  1. Lists all workflow files from git show main:.github/workflows/
  2. Filters to those containing a schedule: trigger
  3. Extracts the # owner: comment from the first 20 lines of each YAML file
  4. Queries the GitHub API (via gh) for the last 5 scheduled runs on main
  5. Classifies each workflow:
    • failing — most recent run failed AND all checked runs failed
    • flaky — most recent run failed BUT some checked runs passed
    • ok — most recent run passed
    • no_runs / in_progress — no completed scheduled runs found
  6. Outputs scheduled-workflow-report.html with collapsible sections, owner info, and a legend

Prerequisites

  • git with access to the main branch (fetched)
  • gh CLI authenticated (gh auth status)
  • python3

How to run

python3 .claude/skills/ci-scheduled-workflow-health/scripts/scheduled-workflow-report.py

The script is at: .claude/skills/ci-scheduled-workflow-health/scripts/scheduled-workflow-report.py.

Output: scheduled-workflow-report.html in the current directory. Open with a browser.

stderr shows progress and a summary of failing/flaky workflows with their owners.

Customization

  • RUNS_TO_CHECK constant (default 5) controls how many recent runs to inspect per workflow
  • OWNER / REPO constants control the target repository
  • Owner extraction looks for # owner: <team> in the first 20 lines of each workflow YAML

Key design decisions

  • Uses git show main: instead of filesystem reads to always reflect the main branch state
  • Uses gh api (no pagination) since we only need ≤5 runs per workflow
  • Filters API calls to event=schedule&branch=main to only see scheduled runs
  • HTML report uses <details> for collapsible sections — failing/flaky are open by default