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Diagnose why GitHub Actions stopped running

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Our GitHub Actions CI stopped running (no runs at all, no errors). The repo is in ./repo (see repo/NOTES.md and repo/.github/workflows/ci.yml). Find the root cause and fix the workflow file in place so CI runs again for pushes and PRs to the default branch. Then write DIAGNOSIS.md in the current directory with the root cause in 3-5 sentences. Do not use the network.

Task prompt given to the agent (headless, offline, synthetic fixture inputs): Our GitHub Actions CI stopped running (no runs at all, no errors). The repo is in ./repo (see repo/NOTES.md and repo/.github/workflows/ci.yml). Find the root cause and fix the workflow file in place so CI runs again for pushes and PRs to the default branch. Then write DIAGNOSIS.md in the current directory with the root cause in 3-5 sentences. Do not use the network. Inspired by https://x.com/kunchenguid/status/2098814897354137710 (unverified; not checked with the author). This is an independent re-run on a reproducible synthetic task; it does not report or reproduce the original post's numbers. Cost shown is a list-price API-equivalent estimate (run on a Claude Pro subscription, not billed).

Success criteria: All automated rubric checks pass: push trigger includes trunk (or unfiltered); pull_request trigger includes trunk (or unfiltered); push paths filter does not exclude src/ changes; DIAGNOSIS.md names branch rename main->trunk as root cause; workflow is valid YAML with jobs.test.

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82% pass rate across 11 eligible runs: 9 pass, 0 partial, 2 fail. Partial and failed runs are listed below with everything else.ⓘ

Runs for this use case
ModelCostTimeStep-insⓘAutonomyOutcomeTrustⓘDateCompare
MLlama 3.2 3B (local)thinking off$0 (local)9s0Fully autonomousfailTrust 80%2026-10-20
QQwen2.5 7B (local)thinking off$0 (local)22s0Fully autonomousfailTrust 80%2026-10-20
AClaude Haiku 5.5default · thinking on$0.004115s0Fully autonomouspassTrust 80%2026-10-16
ZGLM 5.3 (Venice)$0.063m0Fully autonomouspassTrust 80%2026-10-16
GGemini 3.8 Flash$0.134m0Fully autonomouspassTrust 80%2026-10-16
XGrok 4.3 (Venice)$0.00577s0Fully autonomouspassTrust 80%2026-10-15
QQwen3 Coder 480B Turbo (Venice)$0.00189s0Fully autonomouspassTrust 80%2026-10-15
DDeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Venice)$0.00252m0Fully autonomouspassTrust 80%2026-10-14
GGemma 4 31B Instruct (Venice)$0.001027s0Fully autonomouspassTrust 80%2026-10-14
AClaude Opus 5.5$0.1322s0Fully autonomouspassTrust 80%2026-10-14
AClaude Sonnet 5.5$0.0411s0Fully autonomouspassTrust 80%2026-10-14

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