[lockfile-stats] Lockfile Statistics Audit — 2026-07-13

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Executive Summary

Analysis of all 257 .github/workflows/*.lock.yml files as of 2026-07-13. All files parsed cleanly with PyYAML (yaml_available: true, 0 skipped).

Metric	Value
Lockfiles	257
Total size	31.49 MB (31,490,729 B)
Avg / Median size	122.5 KB / 120.7 KB
Min / Max size	81.4 KB / 189.9 KB
Total jobs / steps / run-steps	1,612 / 30,129 / 13,609
Engines detected	copilot 64, claude 60, codex 14 (+3 singletons)

File Size Distribution

Bucket	Count
100–250 KB	248
50–100 KB	9

Lockfiles are large and tightly clustered (~120 KB), reflecting the substantial boilerplate the compiler injects. Largest: smoke-copilot-aoai-entra (185.5 KB), smoke-copilot-aoai-apikey (185.1 KB), smoke-copilot (185.0 KB). Smallest: example-permissions-warning (79.5 KB), firewall (80.4 KB), codex-github-remote-mcp-test (80.6 KB).

Trigger Analysis

Trigger	Workflows
workflow_dispatch	249
schedule	175
pull_request	35
issues	4
push / workflow_call	2 / 2

Top trigger combinations: schedule+workflow_dispatch (171), workflow_dispatch alone (44), pull_request+workflow_dispatch (28). Nearly every workflow (249/257) keeps a manual dispatch escape hatch. Schedules are well spread across the clock and use off-round minutes (fleet-friendly). Cadence mix: daily dominates, with a band of weekday-only (* * 1-5) and several */6h / */12h high-frequency jobs.

Safe Outputs Analysis

Note: noop, missing-tool, missing-data, report-incomplete, and create-report-incomplete-issue appear in ~252 files each — these are runtime-injected defaults present in nearly every lockfile, not author-configured outputs. The counts below are the meaningful, author-chosen ones.

Safe output	Workflows
create-issue	117
create-discussion	87
add-comment	67
create-pull-request	54
push-repo-memory	36
add-labels	26
upload-asset	25
create-pull-request-review-comment	15
submit-pull-request-review	15
update-issue	11
push-to-pull-request-branch	11

Discussion categories: audits 76, announcements 5, artifacts 2, dev 2, daily-news 1, research 1. The audits category is the overwhelming publish target.

Structural Characteristics

Metric	Min	Avg	Max
Jobs / workflow	4	6.27	12
Steps / workflow	79	117.2	163

Most-jobs: release (12). Most-steps: smoke-copilot (163). Across the fleet: 1,612 jobs, 30,129 steps, 13,609 run/script steps.

Permission Patterns

Scope	Read	Write
contents	257	131
actions	257	4
issues	220	250
pull-requests	226	124
discussions	50	92
copilot-requests	—	67
security-events	14	3

contents:read and actions:read are universal. issues:write (250) is the most common write scope — consistent with the issue/comment-heavy safe-output profile.

Timeout & Engine Patterns

Timeouts: 31–60 min band on every workflow (257), with 28 also carrying a short 6–15 min job and 2 with ≤5 min jobs — i.e. a short setup job plus a longer agent job.

Engines: copilot 64, claude 60, codex 14, plus antigravity/gemini/opencode singletons. A large other bucket (116) reflects a detection gap in the regex-based engine sniff rather than 116 unknown engines — see Methodology.

Tool & MCP Patterns

MCP server	Workflows
github	101
serena	24
tavily / sentry	5 / 5
grafana / markitdown	3 / 3
brave-search, ast-grep, arxiv, deepwiki, notion, datadog, microsoftdocs	2 each

github is the dominant MCP server (101); serena (code navigation) is a strong second at 24. The long tail is diverse: search (tavily/brave), observability (sentry/grafana/datadog), docs (markitdown/microsoftdocs/deepwiki), and research (arxiv).

Interesting Findings

1. Boilerplate dominates size. 248/257 lockfiles sit in the 100–250 KB band with a median of 120 KB — the author-authored surface is a small fraction of each compiled file.
2. Manual dispatch is near-universal (249/257). Almost every scheduled workflow keeps a workflow_dispatch escape hatch — a healthy operability pattern.
3. Issues are the default output channel. issues:write on 250 workflows and create-issue configured on 117 make issues the fleet's primary write surface, ahead of discussions and PRs.
4. audits is the discussion monoculture. 76 of 87 discussion-writing workflows target the audits category — this report included.
5. Off-round cron scheduling is the norm. Cron minutes are spread (e.g. 49 14, 23 11, 27 */6) rather than piling on :00, reducing fleet-wide API bursts.

Historical Trends

Day-over-day vs 2026-07-12 (same schema lockfile_stats_v1):

Metric	07-12	07-13	Δ
Lockfiles	256	257	+1
Total bytes	30.71 MB	31.49 MB	+0.79 MB (+2.6%)
Steps	30,020	30,129	+109
Run/script steps	13,561	13,609	+48
MCP github	100	101	+1

Steady incremental growth: one net-new workflow added, adding ~785 KB and ~109 steps. Engine and MCP mix are unchanged day-over-day. (Summaries older than 2026-07-10 used a different engine/MCP detection method — e.g. token-occurrence MCP counts in the thousands — so cross-method comparisons before then are not meaningful.)

Recommendations

1. Reduce the other engine bucket by extending the analyzer's engine-detection regex so the 116 unmatched files resolve to real engines — the current split understates true engine share.
2. Consider size budgets. With a 30 MB compiled footprint growing ~2–3%/day, a per-lockfile size guardrail (e.g. warn >180 KB) would catch runaway boilerplate early.
3. Audit issues:write breadth. 250 workflows hold issue-write; confirm each truly emits issue-family outputs and trim scopes where only reads are needed.
4. Spread the audits load. 76 workflows publishing to one category can bury signal — consider sub-categories or digest rollups.

Methodology

Single-script compact JSON analysis: one cached Python analyzer (lockfile_stats_v1.py) parsed all 257 lockfiles with yaml.safe_load in a single pass, emitting a ~7 KB summary JSON; all reasoning was derived from that summary (no per-file reads). Safe-output types, discussion categories, and permissions use regex/job-name detection over the compiled YAML, so the boilerplate default outputs are counted alongside author-configured ones (flagged above), and engine detection has a known other gap. History is persisted under cache-memory/history/<date>.json for trend deltas.

References: §29282982423

Warning

Firewall blocked 1 domain

The following domain was blocked by the firewall during workflow execution:

• awmgmcpg

To allow these domains, add them to the network.allowed list in your workflow frontmatter:

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "awmgmcpg"

See Network Configuration for more information.

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