github/gh-aw v0.79.8

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🌟 Release Highlights

v0.79.8 brings two new Go linters for code quality enforcement, a wave of targeted bug fixes improving reliability and portability, a performance boost for workflow run queries, and codemod improvements to complete the max-effective-tokens → max-ai-credits migration.

✨ What's New

• httpnoctx linter (#38888) — Automatically flags Go HTTP calls made without a context.Context parameter, helping catch a common source of non-cancellable requests before they reach production.
• hardcodedfilepath linter (#38742) — Detects hard-coded file path string literals in Go code, surfacing brittle path assumptions that break across environments.
• Code Simplifier budget caps (#38851) — Per-run hard budgets with graceful noop exit prevent runaway simplification loops from consuming unbounded AI credits.
• --gh-aw-ref resolved to commit SHA at compile time (#38689) — Branch and tag references passed via --gh-aw-ref are now pinned to their commit SHA during compilation, ensuring deterministic and auditable workflow builds.
• AOAI Entra smoke workflow (#38706) — New end-to-end smoke workflow validates Azure OpenAI Entra authentication for Copilot, extending CI coverage to AOAI-backed runs.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• environment: propagation fixed (#38918) — Top-level environment: blocks are now correctly propagated to the detection job, resolving a compilation gap that silently dropped environment bindings.
• set_issue_field GraphQL fix (#38882) — Corrects an invalid GraphQL query in fetchIssueFields that caused set_issue_field calls to fail at runtime.
• String-form create_issue.labels handled (#38738) — Safe-output validation and schema definitions now correctly handle labels provided as a comma-separated string in addition to arrays, fixing label assignment failures.
• False-positive AI credits failures eliminated (#38737) — Prevents erroneous failure issues from being filed on successful runs that happened to trigger unknown-model detection logic.
• Copilot supports arbitrary HOME directories (#38725) — The Copilot engine integration no longer assumes /home/runner as the home directory, improving portability for non-standard runner environments.
• Designer Drift Audit permissions fix (#38855) — Added the missing pull-requests: read scope so the Designer Drift Audit workflow can read PR data without permission errors.

⚡ Performance

• Faster workflow run queries (#38779) — listWorkflowRuns pagination now stops as soon as the 24-hour cutoff is reached rather than fetching all pages, significantly reducing API calls on active repositories.

🔧 Migration

• max-effective-tokens: -1 codemod completed (#38850) — The effective-tokens-to-ai-credits codemod (gh aw fix --write) now correctly rewrites the -1 sentinel value for max-effective-tokens, closing the last gap in the legacy budget migration. Run gh aw fix --write if you still see max-effective-tokens: -1 in your workflows.

📚 Documentation

• Updated docs covering features shipped through 2026-06-12 (#38828) including spec audits for fileutil, constants, timeutil, and tty packages (#38848).

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What's Changed

• Prevent false-positive AI credits/unknown-model failure issues on successful runs by @Copilot in #38737
• Scale homepage hero slides correctly on mobile by @Copilot in #38740
• Add hardcodedfilepath linter to detect hard-coded file path string literals by @Copilot in #38742
• fix(copilot): support arbitrary HOME directory, not just /home/runner by @Copilot in #38725
• Add AOAI Entra smoke workflow for Copilot by @Copilot in #38706
• Handle string-form create_issue.labels across safe-output validation and schema/tool definitions by @Copilot in #38738
• [community] Update community contributions in README by @github-actions[bot] in #38771
• Resolve --gh-aw-ref branch/tag to commit SHA at compile time by @dsyme in #38689
• Fix lint-go CGO failure by normalizing ResolveGhAwRef formatting and string construction by @Copilot in #38778
• [spec-enforcer] Enforce specifications for styles, syncutil, testutil by @github-actions[bot] in #38831
• [docs] Update documentation for features from 2026-06-12 by @github-actions[bot] in #38828
• [spec-extractor] Update package specifications for tty, types, typeutil, workflow by @github-actions[bot] in #38822
• optimize: stop paginating listWorkflowRuns once 24h cutoff is reached by @Copilot in #38779
• Add debug-scoped /tmp/gh-aw file inventory to setup post cleanup by @Copilot in #38780
• refactor: semantic function clustering — dedup, shared helpers, and generics consolidation by @Copilot in #38776
• deps(go): bump golang.org/x/tools to v0.46.0 by @Copilot in #38849
• Add SEC-004 transport-body exemption to artifact client by @Copilot in #38853
• docs: spec audit — add github README, update fileutil/constants/timeutil/tty specs by @Copilot in #38848
• Add missing pull-requests: read scope to Designer Drift Audit workflow by @Copilot in #38855
• [aw-compat] Migrate max-effective-tokens: -1 to max-ai-credits: -1 in codemod by @Copilot in #38850
• Add SEC-005 exemption annotation for apply_samples replay driver by @Copilot in #38852
• [dead-code] chore: remove dead functions — 1 function removed by @github-actions[bot] in #38858
• Cap Code Simplifier runaways with hard per-run budgets and graceful noop exit by @Copilot in #38851
• [jsweep] Clean validate_context_variables.cjs by @github-actions[bot] in #38785
• [linter-miner] feat(linters): add httpnoctx linter — flag HTTP calls without context by @github-actions[bot] in #38888
• ctxbackground: resolve Background() calls by package identity, not identifier text by @Copilot in #38854
• Refactor engine log parsing to canonical Copilot event format by @Copilot in #38781
• [caveman] Optimize instruction verbosity — serena-tool, skills, subagents (2026-06-12) by @github-actions[bot] in #38930
• Move auto-generated notice to first line with debugging skill URL by @Copilot in #38923
• fix: propagate top-level environment: to the detection job by @Copilot in #38918
• Correct OTLP CLI version attribution for scope/service/span fields by @Copilot in #38916
• fix(set_issue_field): fix invalid GraphQL query in fetchIssueFields by @Copilot in #38882

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