📰 Repository Chronicle — The Great Stabilization of Feb 23, 2026

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VOL. XVII, ISSUE 937 — MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2026 — YOUR DAILY DISPATCH FROM THE CODEBASE FRONTLINES

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🗞️ Headline News

In a morning that would make any quality-conscious engineer proud, the team at github/gh-aw launched a focused campaign to bring order out of chaos. The day's defining story: non-deterministic output is being hunted down and eliminated. At 16:05 UTC, @pelikhan's Copilot-powered charge merged PR #17909, fixing network/firewall schema description inconsistencies that had been silently misleading developers — a clean close to a morning of relentless refinement.

But the headline story of the day belongs to PR #17927, still in review: "fix: stabilize compiled lock file output ordering." Authored by Copilot at @pelikhan's direction, this PR promises to silence the noisy lock file diffs that have haunted every compile run. Supporting evidence filed alongside as PR #17925 by community contributor @davidahmann — the first human author to open a PR today without automation assistance — who added a rerun stability test contract that makes the problem impossible to deny. The codebase is getting its house in order.

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📊 Development Desk

Twenty merges have landed on main today before 16:00 UTC, touching nearly every corner of the repository. The team leveraged Copilot extensively as a force multiplier, with @pelikhan orchestrating a coordinated sweep across multiple dimensions simultaneously.

The morning opened dramatically: schema and runtime type coverage received major upgrades. PR #17911 expanded RuntimeConfig and RuntimesConfig to cover all supported runtimes, plugging gaps that had left Node, Python, Bun, Deno, and UV partially in the dark. On the semantic type front, PRs #17896 and #17897 added ArtifactName, RunCount, Minutes, and MCPServerID types, bringing the codebase one step closer to its vision of a fully type-safe, expressive domain model.

Documentation saw genuine housekeeping: @pelikhan directed Copilot to fix the capitalization of "GitHub" in a permissions error message (#17901) — the kind of precision that signals a team that cares — and simultaneously updated network.md to properly document Codex and Gemini engine support for the firewall (#17910), ensuring no new user is left wondering why their workflow won't connect.

Meanwhile, in a security-conscious move that deserves a slow clap, PR #17856 added SHA256 checksum verification to the install-gh-aw.sh curl-pipe-bash installation pattern. The curl-pipe-bash skeptics have been heard.

Full list of today's merged PRs

#	Title	Trigger
#17909	Fix network/firewall schema description and engine support inconsistencies	@pelikhan
#17935	fix: sync test assertions with capitalized "GitHub toolsets" message	@pelikhan
#17910	docs: update network.md for Codex and Gemini firewall support	@pelikhan
#17928	Normalize report formatting for cli-consistency-checker	@pelikhan
#17911	Expand RuntimeConfig and RuntimesConfig typed structs	@pelikhan
#17901	Fix "GitHub" capitalization in permissions_validation.go	@pelikhan
#17902	docs: replace stale personal blog link in quick-start	@pelikhan
#17896	Add ArtifactName, RunCount, Minutes semantic types	@pelikhan
#17897	Add MCPServerID semantic type	@pelikhan
#17861	Fix SC1003: use double quotes in awf --allow-domains	@pelikhan
#17881	Update google.golang.org/grpc to v1.79.1	@pelikhan
#17877	docs: update glossary (Lockdown Mode, AWF, Sandbox)	automated
#17856	fix: add SHA256 checksum verification to install script	@pelikhan
#17860	[specs] Update layout specification — 2026-02-23	automated
#17855	Fix SC2295: Quote variable in ci-doctor workflow	@pelikhan
#17857	fix(tests): clear GITHUB_RUN_ID/GH_AW_WORKFLOW_ID in beforeEach	@pelikhan
#17834	feat: add activation-comments to disable bot comments	@pelikhan
#17841	Add --retry 3 with delay to curl downloads	@pelikhan
#17842	feat(release): celebrate community issue authors	@pelikhan
#17840	Configure Astro Starlight i18n (English default, French first)	@pelikhan
#17836	fix: require noop when no duplication found	@pelikhan
#17837	Add Gemini author and local icons for Claude, Codex, Gemini	@pelikhan
#17835	docs: clarify CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN not supported	@pelikhan
#17830	docs: add private: frontmatter field documentation	automated
#17822	fix: web-fetch MCP server generates container format	@pelikhan
#17824	jsweep: clean close_discussion.cjs and add tests	automated

Still awaiting review: PR #17908 targets a tricky safe-outputs bug — missing operation types in hasSafeOutputType and YAML tag mismatches that could cause silent failures in production workflows. The safe-inputs/outputs system is never done.

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🔥 Issue Tracker Beat

In the predawn hours, a wave of strategic intelligence landed in the issue tracker. The DeepReport workflow filed no fewer than four issues (#17930–#17933), each a targeted recommendation: restore MCP gateway telemetry, normalize firewall log-level keys, realign the observability pipeline, and add GitHub MCP server tools to the AI Moderator. This is the automated intelligence gathering arm of the project doing what it does best — surfacing the gaps before they become crises.

The CI Failure Doctor opened issue #17936 to investigate workflow run #37508, while @davidahmann filed issue #17923 by hand — the human voice calling for compile output ordering to be stabilized, a concern that clearly resonated given that PR #17927 exists. The testify-expert agent chimed in with #17926, recommending improved test quality for pkg/cli/actionlint_test.go. The repository's self-improvement loop is running at full tilt.

A particularly delicious piece of metadata: issue #17937 is the Repository Tree Map, showing the codebase sits at 3,199 files and 247 MB — with 202 MB of that being tutorial video assets. The actual code is lean: ~38 MB across 2,985 files. The numbers don't lie.

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💻 Commit Chronicles

Thirty-one commits landed on main today, authored primarily by Copilot under @pelikhan's direction, with GitHub Actions contributing automated documentation and spec updates. The day's narrative arc is unmistakably one of consolidation: type coverage, schema consistency, script hardening, and test reliability — all the unglamorous work that keeps a high-velocity project from accumulating technical debt.

Notable in the timeline: the 07:00–08:00 UTC window saw a burst of five merges in quick succession — activation-comments, curl retry hardening, SHA256 checksums, Gemini icons, and a docs clarification — suggesting a deliberate sprint to clear a backlog before the European morning begins.

Full commit log — Today (UTC)

16:05  Fix network/firewall schema description (#17909)
16:00  fix: sync test assertions with capitalized "GitHub toolsets" (#17935)
15:42  docs: update network.md for Codex and Gemini (#17910)
15:41  Normalize report formatting (#17928)
15:19  Expand RuntimeConfig and RuntimesConfig typed structs (#17911)
12:18  Fix "GitHub" capitalization in permissions_validation.go (#17901)
12:17  Add MCPServerID semantic type (#17897)
11:42  Fix SC1003: double quotes for awf --allow-domains (#17861)
11:11  docs: update glossary with Lockdown Mode, AWF, Sandbox (#17877)
07:44  docs: update layout specification for 2026-02-23 (#17860)
07:32  fix(tests): clear GITHUB_RUN_ID/GH_AW_WORKFLOW_ID in beforeEach (#17857)
07:09  Add --retry 3 with delay to curl downloads (#17841)
07:08  feat: add activation-comments (#17834)
06:53  feat(release): celebrate community issue authors (#17842)
06:14  fix: require noop when no duplication found (#17836)
06:06  Add Gemini author and local icons for Claude/Codex/Gemini (#17837)
06:00  docs: clarify CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN not supported (#17835)
05:40  docs: add private: frontmatter field documentation (#17830)
05:28  fix: web-fetch MCP server container format (#17822)
03:36  jsweep: clean close_discussion.cjs (#17824)
... and 11 more earlier in the day

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📈 The Numbers

Today (as of 16:16 UTC)

• 🟢 30 PRs opened, 20 PRs merged, 7 PRs closed without merge
• 📝 31 commits to main from 3 unique contributors
• 🐛 15+ new issues opened (automated reports + community)
• 🔀 2 PRs still open and under active review (fix: stabilize compiled lock file output ordering #17927, Fix safe-outputs: missing op types in hasSafeOutputType, plural YAML tags, unmerged meta fields, Serena schema enum #17908)

📈 THE NUMBERS — Visualized

Issues & Pull Request Activity

The chart tells a story of a project operating in bursts. February 20–21 saw a volcanic eruption of PR activity — 79 and 101 PRs opened respectively — as the team cleared a backlog and landed major feature work. February 22 was quiet (a Sunday), and today, February 23, the team has returned with focused, targeted changes. The merge rate (20 of 30 opened today already merged) signals high review velocity.

Commit Activity & Contributors

Commit volume peaked on February 21 with 84 merges and 7 unique contributors — the week's high-water mark. What stands out is the contributor count: this repository sustains 5–9 active contributors on any given weekday, a sign of genuine team-wide engagement rather than single-developer heroics. Today's slightly lower count (3 contributors, 31 commits) reflects a Monday-morning focus session rather than full-team mobilization. The trend line bends back up.

5-Day Activity Summary

Date	PRs Opened	PRs Merged	Commits	Contributors
Feb 19	16	6	76	6
Feb 20	79	59	62	9
Feb 21	101	87	84	7
Feb 22	1	1	47	5
Feb 23	30*	20*	31*	3*

Partial day (as of 16:16 UTC)

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References:

• §22314583685 — This Chronicle's workflow run
• §37508 CI Investigation — Active CI failure being tracked
• PR #17927 — The Stabilization PR, pending review

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