Daily Firewall Report - 2025-12-07

[github-actions[bot]]

🔥 Daily Firewall Report - December 7, 2025

This report provides an analysis of firewall activity across all agentic workflows in the gh-aw repository over the past 7 days.

Executive Summary

Data Collection Status: Unable to collect detailed firewall logs from recent workflow runs due to authentication limitations in the current execution environment. The gh-aw audit and gh-aw logs commands require GitHub CLI authentication which is not available in this workflow run.

Firewall-Enabled Workflows Identified:

• artifacts-summary
• copilot-pr-nlp-analysis
• copilot-pr-prompt-analysis
• daily-news
• daily-repo-chronicle
• firewall (test workflow)
• firewall-escape
• mcp-inspector
• release
• research
• weekly-issue-summary

Total: 11 workflows currently have firewall protection enabled.

Data Collection Limitations

Technical Details

The firewall log collection process encountered the following limitations during this run:

Authentication Issue

Error running gh-aw logs: ✗ GitHub CLI authentication required. Run 'gh auth login' first

The GitHub CLI (gh) is not authenticated in the current workflow environment, which prevents:

1. Using gh-aw logs --firewall to efficiently filter firewall-enabled runs
2. Using gh-aw audit (run-id) to extract detailed firewall analysis data
3. Accessing workflow artifacts that contain firewall.log files

Attempted Solutions

• Tried using the gh-aw binary directly with --json output
• Attempted to analyze recent workflow runs (19959418792, 19925024814, etc.)
• All audit commands returned authentication errors

Next Steps for Fix

To enable full firewall reporting in future runs, the workflow needs:

1. GitHub token authentication: Add GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }} to workflow environment
2. Or use direct GitHub API calls with authentication
3. Or download and parse artifact logs manually

📋 Workflow Firewall Status

Based on configuration analysis of workflow markdown files:

Workflow Name	Firewall Enabled	Purpose
artifacts-summary	✅ Yes	Analyzes workflow artifacts
copilot-pr-nlp-analysis	✅ Yes	NLP analysis of Copilot PRs
copilot-pr-prompt-analysis	✅ Yes	Analyzes Copilot PR prompts
daily-news	✅ Yes	Collects daily tech news
daily-repo-chronicle	✅ Yes	Chronicles repository activity
firewall	✅ Yes	Firewall testing workflow
firewall-escape	✅ Yes	Tests firewall escape scenarios
mcp-inspector	✅ Yes	Inspects MCP servers
release	✅ Yes	Release automation
research	✅ Yes	Basic research agent
weekly-issue-summary	✅ Yes	Weekly issue summaries
smoke-copilot-no-firewall	❌ No	Smoke test without firewall
smoke-copilot-playwright	⚙️ Configured	Playwright testing
smoke-copilot	⚙️ Configured	General smoke testing

🛠️ Recommendations

For This Workflow

1. Add GitHub Authentication: Update .github/workflows/daily-firewall-report.lock.yml to include:

   env:
     GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}

2. Alternative Data Collection: Consider using GitHub API directly with authentication tokens instead of relying on gh CLI

3. Artifact Download: Implement direct artifact downloading and log parsing as a fallback method

For Firewall Usage

Based on the configuration analysis, the repository has good firewall coverage with 11+ workflows using network isolation. This helps:

• Prevent unauthorized external network access
• Log and audit all network requests
• Identify potentially suspicious domains
• Enforce security policies consistently

📊 Historical Data

Due to authentication limitations, historical trending data could not be generated for this report. Once authentication is resolved, future reports will include:

• 📈 Firewall request trends over time (allowed vs denied)
• 📊 Top blocked domains frequency chart
• 📉 Network activity patterns and anomalies

Next Actions

1. Fix authentication for gh-aw commands in this workflow
2. Re-run report generation with full data access
3. Establish baseline metrics for normal firewall activity
4. Set up alerts for unusual blocking patterns

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Report Generation Time: 2025-12-07 10:04 UTC
Workflow Run: §20002555657
Analysis Period: Past 7 days
Status: ⚠️ Partial data (configuration analysis only)

AI generated by Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter

[pelikhan]

/q add shared/gh-aw.md to agentic workflow to enable agentic tools

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