Problem

The Failure Investigator (6h) workflow — the repository's primary automated failure-detection meta-monitor — is itself hitting the max-ai-credits: 1000 guardrail and failing, creating a detection blind spot every day it runs out of budget.

Run: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/27333772586
Failure issue: #38559
AIC used: ~1,025 (over by 25.1)

This is Day 3+ of the AI credits cluster pattern. The Failure Investigator is now the 6th confirmed member of the analysis-heavy-workflow cluster (previous members tracked in #38520).

Impact

• When the Failure Investigator fails, ~6h of agentic workflow failures go uninvestigated
• Failure clusters (like the Gemini router P0 in [aw-failures] [fix] Gemini router selects unpriced TTS model (gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview) -> Smoke Gemini 400 unknown_model_ai_credits #38558) may be delayed or missed entirely
• The meta-monitoring reliability gap undermines the entire ecosystem health feedback loop

Root Cause

The Failure Investigator analyzes 6h of failure data. As the number of agentic workflows grows, its analysis scope (and therefore AIC consumption) increases. It is consistently hitting 1,000 AIC on busy days.

Fix

Raise max-ai-credits in .github/workflows/aw-failure-investigator.md frontmatter:

max-ai-credits: 2000

This is consistent with the fix recommended for the broader AI credits cluster.

Related

• AI credits cluster original tracker: [ai-credits-cluster] AI Credits Exhaustion Cluster — 2026-06-11: 4 workflows failing #38520 (closed — needs a new tracker for expanded 6-workflow cluster)
• Individual failure issues: [aw] Code Simplifier failed #38499 (Code Simplifier), [aw] Ubuntu Actions Image Analyzer failed #38500 (Ubuntu Analyzer), [aw] Workflow Skill Extractor failed #38501 (Workflow Skill Extractor), [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #38497 (Matt Pocock), [aw] Package Specification Extractor failed #38576 (Package Specification Extractor)
• Ecosystem-wide recommendation: raise max-ai-credits to 2000 for all analysis-heavy workflows (Code Simplifier, Ubuntu Analyzer, Workflow Skill Extractor, Matt Pocock, Package Specification Extractor, Failure Investigator)

Acceptance Criteria

• max-ai-credits: 2000 set in aw-failure-investigator.md
• Failure Investigator completes successfully for 3 consecutive days
• Daily failure cluster reports produced without interruption

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• expires on Jun 13, 2026, 6:12 AM UTC-08:00