Increase smoke-claude max-turns from 2 to 10

[lpcox]

Problem

The Smoke Claude workflow frequently fails with isMaxTurnsExit=true. With only 2 turns, the agent often can't reliably call the add_comment safe output tool — it may spend a turn reading context or produce empty args, then hit the limit.

Fix

Increase max-turns from 2 to 10 to give the agent adequate headroom for the smoke test task.

Evidence

Multiple recent failures all show the same pattern:

attempt 1 failed: exitCode=1 isMaxTurnsExit=true
attempt 1: max_turns exit — not retriable via --continue

Example runs: 26409084634, 26381506302, 26405268263

[lpcox]

@copilot recompile the smoke claude workflow

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Updates the Smoke Claude Agentic Workflow configuration to reduce frequent smoke test failures caused by hitting the max-turns limit.

Changes:

• Increase engine.max-turns in .github/workflows/smoke-claude.md from 2 to 10.
• Update the compiled workflow lock file to run Claude Code with --max-turns 10 and set GH_AW_MAX_TURNS=10.
• (Unintended/risky) .github/workflows/smoke-claude.lock.yml was regenerated with a different gh-aw compiler/action version and includes many unrelated changes beyond max-turns.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
.github/workflows/smoke-claude.md	Raises the configured max-turns for the smoke workflow engine.
.github/workflows/smoke-claude.lock.yml	Updates the compiled workflow to reflect the higher max-turns, but also includes broad unrelated regeneration changes.

Copilot's findings

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• Comments generated: 2

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Smoke Test Results

GitHub MCP: ✅ Connected (PR #3779: "Increase smoke-claude max-turns from 2 to 10")
GitHub.com Connectivity: ✅ HTTP 200
File Write/Read: ❌ File not found at expected path

Status: FAIL (1/3 tests passed)

cc @lpcox (author)

📰 BREAKING: Report filed by Smoke Copilot

[github-actions]

Smoke Test Results

✅ GitHub MCP: Retrieved PR #3779 ("Increase smoke-claude max-turns from 2 to 10")
✅ GitHub.com connectivity: Pre-step verified
⚠️ File write/read: Test file not found at expected path
✅ BYOK inference: Successfully running in offline mode

Mode: BYOK offline (COPILOT_OFFLINE=true) via api-proxy → api.githubcopilot.com

Status: PASS (3/4 core tests)

PR Author: @lpcox | Merged: 2026-05-25

🔑 BYOK report filed by Smoke Copilot BYOK

[github-actions]

Smoke Codex: FAIL
PR titles: Increase smoke-claude max-turns from 2 to 10; fix: remove unused export from normalizeDockerHostPathPrefix
✅ Playwright, file write/bash, build
❌ GitHub MCP, safeinputs-gh, Tavily search, discussion query
Overall status: FAIL

Warning

Firewall blocked 1 domain

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

• registry.npmjs.org

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

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "registry.npmjs.org"

See Network Configuration for more information.

🔮 The oracle has spoken through Smoke Codex

[github-actions]

Smoke Test: Gemini Engine Validation\n\n- GitHub MCP Testing: ❌ (mcpscripts tool missing)\n- GitHub.com Connectivity: ❌ (SSL error 35)\n- File Writing Testing: ✅\n- Bash Tool Testing: ✅\n\nOverall status: FAIL

Warning

Firewall blocked 1 domain

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

• localhost

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

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "localhost"

See Network Configuration for more information.

💎 Faceted by Smoke Gemini

[github-actions]

Smoke Test: Services Connectivity

❌ Redis: Connection timeout (no PONG)
❌ PostgreSQL pg_isready: No response
❌ PostgreSQL query: Not tested (connection failed)

Result: ❌ FAIL — Unable to reach GitHub Actions services at host.docker.internal

🔌 Service connectivity validated by Smoke Services

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🏗️ Build Test Suite Results

Ecosystem	Project	Build/Install	Tests	Status
Bun	elysia	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Bun	hono	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
C++	fmt	✅	N/A	✅ PASS
C++	json	✅	N/A	✅ PASS
Deno	oak	N/A	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Deno	std	N/A	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
.NET	hello-world	✅	N/A	✅ PASS
.NET	json-parse	✅	N/A	✅ PASS
Go	color	✅	all passed	✅ PASS
Go	env	✅	all passed	✅ PASS
Go	uuid	✅	all passed	✅ PASS
Java	gson	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Java	caffeine	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Node.js	clsx	✅	all passed	✅ PASS
Node.js	execa	✅	all passed	✅ PASS
Node.js	p-limit	✅	all passed	✅ PASS
Rust	fd	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS
Rust	zoxide	✅	1/1 passed	✅ PASS

Overall: 8/8 ecosystems passed — ✅ PASS

All build and test operations completed successfully across all ecosystems.

Generated by Build Test Suite for issue #3779 · ● 11.4M · ◷