gh-aw 0.30.5

🌟 Release Highlights

This release brings significant architectural improvements that make gh-aw more reliable and maintainable! We've focused on refactoring internal systems, enhancing the MCP server, and fixing critical bugs in safe outputs.

✨ What's New

• Built-in Serena MCP Support: Added native language service integration for improved code intelligence and Go configuration options, making it easier to work with advanced language features.

• Enhanced skip-if-match Flexibility: The skip-if-match frontmatter field now supports an object format with a max threshold parameter, allowing you to express conditions like "skip if 3 PRs match this request" instead of just 1. Learn more

  # Before: implicitly max = 1
  skip-if-match: "is:pr label:bug"
  
  # Now: control the threshold
  skip-if-match:
    query: "is:pr label:bug"
    max: 3  # skip if 3+ matching PRs exist

🔧 Internal Improvements & Refactoring

• Patch Generation Moved to MCP Server: Git patch generation has been refactored from a dedicated workflow step into the safe-outputs MCP server. This provides immediate error feedback when no changes exist, rather than discovering it later in processing jobs—making debugging much faster!

• Safe Output Validation Consolidation: Centralized configuration defaults and eliminated ~120 lines of duplicated validation code by extracting shared helpers. This improves maintainability and reduces the risk of inconsistencies across safe output handlers.

• MCP Server Utility Extraction: Refactored the monolithic safe_outputs_mcp_server.cjs by extracting 7 utility functions into separate, well-tested modules with automatic bundling. Added 50 comprehensive unit tests and detailed size logging for better observability.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed App-Token Step Ordering: Resolved a critical issue where safe output jobs using GitHub App authentication referenced the app token before it was generated. Six affected job builders now correctly use buildSafeOutputJob to ensure proper step ordering.

• Clarified update_release Tag Requirement: Updated MCP tool descriptions and workflow documentation to make it crystal clear that the tag field is required and cannot be automatically inferred when workflows are triggered manually via workflow_dispatch.

📚 Documentation

All reference documentation has been updated to reflect the new skip-if-match object format and improved safe output patterns.

🙏 Contributors

Special thanks to the Copilot coding agent for the high-quality automated contributions that made this release possible!

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For a complete list of changes, see the full changelog.

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What's Changed

• Fix update_release tag requirement clarity in MCP tool and workflow by @Copilot in #4553
• Fix app-token step ordering in safe output jobs by @Copilot in #4550
• [log] Add debug logging to CLI and workflow packages by @github-actions[bot] in #4555
• Add object format to skip-if-match with max threshold parameter by @Copilot in #4547
• Add close-issue safe output for automated issue cleanup by @Copilot in #4554
• Update Dependabot workflow: change title prefix to [deps] and add automatic issue cleanup by @Copilot in #4560
• Add compilation process reference documentation by @Copilot in #4563
• Add add-reviewer safe output for automated PR reviewer management by @Copilot in #4564
• Update CLI versions: Claude Code 2.0.50, Codex 0.63.0 by @Copilot in #4567
• Add mermaid rendering to Astro with Playwright validation by @Copilot in #4566
• [docs] docs: reduce bloat in compilation-process.md (78% reduction) by @github-actions[bot] in #4573
• Refactor patch generation from workflow step to MCP server by @Copilot in #4570
• Refactor duplicate JSON/JSONL parsing logic into shared utility by @Copilot in #4574
• Extract duplicate safe-output validation logic into shared helpers by @Copilot in #4575
• Add close-pull-request safe output with filtering by @Copilot in #4568
• [docs] Update documentation for new safe output types from Nov 22-23 by @github-actions[bot] in #4583
• [instructions] Sync github-agentic-workflows.instructions.md with v0.30.4 by @github-actions[bot] in #4587
• [log] Add debug logging to CLI components by @github-actions[bot] in #4592
• [docs] Update dictation prompt instructions by @github-actions[bot] in #4582
• [tidy] Update documentation: Add close-pull-request safe output documentation by @github-actions[bot] in #4594
• Refactor safe output validation: centralize config defaults and eliminate hardcoded values from MCP server scripts by @Copilot in #4576
• [cloclo] Refactor: Extract shared helper for parsing participants (assignees/reviewers) by @github-actions[bot] in #4604
• Allow command triggers with label-only issues/PR events by @Copilot in #4602
• Add daily malicious code scan workflow with code-scanning alerts by @Copilot in #4612
• [tidy] Fix trailing whitespace in JavaScript files by @github-actions[bot] in #4611
• Add built-in Serena MCP support with language service integration and Go configuration options by @Copilot in #4610
• Fix PR branch checkout step failing with missing GH_TOKEN by @Copilot in #4609
• Remove shared Serena workflow, use tools: serena frontmatter instead by @Copilot in #4613
• Disable threat detection on daily malicious code scan workflow by @Copilot in #4617
• Add github.workspace to GitHub context prompt by @Copilot in #4618
• Remove bloat from CLI commands documentation by @Copilot in #4620
• Refactor safe_outputs_mcp_server.cjs: Extract utility functions with bundling and size logging by @Copilot in #4601
• Update create-issue and create-discussion tool descriptions to clarify title/body relationship by @Copilot in #4622

Full Changelog: v0.30.4...v0.30.5