fix: prevent duplicate Test Improver monthly activity issues#681
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Pull request overview
Updates the Daily Test Improver agentic workflow instructions to reliably reuse (and only create when necessary) the monthly activity tracking issue, preventing duplicate monthly issues across repeated runs.
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- Replaces the vague Task 7 guidance with explicit, step-by-step issue discovery/update/create logic.
- Adds a concrete
gh search issuesinvocation and enumerates the decision cases for current-month vs previous-month vs no issue found.
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Description
Fix the Daily Test Improver agentic workflow to prevent it from creating duplicate monthly activity issues. The workflow's Task 7 was creating a new issue on every run instead of finding and updating the existing one, resulting in three identical issues for April 2026.
Fixes #658, #673, #679
Root cause
The original Task 7 instruction was a single vague sentence: "Search for an open issue... If it's for the current month, update it." The AI agent wasn't reliably following this, creating new issues each run instead.
Changes
.github/workflows/daily-test-improver.md— Replaced the single-line Task 7 step 1 with explicit, step-by-step instructions that:gh search issuescommand to find existing issuesDuplicate cleanup
Type of change
Testing
N/A — this is an agentic workflow instruction change, not code. The fix will be validated on the next scheduled workflow run.