[Agentic Workflows] Update Discussion as Safe outputs

[Werner-Swart-83]

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Hello

I have configured an agentic workflow to update a discussion but I keep getting the following error:

Safe Output Handler Manager starting...
Loaded config from GH_AW_SAFE_OUTPUTS_HANDLER_CONFIG: {"missing_data":{},"missing_tool":{},"update_discussion":{"allow_body":true,"max":1,"target":"*"}}
Agent output content length: 30646
Found 1 message(s) in agent output
Loading and initializing safe output handlers based on configuration...
Update discussion configuration: max=1, target=*
✓ Loaded and initialized handler for: update_discussion
Max count: unlimited
✓ Loaded and initialized handler for: missing_tool
Max count: unlimited
✓ Loaded and initialized handler for: missing_data
Loaded 3 handler(s)
Collected 0 missing tool(s), 0 missing data item(s), and 0 noop message(s)
Processing 1 message(s) in order of appearance...
Processing message 1/1: update_discussion
Resolved target discussion #9 (target config: *)
Updating discussion #9 in {redacted} with: ["body"]
Error: Failed to update discussion #9: Request failed due to following response errors:
 - Resource not accessible by integration
Error: ✗ Message 1 (update_discussion) failed: Request failed due to following response errors:
 - Resource not accessible by integration
Stored 0 missing tool(s), 0 missing data item(s), and 0 noop message(s) for footer generation
📝 Safe output summaries written to step summary

=== Processing Summary ===
Total messages: 1
Successful: 0
Failed: 1
Temporary IDs registered: 0
Synthetic updates: 0
Warning: 1 message(s) failed to process
Error: 1 safe output(s) failed:
  - update_discussion: Request failed due to following response errors:
 - Resource not accessible by integration
Exported temporary ID map with 0 mapping(s)
Safe Output Handler Manager completed

The workflow definition is:

description: |
  Some description

on:
  discussion:
    types: [created]
  discussion_comment:
    types: [created]
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      discussion_number:
        description: Discussion number to process
        required: true
        type: number

permissions:
  contents: read
  discussions: read

network: defaults

tools:
  github:
    toolsets: [discussions]
    lockdown: false

engine: copilot

imports:
  - ../agents/custom.agent.md

safe-outputs:
  update-discussion:
    body:
    target: "*"
    max: 1
  missing-tool:
    create-issue: true
---

## Event Context

- **Discussion number**: `${{ inputs.discussion_number || github.event.discussion.number }}`
- **Discussion title**: `${{ github.event.discussion.title }}`
- **Triggering content**: `${{ needs.activation.outputs.text }}`

Do I need to use a custom PAT token to get this working?

[WattoX00]

Try to change the workflow permissions to allow write access:

permissions:
  contents: read
  discussions: write

Also your body tag is empty, I dont know if that intentional..

[Werner-Swart-83]

I manage to get this working, I had to request a PAT token that is owned by the organisation that is allowed to write to discussions on that repo. Once that got approved the workflow worked.

[WattoX00]

nice 👍