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- GitHub's September 7 Agentic Workflows update reclassifies policy-driven safe-output declines as 'skipped' rather than hard failures.
- The update describes v0.88.4 as a firewall/network and CI reliability release; the roundup does not claim every merged item shipped in it.
- The classification distinguishes actions intentionally blocked by policy from broken workflows; GitHub reports this itself, not an independent security audit.
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