ci: bump github/gh-aw from 0.77.5 to 0.79.9

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Bumps github/gh-aw from 0.77.5 to 0.79.9.

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v0.79.8

🌟 Release Highlights

v0.79.8 brings two new Go linters for code quality enforcement, a wave of targeted bug fixes improving reliability and portability, a performance boost for workflow run queries, and codemod improvements to complete the max-effective-tokens → max-ai-credits migration.

✨ What's New

• httpnoctx linter (#38888) — Automatically flags Go HTTP calls made without a context.Context parameter, helping catch a common source of non-cancellable requests before they reach production.
• hardcodedfilepath linter (#38742) — Detects hard-coded file path string literals in Go code, surfacing brittle path assumptions that break across environments.
• Code Simplifier budget caps (#38851) — Per-run hard budgets with graceful noop exit prevent runaway simplification loops from consuming unbounded AI credits.
• --gh-aw-ref resolved to commit SHA at compile time (#38689) — Branch and tag references passed via --gh-aw-ref are now pinned to their commit SHA during compilation, ensuring deterministic and auditable workflow builds.
• AOAI Entra smoke workflow (#38706) — New end-to-end smoke workflow validates Azure OpenAI Entra authentication for Copilot, extending CI coverage to AOAI-backed runs.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• environment: propagation fixed (#38918) — Top-level environment: blocks are now correctly propagated to the detection job, resolving a compilation gap that silently dropped environment bindings.
• set_issue_field GraphQL fix (#38882) — Corrects an invalid GraphQL query in fetchIssueFields that caused set_issue_field calls to fail at runtime.
• String-form create_issue.labels handled (#38738) — Safe-output validation and schema definitions now correctly handle labels provided as a comma-separated string in addition to arrays, fixing label assignment failures.
• False-positive AI credits failures eliminated (#38737) — Prevents erroneous failure issues from being filed on successful runs that happened to trigger unknown-model detection logic.
• Copilot supports arbitrary HOME directories (#38725) — The Copilot engine integration no longer assumes /home/runner as the home directory, improving portability for non-standard runner environments.
• Designer Drift Audit permissions fix (#38855) — Added the missing pull-requests: read scope so the Designer Drift Audit workflow can read PR data without permission errors.

⚡ Performance

• Faster workflow run queries (#38779) — listWorkflowRuns pagination now stops as soon as the 24-hour cutoff is reached rather than fetching all pages, significantly reducing API calls on active repositories.

🔧 Migration

• max-effective-tokens: -1 codemod completed (#38850) — The effective-tokens-to-ai-credits codemod (gh aw fix --write) now correctly rewrites the -1 sentinel value for max-effective-tokens, closing the last gap in the legacy budget migration. Run gh aw fix --write if you still see max-effective-tokens: -1 in your workflows.

📚 Documentation

• Updated docs covering features shipped through 2026-06-12 (#38828) including spec audits for fileutil, constants, timeutil, and tty packages (#38848).

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What's Changed

• Prevent false-positive AI credits/unknown-model failure issues on successful runs by @​Copilot in github/gh-aw#38737
• Scale homepage hero slides correctly on mobile by @​Copilot in github/gh-aw#38740
• Add hardcodedfilepath linter to detect hard-coded file path string literals by @​Copilot in github/gh-aw#38742
• fix(copilot): support arbitrary HOME directory, not just /home/runner by @​Copilot in github/gh-aw#38725
• Add AOAI Entra smoke workflow for Copilot by @​Copilot in github/gh-aw#38706
• Handle string-form create_issue.labels across safe-output validation and schema/tool definitions by @​Copilot in github/gh-aw#38738
• [community] Update community contributions in README by @​github-actions[bot] in github/gh-aw#38771
• Resolve --gh-aw-ref branch/tag to commit SHA at compile time by @​dsyme in github/gh-aw#38689
• Fix lint-go CGO failure by normalizing ResolveGhAwRef formatting and string construction by @​Copilot in github/gh-aw#38778

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Commits

• 54ad1f8 Allow cross-repo safe-outputs.dispatch-workflow allowlists (#39080)
• cbc240f docs: consolidate developer specifications into instructions file (#39082)
• 350dfb3 feat: add "Optimize token consumption" section to agent failure issues when a...
• 61344a1 Add gh-aw-node publish workflow for the safe-outputs MCP runtime (#39081)
• 7c17f17 Reduce Copilot template-injection noise by moving max-ai-credits expression t...
• 247bb74 [actions] Update GitHub Actions versions - 2026-06-13 (#39056)
• 2bee20b httpnoctx: convert 3 context-free HTTP calls to NewRequestWithContext+Do and ...
• 00fa6d3 [ab-advisor] architecture-guardian: A/B test sub_agent_strategy (sub_agents v...
• e1cc4da Make safe-outputs.add-comment discussions permission opt-in by default (#39...
• d3286d9 Refactor duplicated on.* frontmatter trigger parsing in YAML extraction (#3...
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