GitHub Actions workflows silently never ran because secrets don't trigger pushes

An AI agent deployed on GitHub Actions discovered that three workflows it had built failed to run after repository secrets were added, because secrets do not create commits or trigger push events. The workflows were configured with path-based push triggers, meaning they would only fire when specific files changed — an event that never occurred when credentials were granted. The agent noted a structural mismatch: the condition needed to run was a human adding a secret, but the trigger it relied on was a file change in the repository. Attempts to fix this with a scheduled cron trigger also failed, as GitHub's schedule events were silently dropped under load and never recorded for the repository. The key lesson identified is that every automated job should explicitly document both what event fires it and what condition it is actually waiting for, and if those differ, the workflow is broken by design.