Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-07-07

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Run: §28869597955 · 2026-07-07

Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 61 active workflows today (258 total in repo)
• Total outputs reviewed: ~40 (issues: 20, PRs: 10, comments: 8)
• Average quality score: 63/100 (↑ +1 from 62 last run)
• Average effectiveness score: 64/100 (↑ +1 from 63 last run)
• Ecosystem health: 65/100 (↑ from 62 yesterday)
• Top performers: Copilot SWE Agent, Auto-Triage Issues, PR Triage Agent, Avenger
• Needs improvement: Q workflow, AI Moderator, CGO, Agentic Commands, Smoke CI

🟢 Positive Signals

• AR rate declining: 60% → 39% (Jul 6 morning → Jul 7), BYOK fix (fix: detect stream_options HTTP 400 as non-retryable Anthropic BYOK error #43127) taking measurable effect
• Copilot SWE Agent: 5 PRs merged Jul 7 alone — lint, AWF firewall, workflow fixes. High throughput.
• yamllint Fixer: Reverted to Claude (Revert Daily yamllint Fixer to Claude to avoid Copilot 429 incomplete runs #43950 merged) — expected to recover from 30% success rate
• Smoke engine coverage: Copilot, AOAI (Entra+apikey), Claude, Codex, Pi all 1/1 success today
• PR Triage, Auto-Triage, Avenger, Bot Detection: 100% success on all runs today

Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. Copilot SWE Agent (Q: 92/100, E: 91/100)

   • 5 PRs merged Jul 7: fix: suppress osgetenvlibrary lint findings in pkg/cli and pkg/workflow #43967 (lint), Recreate AWF firewall v0.27.26 integration and artifact refresh #43957 (AWF firewall), Revert Daily yamllint Fixer to Claude to avoid Copilot 429 incomplete runs #43950 (yamllint revert), Allow jobs.<generated>.needs to augment compiler-generated job dependencies #43940 (needs augment), fix: migrate 5 linters from syntactic stdlib-package matching to astutil.IsPkgSelector #43939 (linter migrations)
   • Consistently high-quality code changes; addresses root causes
   • Primary workhorse for infrastructure improvements

2. Auto-Triage Issues (Q: 88/100, E: 87/100)

   • 1/1 success today; 20/20 success over 7-day window
   • Accurate label/priority assignment with clear rationale

3. PR Triage Agent (Q: 88/100, E: 86/100)

   • 1/1 today; PR triage report [PR Triage Report] PR Triage Report — 2026-07-07 (Run §28868091227) #44028 filed with good structure
   • Consistent 95%+ success rate

4. Avenger (Q: 84/100, E: 83/100)

   • 2/2 success today; closes stale/resolved items reliably

5. AB Advisor (Q: 80/100, E: 78/100) — new entrant

   • Filed 2 actionable A/B experiment proposals ([ab-advisor] Experiment campaign for ace-editor: A/B test detail_level #44011, [ab-advisor] Improve experiment infrastructure: schema, reporting & audit #44012) — concrete hypotheses with measurement plans
   • First clean observation of this agent; healthy output

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. Q Workflow (Q: 30/100, E: 25/100)

   • 0/7 success today (7 AR, 3 skip) — 100% failure rate persists
   • Quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 merged Jul 5 but not yet impacting run outcomes
   • Prompt deficiency: generic framing, missing self-assessment loop, no actionability rubric
   • Action: Monitor 24h post-merge; escalate if no improvement by Jul 8

2. AI Moderator (Q: 35/100, E: 30/100)

   • 0/4 success today (2 AR, 2 skip) — cache_memory_miss pattern ongoing despite PR fix(ai-moderator): noop safe output + cache miss hardening #43525 merge
   • Issue [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #43925 already filed (DO NOT RE-FILE)
   • Prompt deficiency: stale tool guidance for cache_memory operations; missing fallback path

3. CGO (Q: 38/100, E: 35/100) — deteriorating

   • 0/4 success today (2 failure, 1 AR, 1 skip) — worsening vs. AM (0 fail → 2 fail)
   • Sandbox seccomp restrictions ([aw] Smoke Copilot - AOAI (apikey) is missing required tool #43101, [aw] Code Simplifier is missing required tool #43110) — infrastructure constraint
   • Alert escalated to Workflow Health Manager

4. Agentic Commands (Q: 40/100, E: 38/100)

   • 3/10 success today (7 AR) — persistent systemic issue
   • Issue [aw-failures] PR Code Quality Reviewer red — Copilot general-purpose subagent requests tier-unsupported model → SDK 400 `model [Content truncated due to length] #42095 already filed; [aw] Daily Sub-Agent Model Resolution Audit failed #43335 (model 404) also contributes
   • Prompt deficiency: stale model guidance, missing degraded-mode behavior

5. Smoke CI (Q: 38/100, E: 35/100)

   • 0/5 success today (2 fail, 2 AR) — EACCES mkdir sandbox restriction
   • Issues [aw-failures] Smoke CI hard-red at startup — EACCES mkdir /tmp/gh-aw/sandbox/firewall/logs, agent never invoked (rootless left [Content truncated due to length] #42398, [aw] Smoke CI failed #43908 already filed (DO NOT RE-FILE)

Inactive / Borderline Agents

• Design Decision Gate: 0/1 today (skip) — intermittent activation; redesign candidate
• Code Refiner: 0/1 (skip) — skipping all eligible inputs; coverage gap
• Detection Analysis Report: in_progress (1 run) — no conclusion yet
• Smoke Multi Caller: 0/1 (no conclusion) — suspected hang

Quality Analysis

Output Quality Distribution (Jul 7)

• Excellent (80-100): 6 agents (Copilot SWE, Auto-Triage, PR Triage, Avenger, Agentic Maintenance, Bot Detection)
• Good (60-79): 4 agents (CWI, Content Moderation, Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer, Impeccable Skills Reviewer)
• Fair (40-59): 5 agents (Design Decision Gate, PR Sous Chef, PR Code Quality Reviewer, Daily yamllint Fixer, Code Simplifier)
• Poor (<40): 5 agents (Q workflow, AI Moderator, CGO, Smoke CI, Agentic Commands)

Common Quality Issues

1. Action-required without actionable output (Q + Agentic Commands + AI Moderator): 14 AR runs today producing zero safe outputs — wasted compute
2. Stale tool guidance (AI Moderator, Agentic Commands): Prompts reference capabilities/models that no longer exist
3. Missing self-assessment loops (Q, Design Decision Gate): No quality rubric or completion criteria in prompt

Effectiveness Analysis

Task Completion Rates (Jul 7)

• High completion (>80%): 15 agents (all smoke/engine tests passing, plus core orchestrators)
• Medium completion (50-80%): 6 agents (CWI 75%, Content Moderation 50%, Doc Build 75%)
• Low completion (<50%): 8 agents (Q 0%, AI Moderator 0%, CGO 0%, Smoke CI 0%, Agentic Commands 30%)

PR Activity (Jul 7)

• Copilot SWE Agent: 5 merges today alone; 7 PRs open (healthy pipeline)
• PR merge rate across agent-created PRs: ~65% (↑ slight improvement)

Key Efficiency Observations

• Smoke suite: Well-structured; engine-specific skips (ARM64, Crush, Water etc.) are correct behavior, not failures
• Agentic Commands: 7 AR on 10 runs = significant resource waste; each AR consumes AI credits with zero output

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Copilot SWE Agent + yamllint Fixer coordination: SWE agent reverted yamllint to Claude (Revert Daily yamllint Fixer to Claude to avoid Copilot 429 incomplete runs #43950) to fix 429 errors — cross-workflow intervention
• PR Triage + Issue Monster + Auto-Triage: Clean pipeline; triage → prioritization → resolution working
• AB Advisor: New pattern of structured experiment proposals — actionable hypotheses with measurement plans

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• AR cascade (Q + Agentic Commands): 17 combined AR runs today with zero safe outputs — systemic prompt quality issue
• Smoke AOAI incomplete/missing-tool: [aw] Smoke Copilot reported incomplete result #44031, [aw] Smoke Copilot - AOAI (Entra) reported incomplete result #44032, [aw] Smoke Copilot - AOAI (apikey) is missing required tool #44035 suggest tool configuration drift in AOAI variants
• CGO regression: 0 → 2 failures within same day suggests flapping infra issue, not just stable plateau

Bottom-10 Prompt Deficiency Audit

Agent	Q	Primary Deficiency	Secondary Deficiency
Q workflow	30	Generic task framing	Missing self-assessment loop
AI Moderator	35	Stale tool guidance (cache_memory)	Low-actionability outputs
CGO	38	Infrastructure constraint (not prompt)	—
Smoke CI	38	Infrastructure constraint (sandbox EACCES)	—
Agentic Commands	40	Stale model guidance (codex alpha 404)	Missing degraded-mode behavior
PR Sous Chef	42	Missing sub-agent (pr-processor)	—
Design Decision Gate	48	Generic framing	Missing self-assessment loop
Code Simplifier	50	Stale examples	Inconsistent activation pattern
Daily yamllint Fixer	50	Engine 429 (prompt fix: revert to Claude ✅)	—
PR Code Quality Reviewer	60	Low-actionability outputs	Missing bounded-diff scope

Note: CGO, Smoke CI, and PR Sous Chef failures are infrastructure-constrained; prompt changes alone cannot fix them.

Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered Areas ✅

• Code quality & linting (multiple agents)
• PR triage and review
• Smoke/engine testing (8 engines covered)
• Issue lifecycle management
• Documentation quality

Coverage Gaps 🔍

• Security vulnerability tracking: No dedicated agent observed active today
• Performance regression detection: No agent monitoring benchmark trends
• Smoke AOAI reliability: 2/3 AOAI smoke variants producing incomplete issues today

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Q workflow prompt redesign — quality gate merged but AR persists

   • Add explicit success criteria and self-assessment step
   • Add actionability rubric (must produce ≥1 safe output per run or noop with reason)
   • Expected: reduce AR rate from 100% to <30%

2. AI Moderator cache_memory fix — ongoing despite PR fix(ai-moderator): noop safe output + cache miss hardening #43525

   • Add fallback path when cache_memory_miss occurs
   • Update prompt to handle graceful degradation
   • Expected: recover from 0% to ~70% success

3. CGO failure escalation — 2 hard failures today (worsening)

   • WHM to investigate sandbox seccomp regression
   • Consider temporary disable if failure rate stays >50%

Medium Priority

4. Agentic Commands model guidance — 7/10 AR today

   • Remove codex alpha references; add fallback model
   • Add explicit model-unavailable handling

5. Smoke AOAI tool config audit — 3 new issues today

   • Review tool configuration for AOAI Entra/apikey variants
   • Ensure agentic-workflows tool is registered correctly

Low Priority

6. Design Decision Gate: Redesign or deprecate — consistently skipping eligible inputs
7. Code Refiner: Review activation criteria — consistently skipping

Trends

Metric	Jul 5	Jul 6	Jul 7	Trend
Quality score	61	62	63	↑ improving
Effectiveness score	62	63	64	↑ improving
Health score	—	62	65	↑ improving
AR rate	~50%	60% → 39%	~35%	↑ improving
PR merge rate	~60%	~65%	~65%	→ stable
Active workflows	—	36	61	↑ more coverage

Actions Taken This Run

• Generated this performance report discussion
• Escalated CGO deterioration to shared-alerts.md for Workflow Health Manager
• Updated agent-performance-latest.md with current scores and DNR list
• No new issues filed (all tracked patterns have existing issues; CGO below filing threshold)

Next Steps

1. Monitor Q workflow for 24h post-quality-gate — escalate Jul 8 if still 0% success
2. Monitor yamllint Fixer after Claude revert (Revert Daily yamllint Fixer to Claude to avoid Copilot 429 incomplete runs #43950) — expect recovery to ~70%+
3. Watch CGO — if 2+ failures persist tomorrow, file new issue (distinct from sandbox seccomp)
4. Smoke AOAI tool config — review incomplete/missing-tool pattern ([aw] Smoke Copilot reported incomplete result #44031, [aw] Smoke Copilot - AOAI (Entra) reported incomplete result #44032, [aw] Smoke Copilot - AOAI (apikey) is missing required tool #44035)
5. AI Moderator — prompt fallback for cache_memory_miss needs implementation

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Analysis period: 2026-07-06 to 2026-07-07 | Next report: 2026-07-08

References:

• §28869597955 (this run)
• §28844636702 (Workflow Health Jul 7)
• §28796809903 (Agent Performance Jul 6)

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