Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-07-08

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 28 workflows (100 most-recent runs)
• Total outputs reviewed: ~30 issues created today; ~20 PRs (Copilot SWE Agent)
• Average quality score: 63/100 (↑ +1 from Jul 7)
• Average effectiveness score: 64/100 (↑ +1 from Jul 7)
• Ecosystem health: 65/100 (WHM: 63/100 today ↓ from 65)
• Top performers: Copilot SWE Agent, Auto-Triage Issues, PR Triage Agent, Content Moderation, Agentic Maintenance
• Needs improvement: Q workflow, Agentic Commands, AI Moderator, PR Code Quality Reviewer, Test Quality Sentinel

Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. Copilot SWE Agent (Quality: 92/100, Effectiveness: 91/100)

   • 11 PRs merged today; ~73% same-window merge rate (11 merged / 15 resolved)
   • Breadth of output: bug fixes, feat additions, refactors, tests, docs
   • Consistent multi-domain capability: eslint rules, AWF compiler, sandbox fixes
   • Example outputs: fix: default sink-visibility to "public" when repository visibility check fails #44286, feat(eslint): add no-github-request-interpolated-route rule #44268, fix(eslint-factory): require-fs-sync-try-catch catches destructured and aliased fs bindings #44240, feat: add lightweight workflow-edit guard for stale lock files #44238, Replace deprecated needs.activation.outputs.{text,title,body} with steps.sanitized.outputs.* #44255

2. Content Moderation (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 78/100)

   • Notable recovery: 4/8 AR earlier this week → 5/5 success today (↑)
   • Stable structured output; no false-positive community-issue escalations observed

3. Auto-Triage Issues / PR Triage Agent (Quality: 88/100, Effectiveness: 87/100)

   • Reports ([PR Triage Report] PR Triage Report — 2026-07-08 (run 28943607052) #44293, [PR Triage Report] [PR Triage] 2026-07-08 — 11 open Copilot PRs — Run §28924016278 #44236) well-structured and actioned
   • Consistent daily output, near-zero AR rate

4. Agentic Maintenance (Quality: 83/100, Effectiveness: 82/100)

   • 1/1 success today; targeted and complete output

5. Running Copilot Code Review (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 80/100)

   • 3/3 success; no AR events observed in window

6. Smoke CI (Quality: 78/100, Effectiveness: 75/100)

   • 4/4 success today; previously had EACCES failures but recovering in current window
   • Outstanding fix PR fix: reclaim root-owned sandbox firewall dirs to prevent EACCES on reused runners #44276 (reclaim root-owned dirs) under review

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. Q workflow (Quality: 25/100, Effectiveness: 15/100)

   • 19/24 AR (79%) — persistent systemic failure
   • Quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 not yet producing measurable improvement
   • 0 successful outputs in analysis window

2. Agentic Commands (Quality: 40/100, Effectiveness: 38/100)

   • 19/24 AR (79%); 3 successes all from same batch
   • Persistent pattern since early July, no trend reversal

3. AI Moderator (Quality: 35/100, Effectiveness: 30/100)

   • 5/5 skipped today; engine-level failure (Codex)
   • Recurring: issue [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #43925 was closed Jul 7 and failures immediately resumed

4. PR Code Quality Reviewer (Quality: 38/100, Effectiveness: 35/100) ⚠️ NEW

   • 1/1 AR (100%) today — no prior open issue tracked
   • Same AR pattern as Impeccable Skills Reviewer (likely CLI hang-on-exit)
   • Action: Issue filed this run ([aw] PR Code Quality Reviewer + Test Quality Sentinel — 100% AR (CLI hang-on-exit) #44298)

5. Test Quality Sentinel (Quality: 38/100, Effectiveness: 35/100) ⚠️ NEW

   • 2/2 AR (100%) today — no prior open issue tracked
   • Batched alongside PR Code Quality Reviewer — suspected shared root cause
   • Action: Issue filed this run ([aw] PR Code Quality Reviewer + Test Quality Sentinel — 100% AR (CLI hang-on-exit) #44298)

6. Design Decision Gate 🏗️ (Quality: 48/100, Effectiveness: 45/100)

   • 1/1 AR today; persistent AR pattern observed across weeks
   • Redesign-vs-deprecation candidate (see recommendations)

7. Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer (Quality: 50/100, Effectiveness: 48/100)

   • 1/1 AR today; issues [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #43309, [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #43894 open (DO NOT RE-FILE)
   • Redesign-vs-deprecation candidate

8. Impeccable Skills Reviewer (Quality: 55/100, Effectiveness: 52/100)

   • 1/1 AR today; issue [aw-failures] [aw-fix] Impeccable Skills Reviewer times out at 15m after completing its review — Copilot CLI hangs on exit #44243 open — fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 in review
   • Root cause: CLI hang on exit after completed review — expected to resolve with fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254

Stable / Skipped Agents (No Output in Window)

• Deployment Incident Monitor: 4/4 skipped (expected — no incident triggers)
• CGO: Improved — 1/5 AR (20%) today vs 100% AR reported earlier this AM (stabilizing)
• CWI: 0/3 AR (0%) today — recovered; was 2/4 AR earlier

Quality Analysis

Output Quality Distribution (estimated from run data + previous baselines)

• Excellent (80-100): 5 agents (Copilot SWE Agent, Auto-Triage, PR Triage, Content Moderation, Agentic Maintenance)
• Good (60-79): 4 agents (CWI, Bot Detection, Avenger, Running Copilot Code Review)
• Fair (40-59): 4 agents (Agentic Commands, Impeccable Skills Reviewer, Matt Pocock, Design Decision Gate)
• Poor (<40): 5 agents (Q workflow, AI Moderator, PR Code Quality Reviewer, Test Quality Sentinel, yamllint Fixer)

Common Quality Issues

1. CLI hang-on-exit (PR Code Quality Reviewer, Test Quality Sentinel, Impeccable Skills Reviewer): Agent completes review work then hangs, consuming the full 15m step timeout. Results in AR even when review output was produced. Fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 targets this.
2. Engine-level failures (AI Moderator, sub-agent codex 404): Codex engine unavailability causes skips with zero useful output.
3. Persistent quality plateau (Q workflow, Agentic Commands): 79% AR sustained for 1+ weeks; quality gate intervention (Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527) not yet measurable.

Bottom-10 Prompt Deficiency Audit

Agent	Q	Deficiency Categories
Q workflow	25	Generic task framing; stale tool guidance (engine config); missing self-assessment loop
AI Moderator	35	Stale engine guidance (Codex unavailable); no fallback engine logic
PR Code Quality Reviewer	38	Low-actionability output (AR obscures whether review completed); missing exit signal
Test Quality Sentinel	38	Low-actionability output; missing exit signal; no partial-success declaration
Agentic Commands	40	Generic task framing (79% AR suggests trigger/parsing mismatch); stale examples
yamllint Fixer	42	Stale engine preference (Claude revert merged #43950); output format ambiguous
Design Decision Gate	48	Generic framing for gate decisions; no rubric for pass/fail criteria; low human actionability
Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer	50	Stale examples; engine crash pattern; no graceful noop when no applicable PR
Impeccable Skills Reviewer	55	Hang-on-exit not self-detected; no idle-timeout in prompt; fix in PR #44254
Code Simplifier	60	6/10 success (60%); prompt may accept overly-broad scope, causing timeouts

Effectiveness Analysis

Task Completion Rates

• High completion (>80%): 8 agents (Copilot SWE Agent, Auto-Triage, PR Triage, Content Moderation, Smoke CI, Doc Build, Agentic Maintenance, Running Copilot Code Review)
• Medium completion (50-80%): 3 agents (CGO, CWI, Code Simplifier)
• Low completion (<50%): 5 agents (Q, Agentic Commands, AI Moderator, PR Code Quality Reviewer, Test Quality Sentinel)

PR Merge Statistics (Copilot SWE Agent today)

• Merged: 11 PRs out of 15 resolved (73%)
• Open (pending review): 8 PRs
• Closed unmerged: 4 (3 dep bumps + 1 visibility-cache approach)
• PR velocity: high — multiple domains in a single day

Time to Completion

• Copilot SWE Agent: typically <3h from issue-open to merge
• Utility workflows (docs, instructions): <2h
• Review workflows: blocked by CLI hang (effectively 15m wasted)

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Copilot SWE Agent rapid iteration: Opened, revised, and merged fixes across multiple independent PRs on the same day — efficient multi-domain coverage
• Failure Investigator → Copilot SWE Agent pipeline: Investigator filed [aw-failures] [aw-fix] Impeccable Skills Reviewer times out at 15m after completing its review — Copilot CLI hangs on exit #44243 → Copilot opened fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 same day — healthy issue-to-PR latency
• Content Moderation recovery: Self-corrected after mixed performance earlier this week, 5/5 success today

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• Review agent CLI hang cluster (Impeccable, PR Code Quality Reviewer, Test Quality Sentinel, Matt Pocock): All 100% AR on PRs opened today. Likely the same post-completion hang as [aw-failures] [aw-fix] Impeccable Skills Reviewer times out at 15m after completing its review — Copilot CLI hangs on exit #44243. Fix in PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 is critical.
• Q workflow persistent AR (79%): Quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 not yet producing signal — escalating duration makes it a systemic risk.
• Agentic Commands persistent AR (79%): Probable trigger-parsing or permissions issue. Different root cause from Q but same duration of persistence.
• AI Moderator recurring crash: Issue [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #43925 was closed, failures resumed immediately Jul 8. Pattern indicates underlying Codex engine unavailability requires an engine change (not just issue-filing).

Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered Areas ✅

• PR lifecycle (triage, review, sous-chef nudges)
• Dependency management (GitHub Actions versions, Go modules, safe patch deps)
• Documentation (glossary, instructions sync, spec-extractor)
• CI workflow health (CGO, CWI, CJS monitoring)

Coverage Gaps 🔍

• Model alias resolution: Issue Model alias not resolved to correct model for Github Copilot CLI #44260 (community) — no dedicated agent monitoring model alias correctness
• ARC/DinD runner support: Issues MCP gateway can't reach the Docker daemon on split-daemon topologies (ARC/DinD, DOCKER_HOST=tcp://): socket-GID resolution assumes a local /var/run/docker.sock #44251, Threat-detection job silently no-ops on arc-dind runners: Copilot binary not staged into the chroot (spawn /usr/local/bin/copilot ENOENT) #44249 (community) — agent coverage missing for split-daemon topology
• Sandbox EACCES recovery: Multiple issues; Smoke CI fix PR fix: reclaim root-owned sandbox firewall dirs to prevent EACCES on reused runners #44276 open but no preventive monitoring agent

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Fix CLI hang-on-exit for PR review cluster (PR Code Quality Reviewer, Test Quality Sentinel, Impeccable, Matt Pocock)

   • PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 is the direct fix — expedite merge
   • Add --idle-timeout or inactivity watchdog to all review agent prompts as a short-term mitigation
   • Expected impact: Recover ~12 AR runs/day → success; unblock actionable review feedback
   • Filed: [aw] PR Code Quality Reviewer + Test Quality Sentinel — 100% AR (CLI hang-on-exit) #44298 (this run)

2. Change AI Moderator engine away from Codex

   • Issue fix: switch AI Moderator engine from codex to copilot #44207 (CLOSED as duplicate/fixed) → problem recurred Jul 8 ([aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241)
   • Prompt fix needed: default to copilot engine, add explicit fallback directive
   • Expected impact: Eliminate 100% skip rate → estimated 70%+ success

3. Escalate Q workflow + Agentic Commands plateau

   • Both at 79% AR for 7+ days; quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 not yet merged
   • Recommend: merge Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 urgently; add explicit trigger-validation to both prompts
   • Expected impact: -30 to -40 percentage points in AR rate

Medium Priority

4. Redesign or deprecate Design Decision Gate 🏗️

   • 100% AR, no clear success criteria in prompt, no human-actionable output
   • Deficiency: generic framing + no pass/fail rubric
   • Recommendation: Reframe as a checklist-emitting agent with explicit decision criteria, or deprecate if coverage is redundant with PR Code Quality Reviewer

5. Deprecate Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer

   • 100% AR, issues [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #43309, [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #43894 open with no resolution path
   • Content audience (Matt Pocock TypeScript patterns) is narrow and low-signal for most PRs
   • Recommendation: Deprecate; absorb relevant checks into Impeccable Skills Reviewer prompt

6. Q workflow prompt overhaul

   • Current prompt: generic task framing, no self-assessment, stale engine guidance
   • Add: explicit success/failure declaration step, engine fallback logic, reduced scope per run

Low Priority

7. Monitor CGO/CWI/CJS correlation — all three CI workflows went AR together on Jul 8 AM; WHM investigating [CGO] Workflow failure on main - Run #11644 #38777
8. Track yamllint Fixer after Claude revert (Revert Daily yamllint Fixer to Claude to avoid Copilot 429 incomplete runs #43950 merged) — expected improvement in 30% success rate
9. Code Simplifier (60% success) — scope-narrowing prompt change could push to 80%+

Trends

• Overall agent quality: 63/100 (↑ +1 from Jul 7, +1 from Jul 6 — slow plateau)
• Average effectiveness: 64/100 (↑ +1 from Jul 7)
• Ecosystem health: 63/100 (↓ -2 from yesterday — review agent AR cluster)
• Copilot SWE Agent PR merge rate: ~73% (stable)
• Review agent success rate: 0% (4 workflows, 100% AR) — regression from prior week
• Content Moderation: recovered to 100% today (↑ from 50% earlier this week)

Actions Taken This Run

• Filed 1 improvement issue for PR Code Quality Reviewer + Test Quality Sentinel (new 100% AR cluster, [aw] PR Code Quality Reviewer + Test Quality Sentinel — 100% AR (CLI hang-on-exit) #44298)
• Generated this performance report discussion
• Updated agent-performance-latest.md memory
• Added coordination notes to shared-alerts.md

Next Steps

1. Merge fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 (Copilot CLI idle hang) — unblocks 4 review agents immediately
2. Merge quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 for Q workflow — break 79% AR plateau
3. Change AI Moderator engine from Codex to copilot (prompt fix)
4. Evaluate Design Decision Gate for redesign vs deprecation
5. Evaluate Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer for deprecation
6. Monitor CGO regression after WHM escalation

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Analysis period: 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-08 | Window: last 100 workflow runs
Previous report: §28869597955
Next report: 2026-07-09

References:

• §28945138633 — current run
• §28869597955 — previous performance report
• §28919919125 — WHM Jul 8

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