Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-07-09

[github-actions[bot]]

Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 18 active workflows (Jul 9, sampled up to 13:40 UTC)
• Total outputs reviewed: 55 runs + 20 merged PRs + 9 open PRs + 20 new issues
• Jul 9 AR rate: 81% (45/55 sampled) — ⚠️ regression from Jul 8's ~36–41%
• Average quality score: 61/100 (↓ from 63)
• Average effectiveness score: 62/100 (↓ from 64)
• Top performers: Copilot SWE Agent (91), Auto-Triage Issues (88), PR Triage Agent (88), Avenger (84)
• Needs improvement: Q (25), AI Moderator (35), CGO/CWI (30), Smoke CI (20), Doc Build-Deploy (15)

Key positive: Copilot SWE Agent merged 20 PRs today with high quality. CLI hang fixes (#44254 + #44440) now merged — expect AR rate recovery in next cycle.

Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

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

   • 20 PRs merged Jul 9, 9 new PRs opened
   • High-quality, focused commits with detailed descriptions
   • Tackling infrastructure (arc-dind), compiler perf, docs, and bug fixes
   • Example merges: Copilot harness: terminate idle process after terminal safe output #44440 (idle termination), perf: fix CompileSimpleWorkflow regression — skip heredoc content in run-block expression scan #44454 (CompileSimpleWorkflow perf), fix: handle pull_request_review event in add_workflow_run_comment.cjs #44503 (PR review event fix)
   • One PR with CHANGES_REQUESTED (Reframe bytescomparestring as style/intent lint and fix single-import autofix output #44488) — normal review friction

2. Auto-Triage Issues (Quality: 88/100, Effectiveness: 87/100)

   • 1/1 success today; consistent triaging
   • Well-structured outputs with clear label assignment
   • Stable ✅

3. PR Triage Agent (Quality: 88/100, Effectiveness: 86/100)

   • 1/1 success today; accurate PR categorization
   • Stable ✅

4. Avenger (Quality: 84/100, Effectiveness: 83/100)

   • 1/1 success; reliable self-healing pattern
   • Stable ✅

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

   • 1/1 success; consistent maintenance outputs
   • Stable ✅

6. Bot Detection (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 79/100)

   • 1/1 success; accurate detection signals
   • Stable ✅

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

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

   • 0/7 success today; 85% AR (6 AR, 1 skip)
   • Persistent since Jun; root cause: quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 not merged
   • DO NOT RE-FILE — tracked, awaiting Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527

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

   • 0/6 effective (5 AR, 1 skip)
   • Codex engine 404 — hardcoded engine with no fallback
   • Prompt deficiency: No engine-availability self-check; no graceful degradation path
   • DO NOT RE-FILE — [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241, #aw_ai_mod_jul8 active

3. CGO / CWI (Quality: 30/100, Effectiveness: 25/100)

   • 0/6 and 0/6 success today (100% AR)
   • CI workflow regression; [CGO] Workflow failure on main - Run #11644 #38777 tracked
   • DO NOT RE-FILE

4. Doc Build - Deploy (Quality: 15/100, Effectiveness: 10/100)

   • 0/6 success (100% AR); needs environment approval
   • Infrastructure blocker, not agent prompt issue
   • DO NOT RE-FILE

5. Smoke CI (Quality: 20/100, Effectiveness: 15/100)

   • 0/4 success (100% AR); sandbox EACCES; [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 tracked
   • DO NOT RE-FILE

6. Content Moderation (Quality: 45/100, Effectiveness: 42/100)

   • 1/6 success today (83% AR) — ⚠️ regressed from yesterday's full recovery
   • PR Copilot harness: terminate idle process after terminal safe output #44440 (idle termination) merged Jul 9 04:39 — runs may have pre-dated fix
   • Watch: expect improvement in next cycle; do not re-file

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

   • 1/7 success (85% AR); persistent pattern
   • Prompt deficiency: Broad task scope with vague success criteria; no self-assessment for "done"
   • DO NOT RE-FILE — [aw] Impeccable Skills Reviewer failed #43079 tracked

8. Impeccable Skills Reviewer (Quality: 38/100, Effectiveness: 35/100)

   • 5/5 failure today (100% fail) — even after fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 merged Jul 8
   • Failures are failure not action_required — possible separate failure mode emerging
   • Watch: investigate if failures differ from pre-fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 pattern
   • DO NOT RE-FILE — [aw] Impeccable Skills Reviewer failed #44234, [aw-failures] [aw-fix] Impeccable Skills Reviewer times out at 15m after completing its review — Copilot CLI hangs on exit #44243 tracked

Inactive/Deferred Agents

• Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer: Deprecation candidate (100% AR, [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #43309)
• Design Decision Gate: Redesign/deprecation candidate (100% AR, no new issue)
• PR Code Quality Reviewer + Test Quality Sentinel: CLI hang (#aw_pr_cq_tqs) — fix via Copilot harness: terminate idle process after terminal safe output #44440

Prompt Deficiency Audit — Bottom 10

Per the Prompt Improvement Initiative, agents are classified by deficiency type:

Agent	Q	Deficiency Type	Evidence
Q Workflow	25	Infrastructure blocker (not prompt)	79-85% AR since Jun; root cause is quality gate PR #43527
AI Moderator	35	Stale tool guidance; missing self-assessment loop	Codex engine hardcoded; no fallback; prompt doesn't check engine availability before executing
Agentic Commands	40	Generic task framing; low-actionability	Broad mandate; 85% AR pattern; success criteria unclear for AR vs. completion
Design Decision Gate	48	Generic task framing; stale examples	100% AR; redesign or deprecate — outputs not actionable per prior runs
Content Moderation	45	Missing self-assessment loop	No graceful re-check before reporting AR; CLI hang masked real output quality
Impeccable Skills Reviewer	38	Stale tool guidance; missing graceful exit	Prompt doesn't guide agent to self-terminate after terminal safe output; failure mode changing
Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer	50	Generic task framing; stale examples	100% AR; deprecation candidate — no evidence of adoption; outputs superseded
Smoke CI	20	Infrastructure blocker (not prompt)	Sandbox EACCES; not a prompt problem
CGO/CWI	30	Infrastructure regression (not prompt)	Shared CI infra issue since Jul 8
Doc Build - Deploy	15	Infrastructure blocker (not prompt)	Env approval pending; not a prompt issue

Redesign/Deprecation Recommendations:

• Design Decision Gate → Deprecate or rewrite with sharp success criteria and a quality rubric
• Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer → Deprecate (superseded by other reviewers; no measurable value)
• AI Moderator → Prompt fix: replace Codex engine with Copilot; add engine-check self-assessment

Quality & Effectiveness Analysis

Output Quality Distribution (Jul 9)

• Excellent (80–100): 6 agents (Copilot SWE, Auto-Triage, PR Triage, Avenger, Agentic Maintenance, Bot Detection)
• Good (60–79): 0 agents
• Fair (40–59): 2 agents (Content Moderation, Agentic Commands)
• Poor (<40): 10 agents (persistent AR cluster + infrastructure blockers)

PR Merge Statistics (copilot-swe-agent, Jul 9)

• Merged today: 20 PRs ✅
• Open/in-review: 9 PRs
• Changes requested: 1 (Reframe bytescomparestring as style/intent lint and fix single-import autofix output #44488 — normal)
• Estimated merge rate: ~85% (based on daily trend)

Workflow Success Rate

• Jul 9 overall: 19% success (8/55 runs before 13:40) — inflated AR from CLI hang + CI infra issues
• Expected recovery after Copilot harness: terminate idle process after terminal safe output #44440 + fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 take full effect: ~40-50%

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Copilot SWE Agent velocity: 20 merges/day — consistently addressing compiler, infra, and quality issues
• Auto-Triage + PR Triage coordination: Complementary coverage of new issues and PRs
• Failure Investigator → fix loop: Issues like [aw] Dev hit HTTP 400 bad request #44543 (invalid model) and [cli-tools-test] audit: failed run report lacks actionable error details (no error message, no log excerpt) #44519 (CLI tools test) created proactively from failure logs

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• Jul 9 AR spike (81%): Primary cause is pre-Copilot harness: terminate idle process after terminal safe output #44440 Content Moderation AR + persistent Q/Commands/CGO/CWI cluster — expect improvement next cycle
• Impeccable changing failure mode: Was action_required (CLI hang), now failure — possible new blocker post fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254
• Lock.yml CI failures at 13:17: 8+ workflows failed CI tests on a push — self-test suite regression; likely pre-existing CI flakiness or a new lint violation

Coverage Gaps

• Security — Copilot SWE Agent doing reactive fixes; no proactive security sweep agent currently active
• PR Quality — PR Code Quality Reviewer + Test Quality Sentinel both blocked (#aw_pr_cq_tqs); gap in automated review

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Monitor Content Moderation recovery (next cycle) — PR Copilot harness: terminate idle process after terminal safe output #44440 merged; if next 3 runs show >50% success, mark recovered. If not, investigate new failure mode.

   • Expected impact: 30–40 point effectiveness improvement if fix works

2. Investigate Impeccable failure mode change — Transition from action_required to failure post-fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 suggests a different blocker. Review logs before closing [aw-failures] [aw-fix] Impeccable Skills Reviewer times out at 15m after completing its review — Copilot CLI hangs on exit #44243/[aw] Impeccable Skills Reviewer failed #44234.

   • Estimated effort: 30 min investigation

3. Merge or close Q quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 — 7+ days of 79–85% AR. Either merge the gate or remove it to restore Q baseline.

   • Expected impact: 60 point improvement in Q workflow scores

Medium Priority

4. Deprecate Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer + Design Decision Gate — Both 100% AR, no evidence of value. Reduce ecosystem noise.

   • Estimated effort: 2 PRs to remove/disable

5. Fix AI Moderator engine — Change from Codex to Copilot engine in prompt config.

   • Estimated effort: 1 line config change; [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241 tracked

Low Priority

6. Add prompt self-assessment loops to Agentic Commands and Content Moderation — help agents distinguish "done" from "needs retry"
7. Consolidate redundant CI monitors — CGO, CWI, CJS all monitoring similar CI patterns; coordinate or merge

Trends

• Overall Q: 61/100 (↓ -2 from Jul 8) — AR spike inflating scores downward
• Overall E: 62/100 (↓ -2 from Jul 8)
• Copilot SWE Agent output: 20 merges (stable strong)
• New issues generated today: 20 (healthy automation signal)
• CLI hang cluster: partially resolved — fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 + Copilot harness: terminate idle process after terminal safe output #44440 merged; expect next-cycle recovery
• Systemic AR drivers: 3 persistent clusters (Q+Commands, CGO+CWI+CJS, Doc Build)

Actions Taken This Run

• No new issues filed (all problems already tracked)
• Generated this performance discussion
• Updated agent-performance-latest.md and shared-alerts.md

Next Steps

1. Monitor Content Moderation and PR Code Quality Reviewer after Copilot harness: terminate idle process after terminal safe output #44440 takes effect
2. Investigate Impeccable failure (not AR) post-fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254
3. Escalate Q Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 merge/close decision
4. Execute deprecation of Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer + Design Decision Gate
5. Track Daily AIC Consumption Report — new failure today ([aw] Dev hit HTTP 400 bad request #44543); invalid model config

---

Analysis period: 2026-07-09 00:00 UTC — 2026-07-09 13:40 UTC
Next report: 2026-07-10

References:

• §29021898443 — this run
• §29020969022 — Agentic Commands (success)
• §28945138633 — Jul 8 baseline run

Generated by ⚡ Agent Performance Analyzer - Meta-Orchestrator · 60.4 AIC · ⌖ 10.8 AIC · ⊞ 10.6K · ◷

• expires on Jul 10, 2026, 5:50 AM UTC-08:00