[copilot-agent-analysis] Daily Copilot Agent Analysis - 2026-02-04

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🤖 Copilot Agent PR Analysis - 2026-02-04

Summary

Analysis Period: Last 24 hours
Total PRs (agent_prs_total): 52 | Merged (agent_prs_merged): 32 (67%) | Avg Duration: 49 minutes

Performance Metrics

Date	PRs	Merged	Success Rate	Avg Duration
2026-02-04	52	32	67%	49 min
2026-02-03	65	40	63%	44 min
2026-02-02	40	31	78%	32 min
2026-02-01	46	37	80%	82 min

Trend: Success rate stable at ~65-67% over last 2 days (↓ from 78-80% on Feb 1-2)

Agent Task Texts

PR #	Status	Task Text (first 100 chars)
#13655	Open	The init --codespaces command unconditionally writes devcontainer.json on every run, creating sp...
#13654	Open	Removes the changesets job from the release workflow and recompiles the lock file. ## Changes - ...
#13652	Merged	PR #13612 removed embedded template files and switched to downloading agentic-workflows.agent.md f...
#13651	Open	The changesets workflow job runs after release, which creates tags and commits. The local checko...
#13645	Merged	Updates five CLI tool and MCP server versions across the codebase. All updates contain bug fixes and...
#13619	Merged	- [ ] Update gh-aw-mcpg container image version from v0.0.94 to v0.0.98 in .lock.yml file (line 173)...
#13614	Closed	The upgrade command needed verification that it doesn't modify secrets, plus a runtime safeguard aga...
#13613	Closed	- [x] Identify all files mentioning install-gh-aw.sh script - [x] Update `/home/runner/work/gh-aw/...
#13612	Merged	## Download agent file from GitHub on demand with version-aware URL patching ### Progress: - [x] Re...
#13609	Merged	The repo-audit-analyzer workflow used {{#runtime-import agentics/repo-audit-analyzer.md}} to loa...
#13605	Merged	Bumps the gh-aw-mcpg container image from v0.0.94 to v0.0.96 in the daily multi-device docs tester w...
#13602	Merged	Doc build failing on link validation due to 3 incorrect paths referencing non-existent /guides/ lo...
#13600	Closed	Thanks for the feedback on #13596. I've created this new PR, which merges into #13596, to address yo...
#13592	Merged	The changesets workflow job was failing because changeset.js attempted to create a git tag that ...
#13589	Closed	56% of agent sessions produce no logs, making them unanalyzable. Root cause: agents complete silentl...
#13577	Merged	Test TestGitHubFolderCheckoutOptimization/custom_checkout_keeps_github_sparse failed because its e...
#13576	Open	- [x] Analyze the codebase to understand AWF command generation - [x] Identify the files to modify (...
#13573	Merged	Test failure in TestLogsCommandHelpText was checking for outdated "Campaign Orchestrator Usage" st...
#13572	Merged	Lint failures caused by formatting issues and deprecated campaign-id property in workflow frontmat...
#13570	Closed	The calling "initialize": EOF error during Playwright MCP startup is a false alarm. Playwright wor...
#13569	Merged	## Implementation Plan: Discussion-to-Issue Fallback - [x] Add FallbackToIssue field to `CreateDi...
#13566	Merged	When copilot-setup-steps.yml is imported, steps requiring repository access (Node.js cache, code b...
#13563	Merged	## Investigation Progress - [x] Analyze job logs for failing test run (job 62388074397) - [x] Ident...
#13556	Closed	The claude-code-user-docs-review workflow failed to create discussions with "Resource not accessib...
#13555	Closed	Changes the default output directory for gh aw logs from .github/aw/logs to /tmp/gh-aw/logs, ...
#13542	Merged	Chroma Issue Indexer workflow was timing out after 20 minutes. The MCP server's Docker configuration...
#13539	Merged	## Summary Fixed the DEBUG environment variable export to prevent shell globbing issues. - [x] Add...
#13538	Merged	## Complete: Add Special Support for Importing copilot-setup-steps.yml ### Summary Successfully imp...
#13535	Merged	## Problem The compiler generated a .github sparse checkout step immediately before a full reposi...
#13534	Merged	The cross-language validation test in frontmatter_hash_github_api.test.cjs had a stale expected ha...
#13533	Closed	Thanks for asking me to work on this. I will get started on it and keep this PR's description up to ...
#13532	Closed	## Review Dependabot Configuration for github/gh-aw ### Plan - [x] Investigate current Dependabot c...
#13520	Closed	The MCP server's Go-based "add" safe-input tool was invoking gh aw add as a subprocess. This refac...
#13519	Closed	## Refactor MCP-Server "Add" Tool to Call Go Function Directly ### Investigation Phase - [x] Explor...
#13518	Closed	The dispatcher template was routing campaign requests to .github/aw/agentic-campaigns.md, but `gh ...
#13517	Merged	## Problem Workflow run [21632332573](https://github.com/github/gh-aw/actions/runs/21632332573/job/...
#13516	Merged	Workflows now checkout the .github folder in the agent job using a separate sparse-checkout step w...
#13512	Closed	Workflows crashed during prompt generation with "Runtime import file not found: workflows/issue-tria...
#13507	Merged	The smoke-claude workflow failed to comment on the triggering PR because the agent used the discussi...
#13506	Closed	Thanks for asking me to work on this. I will get started on it and keep this PR's description up to ...
#13505	Merged	Gateway log debugging in printAllGatewayFiles() was indenting each line with 4 spaces and truncati...
#13504	Closed	## Task: Add GitHub Token Permission Validation for Logs/Audit Tools Adding code to validate GitHub...
#13490	Merged	Smoke test workflows have ambiguous playwright instructions that could lead agents to attempt instal...
#13489	Merged	MCP logs tool failures returned only "failed to download workflow logs" with no diagnostic context, ...
#13486	Merged	## Refactor Changeset to Changelog Workflow ### Completed: - [x] Delete `changelog-from-changesets....
#13483	Closed	## Plan: Fix changeset.js to use current tag when generating changelog entry - [x] Understand the i...
#13471	Merged	Automates conversion of .changeset/*.md files to CHANGELOG.md entries via PR. ## Implementation ...
#13469	Merged	MCP server startup logs were not visible in GitHub Actions output, making debugging server initializ...
#13466	Merged	Workflow run #21627970342 succeeded technically but triggered a functional failure alert when the ag...
#13457	Merged	The dispatch_workflow.test.cjs test was intermittently failing in CI due to strict timing expectat...
#13456	Merged	Confirmed test suite runs successfully after JavaScript refactoring changes. ## Verification Ran t...
#13454	Merged	The bots field is implemented, tested, and used in production workflows but has no documentation i...

Notable PRs

Closed Without Merge (16 PRs) ⚠️

Most closed PRs appear to be WIP tasks or exploratory work. Key examples:

• Add structured logging to fix 56% session observability gap #13589: Add structured logging (56% session observability gap) - closed without merge
• Add runtime barrier to prevent secret modifications during upgrade #13614: Add runtime barrier to prevent secret modifications - closed without merge
• docs: Support both local and restricted environments for gh-aw installation #13613: Support local and restricted environments for installation - closed without merge

Multiple PRs marked [WIP] were closed early (#13600, #13533, #13532, #13519, #13506, #13504, #13483).

Key Insights

• Success rate declined ~13% from Feb 1-2 (78-80%) to Feb 3-4 (63-67%) - primarily due to higher closure rate
• 31% of PRs (16/52) were closed without merging, suggesting increased early termination of tasks

References:

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• expires on Feb 11, 2026, 5:43 AM UTC