Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-03-16

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 32 active workflows
• Runs (7d): 44 completed + 1 in-progress
• Success rate: 68.2% overall | 83.3% excluding P0 lockdown failures
• Total tokens (7d): ~24.2M | Est. cost: $3.36
• Quality score: 83/100 (↓3 from 86 last week)
• Effectiveness score: 82/100 (↓4 from 86)
• Top performers: AI Moderator ✅ (RECOVERED!), Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker, Semantic Function Refactoring
• Needs attention: Smoke Copilot (context mismatch), CI Optimization Coach (PR creation failure), 2 new lockdown failures

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Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. AI Moderator — 7/7 (100%), ~10.3m avg ✅ FULL RECOVERY

   • Completely stable across all 7 days after prior intermittent issues
   • Consistent output quality and run times

2. Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker — 1/1, 3.5m, 4 turns

   • Reliable, efficient, focused scope

3. Semantic Function Refactoring — 1/1, 10.3m, 125 turns, 3.1M tokens

   • High-depth analysis (125 turns demonstrates thorough investigation)
   • Correctly completing complex refactoring work

4. Lockfile Statistics Analysis Agent — 1/1, 6.4m, 20 turns

   • Consistent quality, appropriate turn count

5. Daily Team Evolution Insights / Daily Security Red Team Agent / CLI Consistency Checker — all 1/1 ✅

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. Smoke Copilot — 0/1 (0%), Quality issue: context mismatch

   • Used create_pull_request_review_comment and reply_to_pull_request_review_comment in a scheduled (non-PR) context
   • These tools require a PR trigger; they always fail on schedule events
   • The agent completed its core task and created a discussion (copilot was here #21234) + issue (Smoke Test: Copilot - 23145445350 #21235), but 3 safe-output items failed
   • Recommendation: Remove PR review comment tools from scheduled Smoke Copilot run, or gate their use on PR event context
   • Issue created: see below

2. CI Optimization Coach — 0/1 (0%), 3.4M tokens wasted

   • Agent correctly identified fuzz corpus caching improvement and produced a high-quality PR proposal
   • PR creation (create_pull_request) failed in safe_outputs job — branch/permissions issue
   • 18.8m runtime + 3.4M tokens with no successful safe output = poor efficiency ratio
   • Recommendation: Investigate why create_pull_request is failing; check branch permissions and whether draft PR creation is supported in workflow context

3. Contribution Check — 1/2 (50%), quality issue on today's run

   • Today's run (run #23156570560) failed because agent tried to apply labels lgtm and needs-work which don't exist in this repo
   • Successfully created comments and issue [Contribution Check Report] Contribution Check Report — 2026-03-16 #21266, but label application caused safe_outputs failure
   • Recommendation: Remove non-existent labels from Contribution Check output, or use only the auto-applied cookie label

4. Issue Triage Agent — 0/1 (0%) — NEW lockdown failure

   • Now failing with GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN lockdown error (same as Issue Monster P0)
   • Was previously working; may have recently added lockdown: true config

5. Weekly Issue Summary — 0/1 (0%) — NEW lockdown failure

   • Same lockdown token issue; not previously tracked

Inactive / Lockdown-Blocked Agents 🔒

• Issue Monster: 0/8 (0%) — P0 GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN missing ([P1] Lockdown token failures: Issue Monster, PR Triage Agent, Daily Issues Report #20315), no fix path, manual escalation required
• Issue Triage Agent: NEW lockdown failure — add to P0 tracking
• Weekly Issue Summary: NEW lockdown failure — add to P0 tracking
• Super Linter Report: 0/1 — infrastructure failure (zip upload error), likely transient

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Quality Analysis

Output Quality Distribution (estimated)

• Excellent (80–100): ~18 agents
• Good (60–79): ~8 agents
• Fair (40–59): ~4 agents (CI Coach, Smoke Copilot, lockdown-blocked)
• Poor (<40): ~2 agents (Issue Monster P0)

Common Quality Issues This Week

1. Context mismatch (Smoke Copilot): Using PR-context tools in scheduled runs. 3 safe output items failed.
2. Non-existent labels (Contribution Check): Agent generating labels that don't exist in repo (lgtm, needs-work).
3. Safe-output PR creation failure (CI Optimization Coach): High-quality analysis wasted by permissions/branch issue.
4. Lockdown expansion: 2 additional workflows now failing due to missing GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN.

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Effectiveness Analysis

7-Day Run Statistics by Workflow

Workflow	Runs	Success	Failure	Token Usage	Avg Duration
AI Moderator	7	7	0	—	~10.3m
Issue Monster	8	0	8	—	~1m
Slide Deck Maintainer	1	1	0	3.55M	12.4m
CI Optimization Coach	1	0	1	3.40M	18.8m
Semantic Function Refactoring	1	1	0	3.11M	10.3m
Contribution Check	2	1	1	3.41M	~9m
Daily CLI Performance Agent	1	1	0	1.85M	13.7m
Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR	1	1	0	1.61M	14.0m
Daily Copilot PR Merged Report	1	1	0	1.08M	9.6m
Daily Testify Uber Super Expert	1	1	0	1.05M	10.4m
CLI Consistency Checker	1	1	0	0.95M	11.5m
Lockfile Statistics Analysis Agent	1	1	0	0.72M	6.4m
The Daily Repository Chronicle	1	1	0	0.74M	8.5m
Daily Safe Output Tool Optimizer	1	1	0	—	13.5m
Daily Security Red Team Agent	1	1	0	0.37M	5.5m
Repository Tree Map Generator	1	1	0	0.33M	6.6m
Daily Team Evolution Insights	1	1	0	0.33M	6.1m
Smoke Copilot	1	0	1	—	9.2m
Issue Triage Agent	1	0	1	—	23s
Weekly Issue Summary	1	0	1	—	26s
Super Linter Report	1	0	1	—	4.4m

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Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• AI Moderator stability: Full recovery after prior intermittent period — 7 consecutive successes
• High-turn depth workflows: Semantic Function Refactoring (125 turns) and Lockfile Statistics (20 turns) demonstrating thorough analysis
• Smoke tests generally healthy: Smoke Claude, Smoke Codex, Smoke Gemini, Smoke Create Cross-Repo PR, Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR all passing

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• Lockdown expansion (P0 pattern spreading): Issue Monster → now also Issue Triage Agent + Weekly Issue Summary. Risk of further expansion if other workflows add lockdown: true without the GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN secret being configured.
• Context mismatch in smoke tests: Smoke Copilot using PR-context tools in scheduled runs. Similar to the previously noted Smoke Gemini add_comment context error (also schedule-triggered). Pattern: scheduled smoke workflows attempting PR-specific operations.
• Safe-outputs PR creation failures: CI Optimization Coach's create_pull_request tool call failing. This may be a permissions issue affecting any workflow trying to create PRs programmatically.
• Label hallucination (Contribution Check): Agent inventing labels that don't exist in the repository. Should be constrained to known labels.

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Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered Areas ✅

• Daily code quality analysis (refactoring, CLI consistency, test patterns)
• Smoke testing (copilot/claude/codex/gemini engines)
• Issue and PR triage (partially blocked by lockdown)
• Security analysis (Red Team Agent)
• Documentation and reporting (Daily Chronicle, Slide Deck, etc.)

Coverage Gaps ⚠️

• Issue Triage now blocked (lockdown) — issue triage coverage degraded
• Weekly Issue Summary blocked — weekly reporting coverage degraded

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Recommendations

High Priority

1. Investigate Lockdown Expansion — Issue Triage Agent + Weekly Issue Summary are now failing with the same GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN missing error as Issue Monster. Confirm whether these were recently configured with lockdown: true and if GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN was expected to be present. Escalate alongside [P1] Lockdown token failures: Issue Monster, PR Triage Agent, Daily Issues Report #20315 for human resolution.

2. Fix Smoke Copilot context mismatch — Remove or gate create_pull_request_review_comment / reply_to_pull_request_review_comment tool calls that can only succeed in PR-triggered contexts. Issue created below.

3. Debug CI Optimization Coach PR creation — The agent produced a high-quality, well-reasoned PR (fuzz corpus caching improvement) but create_pull_request failed in safe_outputs. Root cause needs investigation — branch naming conflict, permissions, or safe-outputs PR limits.

Medium Priority

4. Fix Contribution Check label issue — Agent should not use lgtm / needs-work labels unless they exist in the repository. Add label validation or constrain to known labels (cookie, bug, enhancement, etc.).

5. Monitor Super Linter Report — One-off zip upload failure appears infrastructure-related. Monitor next run; create issue if it recurs.

Low Priority

6. Cost efficiency audit — Slide Deck Maintainer (3.55M tokens), CI Optimization Coach (3.40M tokens, failed), Semantic Refactoring (3.11M tokens) represent the highest token consumers. While Semantic Refactoring's usage is justified by its 125-turn depth, CI Coach's failed run wasted significant resources.

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Trends

Metric	This Week	Last Week	Trend
Quality score	83/100	86/100	↓3
Effectiveness score	82/100	86/100	↓4
Ecosystem health	70/100	72/100	↓2
Success rate (excl. lockdown)	83.3%	~84%	→ stable
AI Moderator	100% (7/7)	100% (4/4)	✅ confirmed
Lockdown-blocked workflows	6	4	↑ expanding
Weekly cost estimate	~$3.36	~$4.28	↓ lower

The decline in quality/effectiveness scores is primarily driven by: (1) 2 new lockdown failures expanding P0 impact, (2) Smoke Copilot context mismatch, and (3) CI Optimization Coach token waste on a failed run. Core daily analysis workflows remain healthy.

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Actions Taken This Run

• Created this performance report discussion
• Created 1 improvement issue for Smoke Copilot context mismatch (below)
• Identified Contribution Check label issue (recommendation, no separate issue — likely quick fix)
• Noted CI Optimization Coach failure pattern for investigation
• Updated shared memory with current run summary

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Analysis period: 2026-03-09 to 2026-03-16
Next report: 2026-03-23
References: §23157546499 | §23145445350 Smoke Copilot | §23146216095 CI Coach

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