Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-03-22

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 9 key agents + ecosystem overview (177 total workflows)
• Quality score: 82/100 (→ stable)
• Effectiveness score: 74/100 (→ stable)
• Ecosystem health: 69/100 (↓5 from 74 — stale lock files)
• 🎉 Key news: Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier RECOVERING after 43+ failures | Contribution Check improved 67%→90%
• ❌ Persistent P1: Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR still 0% success (7+ days)

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Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. Issue Monster (Quality: 92/100, Effectiveness: 95/100)

   • 100% schedule success (30/30 runs)
   • Consistently produces actionable issue outputs with zero errors

2. Contribution Check (Quality: 88/100, Effectiveness: 85/100)

   • Improved to 90% success (9/10 this week) — up from 67% previous benchmark
   • 13 safe items created in 7 days
   • One edge-case overlong run (62 turns, Mar 21 09:03)

3. Workflow Health Manager (Quality: 85/100, Effectiveness: 80/100)

   • 5/6 schedule success (83%), 10 safe items
   • Mar 22 run had 1 error but still produced outputs

4. Agent Performance Analyzer (Quality: 84/100, Effectiveness: 72/100)

   • 100% schedule success (6/6), consistent 15–20 min runtime
   • Push-branch failures are expected (branch CI gate)

5. Semantic Function Refactoring (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 75/100)

   • 5/6 schedule success (83%), powered by Claude
   • ~$1.22/week token cost (2M tokens/run) — monitor trajectory
   • 7 safe items (code improvement PRs)

6. The Great Escapi (Quality: 78/100, Effectiveness: 68/100)

   • 5/6 schedule success (83%), tight firewall (api.githubcopilot.com only)
   • Consistently uses noop — working as designed (escalates only when needed)

Agents Under Monitoring 📊

7. Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier (Quality: 55/100, Effectiveness: 45/100)

   • Status: RECOVERING 🎉 — Mar 22 schedule SUCCESS, Mar 21 manual dispatch SUCCESS
   • Was P1 (43+ consecutive schedule failures, activation exit code 1)
   • Needs 3–5 more days of monitoring to confirm full recovery

8. AI Moderator (Quality: 65/100, Effectiveness: 60/100)

   • action_required on closed PRs — confirmed expected behavior (not a bug)
   • Success rate stable; no new issues

Persistent P1 ❌

9. Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR (Quality: 10/100, Effectiveness: 5/100)
   • 0/6 schedule failures, 7+ days — no recovery signals
   • Issue [#aw_sxrpr1] already filed
   • Companion create workflow healthy (83%) → label resolution or PR state mismatch

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Quality Analysis

Quality Distribution

Grade	Score Range	Agents
Excellent	80–100	Issue Monster, Contribution Check, Workflow Health Manager, Agent Performance Analyzer, Semantic Function Refactoring
Good	60–79	The Great Escapi, AI Moderator
Fair	40–59	Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier (recovering)
Poor	<40	Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR

Common Quality Issues

1. Activation failures (Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier): Structural config on scheduled triggers; manual dispatch always works
2. Label/state mismatch (Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR): Create path healthy, update path consistently fails — suggests PR lifecycle issue
3. Overlong reasoning runs (Contribution Check, 62 turns): Edge-case PRs may trigger excessive analysis depth

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Ecosystem Health

Metric	Previous	Current	Trend
Quality	82	82	→ stable
Effectiveness	74	74	→ stable
Health	74	69	↓5

Health decline driven by 20 stale lock files (appeared Mar 21–22). Needs make recompile.

Engine Distribution: Copilot: 118 | Claude: 40 | Codex: 18 | Gemini: 1

Recoveries This Week 🎉

• PR Triage Agent: Fully recovered (9 consecutive successes after 21-run outage)
• Issue Triage Agent: Recovered (15+ day outage resolved Mar 20)
• Smoke Gemini: Holding recovery (3+ consecutive successes)
• Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier: Recovering (2 consecutive successes after 43+ failures)

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Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Meta-orchestrators (Agent Performance + Workflow Health) running in sync with complementary coverage
• Contribution Check shows organic improvement (67%→90%) without configuration changes — resilient agent design
• The Great Escapi maintaining disciplined noop pattern — proper conservative escalation behavior
• Cross-agent recovery detection working well: PR Triage + Issue Triage both caught and tracked by Health Manager

Areas to Watch ⚠️

• Stale lock files (20 workflows): Regression appeared overnight Mar 21→22; make recompile needed to restore
• Semantic Function Refactoring cost: $1.22/week at current Claude usage ($63/year); monitor for budget impact
• Contribution Check edge cases: 62-turn run (6-8× normal) suggests prompt may not have appropriate depth limits for complex PRs

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Recommendations

High Priority

1. Resolve Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR (0% success, 7+ days)

   • Compare create vs. update workflow configurations
   • Check for label changes that broke PR state detection
   • Issue #aw_sxrpr1 needs active investigation

2. Run make recompile to fix 20 stale lock files

   • Affected: smoke-claude, smoke-gemini, daily-code-metrics, daily-semgrep-scan, and 16 others
   • P2 but affecting health score

3. Continue monitoring Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier

   • 2 consecutive successes is promising — keep P1 issue open for 3–5 more days

Medium Priority

4. Tune Contribution Check reasoning depth: Add prompt guard for max analysis depth on complex PRs (target ≤20 turns)
5. Track Semantic Function Refactoring cost: Flag if weekly cost exceeds $2.00

Low Priority

6. Document AI Moderator action_required behavior in workflow header comment to prevent future false alarms

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Actions Taken This Run

• Generated this performance report
• Updated shared memory (agent-performance-latest.md, shared-alerts.md)
• Removed outdated January 2026 metrics files (freed ~19KB of memory space)
• No new improvement issues created (existing issues cover all P1 items)

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Analysis period: 2026-03-16 to 2026-03-22 | Run: §23408443798 | Next report: 2026-03-23

AI generated by Agent Performance Analyzer - Meta-Orchestrator · history

• expires on Mar 23, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

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Note

🔒 Integrity filter blocked 1 item

The following item were blocked because they don't meet the GitHub integrity level.

• chore: bump MCP Gateway v0.1.20→v0.1.22, APM v0.8.2→v0.8.3 #22299 pull_request_read: has lower integrity than agent requires. The agent cannot read data with integrity below "approved".

To allow these resources, lower min-integrity in your GitHub frontmatter:

tools:
  github:
    min-integrity: approved  # merged | approved | unapproved | none

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Note

🔒 Integrity filter blocked 1 item

The following item were blocked because they don't meet the GitHub integrity level.

• chore: bump MCP Gateway v0.1.20→v0.1.22, APM v0.8.2→v0.8.3 #22299 pull_request_read: has lower integrity than agent requires. The agent cannot read data with integrity below "approved".

To allow these resources, lower min-integrity in your GitHub frontmatter:

tools:
  github:
    min-integrity: approved  # merged | approved | unapproved | none

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