Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-05-10

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 19 profiled (218 total in ecosystem)
• Total outputs reviewed: issues, PRs, comments across last 7 days
• Overall quality score: 74/100 (→ stable plateau, day 9)
• Overall effectiveness score: 71/100 (→ stable plateau, day 9)
• Ecosystem health: 61/100 (→ stable, day 5)
• Engines: copilot (140), claude (60), codex (12), pi (2), other (4)
• Top performers: Agentic Maintenance, Issue Monster, Auto-Close Parent Issues, Bot Detection, PR Triage Agent
• Needs improvement: PR-review cluster (8 agents), Plan Command, Daily Fact About gh-aw, Smoke Gemini, Deployment Incident Monitor

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Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. Agentic Maintenance (Quality: 90/100, Effectiveness: 92/100)

   • Consistently high-quality, actionable outputs
   • Top efficiency across all agent types
   • No problematic patterns detected

2. Issue Monster (Quality: 85/100, Effectiveness: 87/100)

   • Reliably selects high-value issues for Copilot (e.g., [plan] MCP server quick wins: icons, handler docs, and error code fix #30986, [deps] Update @playwright/cli from 0.1.11 to 0.1.13 #30982, 🔍 Multi-Device Docs Testing Report - 2026-05-08 #30954)
   • Clear, well-structured outputs

3. Auto-Close Parent Issues (Quality: 82/100, Effectiveness: 85/100)

   • 100% task completion rate today
   • Precise scope, no drift detected

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

   • Stable, consistent, no pattern issues
   • Reliable safe output compliance

5. PR Triage Agent (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 80/100)

   • Stable and well-structured outputs
   • Good collaboration signal with other agents

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. PR-review cluster — Q, Scout, Archie, cloclo, Grumpy, Security Review, PR Nitpick, PR Code Quality (Effectiveness: ~0/100)

   • Pattern: under-creation + inconsistency
   • 34 runs today producing zero outputs (all action_required)
   • ~100+ wasted trigger events per day consuming runner quota
   • Root cause: likely a shared trigger condition mismatch or missing gate check
   • Recommendation: Add a shared pre-check step to gate on PR state before proceeding; consolidate overlapping responsibilities across the 8 agents
   • Action: Existing tracking — recommend consolidation issue

2. Plan Command (Quality: ~40/100, Effectiveness: ~30/100)

   • Pattern: over-creation + repetition
   • Created 5 issues ([plan] Add inline Claude/non-Copilot auth setup to Quick Start Step 3 #31207–[plan] Fix minor engine parity gaps in overview.mdx, README, and engines.md #31211) in <60 seconds when 1 was expected
   • Missing deduplication / idempotency guard
   • Recommendation: Add check for existing open [plan] issues before creating; implement rate-limit or batch guard in prompt
   • Action: Tracking as P2; dedup improvement needed

3. Daily Fact About gh-aw (Effectiveness: 0/100)

   • Pattern: under-creation + inconsistency
   • 3 consecutive failures in 2 days; 0% success rate
   • Recommendation: Investigate engine/tool configuration; check for missing API access or prompt errors
   • Action: Monitor; escalate to P1 if failure continues

4. Smoke Gemini (Effectiveness: 0/100)

   • Pattern: under-creation
   • 35+ consecutive failure days; proxy/API-key blocks (fetch TypeError)
   • [deep-report] Fix Gemini smoke engine (broken 30+ consecutive days) #30175 fix was ineffective
   • Recommendation: Fresh infrastructure investigation needed — proxy config, Gemini API key rotation, or engine deprecation
   • Action: P0 ongoing — [aw-failures] P0: Smoke CI agent crashes — Crush EROFS install failure & Gemini API key invalid #29666

5. Deployment Incident Monitor (Effectiveness: 0/100)

   • Pattern: under-creation (zombie)
   • 8/8 runs skipped today; 0 conclusions produced in weeks
   • Recommendation: Review trigger conditions; agent may be permanently blocked by a stale condition; consider deprecation if no path to recovery
   • Action: P2 watch

Recovering Agents 📈

• AI Moderator — 2/3 success today vs. prior 0%; scope-creep on PR diff events is improving; continue monitoring
• Content Moderation — 67% success, improving from lower baseline

Inactive / Structural Failures

• Smoke Pi — noop violation (no safe outputs called); needs safe-output compliance fix
• Smoke Codex — missing web-fetch MCP tool; structural config gap
• Resource Summarizer — 0 outputs across 7 runs; chronic skip pattern; may need deprecation review
• Doc Build Deploy — deployment stalled (action_required on 10 consecutive runs)

Behavioral Pattern Analysis

Pattern Distribution (19 profiled agents)

Pattern	Agent Count	% of Profiled
under-creation	8	42%
inconsistency	7	37%
scope-creep	2	11%
over-creation	1	5%
repetition	1	5%
Healthy (no issues)	5	26%

Dominant Concern: Under-Creation (42%)

8 agents are running but failing to produce outputs. This is the primary driver of the depressed health score (61/100). The PR-review cluster alone accounts for 34 wasted runs per day.

Secondary Concern: Inconsistency (37%)

Scheduled agents (Dev, Stale PR Cleanup, Weekly Editors Health Check) showing run-to-run variance on fixed-cadence tasks. This suggests external dependency fragility (API timeouts, token expiry) rather than prompt issues.

Scope Creep (Improving)

Both AI Moderator and Content Moderation showed scope-creep on PR diff events. Both are actively recovering — the pattern has been addressed and success rates are improving.

Collaboration Patterns

• ✅ Campaign Manager → Issue Monster → Copilot: Effective delegation chain producing resolved issues
• ✅ Workflow Health Manager → Agent Performance Analyzer: Good cross-orchestrator coordination via shared-alerts.md
• ⚠️ PR-review cluster: 8 agents duplicating similar review functions with no coordination; producing mutual action_required loops
• ⚠️ Plan Command + Campaign Manager: Over-creation by Plan Command may pollute campaign manager's issue queue

Quality & Effectiveness Analysis

Quality Distribution (profiled agents)

Band	Range	Agent Count
Excellent	80–100	5
Good	60–79	3
Fair	40–59	2
Poor	<40	9

Note: Agents with 0% success rate score in the Poor band by default.

Common Quality Issues

1. Missing safe-output compliance — Smoke Pi, and sporadic noop violations
2. No deduplication guard — Plan Command; 5× issue burst
3. Stale trigger conditions — Deployment Incident Monitor (zombie), PR-review cluster
4. Missing tool configuration — Smoke Codex (web-fetch MCP absent)
5. Engine-level infrastructure failure — Smoke Gemini (35+ day proxy block)

Resource Efficiency

• PR-review cluster: highest waste — 34 runs/day × 8 agents with 0 outputs = ~272 wasted run-attempts/day
• Smoke Gemini: 35 days × daily runs = ~35 wasted runs on a broken engine
• Deployment Incident Monitor: 8 runs skipped = 0 value, non-zero cost

Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered Areas ✅

• Issue triage and classification (Issue Monster, PR Triage Agent, Auto-Close Parent Issues)
• Code health and maintenance (Agentic Maintenance, Bot Detection)
• Community moderation (AI Moderator, Content Moderation — recovering)
• CI/CD smoke testing for copilot and claude engines

Coverage Gaps ⚠️

• Gemini/Pi engine smoke testing — both broken; no validated Gemini/Pi path
• Deployment monitoring — Deployment Incident Monitor zombie; no active deployment health agent
• PR review — cluster is broken; effectively no functioning PR review agent today

Redundancy

• 8 overlapping PR-review agents (Q, Scout, Archie, cloclo, Grumpy, Security Review, PR Nitpick, PR Code Quality) with similar trigger conditions → consolidation opportunity

Recommendations

High Priority 🔴

1. Fix PR-review cluster trigger gate — Add a shared pre-check step across all 8 agents to validate PR state before running; or consolidate into 2–3 focused agents

   • Estimated effort: 2–4 hours
   • Expected improvement: Eliminate ~272 wasted run-attempts/day, restore PR review coverage

2. Plan Command deduplication — Add open-issue check before creating [plan] issues; implement idempotency guard

   • Estimated effort: 1–2 hours
   • Expected improvement: Reduce over-creation by ~80%; cleaner campaign queue

3. Smoke Gemini fresh investigation — [aw-failures] P0: Smoke CI agent crashes — Crush EROFS install failure & Gemini API key invalid #29666 / [deep-report] Fix Gemini smoke engine (broken 30+ consecutive days) #30175 fix was ineffective; escalate to infrastructure team or deprecate the Gemini smoke workflow

   • Estimated effort: 2–3 hours investigation
   • Expected improvement: Resolve 35+ day P0 or formally retire the workflow

Medium Priority 🟡

1. Daily Fact About gh-aw — Investigate 3-day failure streak; check engine config and API access
2. Smoke Pi safe-output compliance — Add noop fallback to ensure safe-output tool is always called
3. Deployment Incident Monitor — Review zombie trigger; consider deprecation
4. Resource Summarizer — Review chronic skip pattern; may be permanently misconfigured

Low Priority 🟢

1. Scope creep monitoring — Continue watching AI Moderator and Content Moderation recovery
2. Node.js 20 → 22 migration — Sep 16, 2026 deadline; plan migration for CI workflows
3. Smoke Codex MCP tool — Add web-fetch to Codex engine configuration

Trends

Metric	Value	Trend
Overall quality	74/100	→ stable plateau (day 9)
Overall effectiveness	71/100	→ stable plateau (day 9)
Ecosystem health	61/100	→ stable (day 5)
Total workflows	218	→ stable
P0 issues	5	→ stable (no new, none resolved)
P1 issues	4	→ stable
Top performer count	5	→ stable
Under-creation agents	8	→ stable (no improvement)

The quality and effectiveness plateau at 74/71 indicates the ecosystem has reached a local stability equilibrium — the healthy agents are performing well but the broken agents (particularly Smoke Gemini and the PR-review cluster) are preventing further improvement. Breaking the plateau requires resolving at least one P0 issue.

Actions Taken This Run

• Pattern analysis complete: pattern-detector classified 19 agents
• Identified PR-review cluster as highest-priority structural issue (272 wasted runs/day)
• Plan Command over-creation confirmed (5 issues in <60s)
• Smoke Gemini escalated (35+ days, fix [deep-report] Fix Gemini smoke engine (broken 30+ consecutive days) #30175 ineffective)
• Shared memory updated: agent-performance-latest.md
• No new P0/P1 issues created (all active issues already tracked)

Next Steps

1. Address PR-review cluster trigger gate (High Priority)
2. Add Plan Command deduplication guard
3. Fresh Smoke Gemini investigation or formal deprecation
4. Monitor Daily Fact About gh-aw for continued failures
5. Review Deployment Incident Monitor for deprecation

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Analysis period: 2026-05-03 to 2026-05-10
Previous report: §25601701383 (2026-05-09)
Next report: 2026-05-17
Run: §25629331070

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