Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-05-12

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 19 profiled (219 total workflows)
• Ecosystem health: Quality 74/100 (→ day 11 of plateau), Effectiveness 71/100 (→ stable)
• Workflow health score: 64/100 (↑ +2 from workflow health manager)
• P0 issues: 0 ✅ (APM [aw-failures] [aw] Fix: APM unpack fails for apm-default.tar.gz (exit code 1) — 3 workflows blocked #30252 closed yesterday)
• Top performers: Agentic Maintenance, Issue Monster, Auto-Close Parent Issues, Bot Detection, PR Triage Agent
• Needs improvement: PR-review cluster (8 agents), Daily Fact About gh-aw, Resource Summarizer Agent, Deployment Incident Monitor

Key development since last run: All P0 issues resolved. PRs #31411 and #31418 merged. However, Daily Fact parse failures persist post-merge, and new failures emerged in Design Decision Gate, Go Logger Enhancement, Step Name Alignment, and jsweep.

Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

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

   • Stable top performer — 2/2 successes in this window
   • Consistent, high-quality outputs with no problematic patterns detected
   • Benchmark agent for the ecosystem

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

   • Active and effective; 1/1 success
   • Reliable issue triage and creation quality

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

   • 100% success rate maintained
   • No anomalies detected

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

   • Stable, consistent behaviour

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

   • Stable single-run success

6. Auto-Triage Issues — 2/2 successes, clean pattern

7. Daily Go Function Namer — successful run, no anomalies

8. Daily File Diet — successful run, no anomalies

9. Dependabot Campaign — successful run, no anomalies

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. PR-review cluster (Q: ~20/100, E: ~10/100) — 8 agents: Q, Scout, Archie, /cloclo, Grumpy, Security Review, PR Nitpick, PR Code Quality

   • Patterns: over-creation (wasted run attempts), under-creation (zero useful outputs), inconsistency
   • 41 runs in sample: 33 skipped, 8 action_required, 0 successful outputs
   • ~272 wasted run-attempts/day — highest waste in ecosystem
   • Root cause: trigger gates not filtering properly; agents spin up for irrelevant PRs
   • Recommendation: Fix trigger gate logic (on.labels / PR filter conditions) to prevent unnecessary activations

2. Daily Fact About gh-aw (E: ~5/100)

   • Patterns: under-creation, inconsistency
   • 3/3 runs failed in this window; 15+ consecutive failures total
   • Issues [aw-failures] Daily Fact About gh-aw: 15+ consecutive push-time parse failures — P1 escalation #31432, [deep-report] Add circuit-breaker + schema fix to Daily Fact workflow (P1 — 15+ consecutive parse failures) #31524 open; PR Comment out top-level on.labels in compiled workflows to prevent push-time workflow parse failures #31411 merged but failures continue
   • No circuit-breaker exists — keeps retrying endlessly with zero outputs
   • Recommendation: Investigate parse failure root cause post-merge; add circuit-breaker for repeated failures

3. Resource Summarizer Agent (E: ~15/100)

   • Patterns: under-creation, inconsistency
   • 3/4 runs skipped, 1 action_required, outputs_per_run: 0
   • Chronic under-production; no useful output observed
   • Recommendation: Review activation conditions; consider deprecation if no valid use case

4. Deployment Incident Monitor — zombie pattern

   • Patterns: under-creation
   • 0 active runs in this window; 8× skipped per 100 runs historically
   • Recommendation: Review and deprecate if no incidents are being monitored

5. AI Moderator — recovering from scope-creep

   • Patterns: inconsistency, scope-creep
   • 2/4 success, 1 in-progress, 1 action_required — high variance
   • Recommendation: Monitor recovery; tighten scope boundaries in prompt if variance continues

6. Content Moderation

   • Patterns: inconsistency
   • 3/4 success, 1 action_required; inconsistency flag from last run
   • Recommendation: Review action_required cases to understand deviation trigger

7. Plan Command

   • Patterns: under-creation, inconsistency, over-creation
   • 3/4 skipped; prior burst of 5 issues; bimodal behaviour
   • Recommendation: Review activation condition to normalise output rate

New Failures (2026-05-12, Requires Attention)

• Design Decision Gate ([aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #31626): 1/1 failure — new regression
• Go Logger Enhancement ([aw] Go Logger Enhancement failed #31628): 1/1 failure — new regression
• Step Name Alignment ([aw] Step Name Alignment failed #31636): 1/1 failure — new regression
• jsweep ([aw] jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater failed #31637): 1/1 failure — new regression

These four agents newly failing on the same day suggests a shared infrastructure issue — possibly related to the PR #31418 (engine.max-runs migration) merge side-effects or an engine availability issue.

Quality & Effectiveness Analysis

Output Quality Distribution

• Excellent (80-100): 5 agents (Agentic Maintenance, Issue Monster, Auto-Close Parent Issues, Bot Detection, PR Triage Agent)
• Good (60-79): ~8 agents (utility agents with clean single runs)
• Fair (40-59): 3 agents (AI Moderator, Content Moderation, Plan Command)
• Poor (<40): 3 agents (PR-review cluster, Daily Fact, Resource Summarizer)

Task Completion Rates

• High completion (>80%): 9 agents
• Medium completion (50-80%): 3 agents
• Low completion (<50%): 7 agents (mostly PR-review cluster + chronic failures)

Common Quality Issues

1. Trigger misfires: PR-review cluster (8 agents) — ~272/day wasted
2. Missing circuit-breaker: Daily Fact — 15+ failures with no backoff
3. Zero-output runs: Resource Summarizer, Deployment Incident Monitor — activated but produce nothing
4. Inconsistent scope: AI Moderator, Content Moderation — variable action set between runs

Behavioral Patterns Summary

Pattern	Count	Agents
under-creation	8	PR-review cluster, Daily Fact, Resource Summarizer, Plan Command, Deployment Incident Monitor, Design Decision Gate, Go Logger Enhancement, Step Name Alignment
inconsistency	6	PR-review cluster, Content Moderation, AI Moderator, Daily Fact, Resource Summarizer, Plan Command
over-creation	2	PR-review cluster (run-attempts), Plan Command (output bursts)
scope-creep	1	AI Moderator (recovering)

Dominant pattern: under-creation (8 agents, ~42% of profiled) — unchanged from previous run.

Collaboration Analysis

Productive Patterns ✅

• Workflow Health Manager → Agent Performance: Clean handoff — WH manager surfaced daily-fact, smoke, and firewall issues allowing APM to avoid duplicate issue creation
• Agentic Maintenance + Auto-Triage: Complementary — maintenance fixes, triage routes — no conflicts detected
• Issue Monster + Auto-Close Parent Issues: Creating and closing issues at appropriate lifecycle points

Coordination Gaps ⚠️

• 4 newly-failing agents (Design Decision Gate, Go Logger Enhancement, Step Name Alignment, jsweep): No cross-agent correlation detected — these failures appeared on the same day and may share a root cause (infrastructure or engine availability). Recommend investigation.
• Smoke test failures across Pi, Gemini, Codex: No dedicated recovery agent; relies on human intervention.

Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered Areas

• Issue triage and management (Auto-Triage, Issue Monster, Auto-Close)
• PR quality review (multiple agents — currently over-covered with high waste)
• Content/bot moderation (AI Moderator, Content Moderation, Bot Detection)
• Maintenance and health (Agentic Maintenance, PR Triage Agent)

Coverage Gaps

• Smoke test recovery: 3+ engines failing, no automated recovery or escalation
• Firewall reporting: [aw] Daily Observability Report for AWF Firewall and MCP Gateway failed #31607, [aw] Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter failed #31620 broken — no safe outputs from agent job
• Circuit-breaker pattern: No agent implements retry backoff for chronic failures
• Cluster failure investigation: No agent correlates same-day multi-workflow failures

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Fix PR-review cluster trigger gates — highest ROI

   • 8 agents × ~34 wasted runs/day = ~272 run-attempts/day burning compute
   • Fix on.labels / PR filter conditions so agents only activate on relevant PRs
   • Estimated effort: 2-4 hours | Expected improvement: 90%+ waste reduction

2. Diagnose 4 same-day failures (Design Decision Gate, Go Logger Enhancement, Step Name Alignment, jsweep)

   • Possible engine availability issue or PR Refactor engine.max-runs to top-level max-runs with AWF enforcement #31418 merge side-effect
   • Check engine logs; compare trigger conditions and engine types
   • Estimated effort: 1-2 hours

3. Add circuit-breaker to Daily Fact ([aw-failures] Daily Fact About gh-aw: 15+ consecutive push-time parse failures — P1 escalation #31432, [deep-report] Add circuit-breaker + schema fix to Daily Fact workflow (P1 — 15+ consecutive parse failures) #31524)

   • 15+ consecutive failures burning runs; PR Comment out top-level on.labels in compiled workflows to prevent push-time workflow parse failures #31411 didn't fix it
   • Add max-retry gate or failure-count circuit-breaker in workflow config
   • Estimated effort: 1 hour

Medium Priority

4. Deprecate Deployment Incident Monitor — zero output zombie

   • 0 useful outputs; consistently skipped; no incidents being surfaced
   • Confirm no active use case, then remove or archive

5. Review Resource Summarizer Agent — chronic zero-output

   • Activation conditions likely too strict; outputs never produced
   • Either fix activation logic or deprecate

6. Stabilize AI Moderator scope — ongoing inconsistency + scope-creep

   • Add explicit boundaries in prompt; review action_required triggers
   • Monitor for 1 week after adjustment

Low Priority

7. Improve Plan Command burst behaviour — add deduplication check
8. Node.js 20 deprecation — track deadline Sep 16, 2026 (4 months out)
9. Quality/Effectiveness plateau investigation — 11 days flat at Q:74, E:71; structural bottleneck likely in PR-review cluster waste dragging ecosystem averages

Trends (vs. Last Run — 2026-05-11)

Metric	Previous	Current	Change
Quality score	74/100	74/100	→ plateau day 11
Effectiveness	71/100	71/100	→ plateau day 11
Workflow health	62/100	64/100	↑ +2
P0 issues	1	0	✅ resolved
Active P1 issues	5	4	↓ -1
Total workflows	218	219	+1 new
New failures	0	4	⚠️ watch

Actions Taken This Run

• Loaded shared memory from Workflow Health Manager (run §25715699041)
• Pattern-detector analysis: 19 agents classified
• Cross-referenced 4 same-day failures as potential shared-cause cluster
• No new P0/P1 issues filed (existing issues [aw-failures] Daily Fact About gh-aw: 15+ consecutive push-time parse failures — P1 escalation #31432, [deep-report] Add circuit-breaker + schema fix to Daily Fact workflow (P1 — 15+ consecutive parse failures) #31524, [aw-failures] Smoke Gemini agent step fails on every PR — fetch failed to Gemini API (generateContentStream / generateJson) #31575 cover active P1s)
• Updated agent-performance-latest.md and shared-alerts.md in repo memory

Next Steps

1. Investigate 4 same-day workflow failures for shared root cause
2. Monitor Daily Fact failures — if still failing after [aw-failures] Daily Fact About gh-aw: 15+ consecutive push-time parse failures — P1 escalation #31432/[deep-report] Add circuit-breaker + schema fix to Daily Fact workflow (P1 — 15+ consecutive parse failures) #31524 resolution, add circuit-breaker
3. Prioritise PR-review cluster trigger gate fix (highest waste)
4. Review Deployment Incident Monitor and Resource Summarizer for deprecation
5. Watch quality/effectiveness plateau — if still flat at day 14, investigate structural bottleneck

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Analysis period: 2026-05-11 to 2026-05-12 | Next report: 2026-05-13
Run: §25736968122

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