Agent Persona Exploration - 2026-06-07

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Persona Overview

• Agent: agentic-workflows
• Scenarios Tested: 4 selected from 10 generated scenarios
• Average Quality Score: 4.35/5.0
• Method Note: The runtime exposed the agentic-workflows dispatcher guidance and MCP utilities, but not a direct custom-agent invocation endpoint. The repository agent definition also sets disable-model-invocation: true, so this report assesses the exposed dispatcher/prompt behavior rather than a live custom-agent model response.

Key Findings

• The guidance consistently maps requests to the smallest appropriate trigger: pull_request, workflow_run, or scheduled runs.
• Safe-output routing is strong: suggested writes go through add-comment, create-issue, or report outputs while the agent job remains read-only.
• Security defaults are clear: minimal permissions, explicit network allowlists, and noop guidance for no-change outcomes.
• Best responses were for PR visual regression and deployment failure triage; the weakest area was stakeholder report output selection.

Top Patterns

1. PR automations favored pull_request with github gh-proxy reads and add-comment safe output.
2. Browser/UI tasks correctly selected playwright plus cache-memory for screenshot baselines.
3. Monitoring tasks used workflow_run, actions: read, and issue/report safe outputs.
4. Recurring reports included cleanup guidance, but issue vs discussion selection remained context-dependent.

View High Quality Responses

• Frontend visual regression: Strong trigger/tool fit with pull_request, playwright, cache-memory, local browser targets, and PR comments. Score: 4.6/5.
• Backend schema safety: Good PR automation design with read-only GitHub access and comment/noop outputs. Score: 4.4/5.
• DevOps deployment failure triage: Good workflow_run mapping, log-reading permissions, and incident issue output. Score: 4.4/5.

View Areas for Improvement

• Direct agent testing unavailable: No callable agentic-workflows custom-agent endpoint was exposed in this runtime; findings are based on loaded repository guidance.
• Report output ambiguity: PM/stakeholder digests can reasonably be issues or discussions; .github/aw/report.md defaults to issues unless discussions are explicitly requested.
• Tooling specificity: Schema-safety workflows may need stronger guidance for inferring database/language ecosystems when running migration tests.

Recommendations

1. Add a compact persona/scenario decision matrix to .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md covering PR review, UI testing, deployment triage, QA coverage, and stakeholder reporting.
2. Expand .github/aw/report.md with PM/stakeholder digest examples that clarify when to choose create-issue versus create-discussion.
3. Add reusable examples in .github/aw/workflow-patterns.md for workflow_run incident triage and PR visual-regression workflows.

References: §27097345536

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[pelikhan]

/q agent persona explorer should create issue not discussion

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