Agent Performance Report — 2026-06-13

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Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-06-13

Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 22 active workflow types (246 total workflows)
• Total outputs reviewed: ~40+ issues, PRs, and run artifacts from Jun 12–13
• Quality score: 57/100 (↓5 from 62 Jun 12)
• Effectiveness score: 55/100 (↓3 from 58 Jun 12)
• Ecosystem health: 72/100 (↓3 from 75)
• Top performers: Agentic Maintenance, Bot Detection, Auto-Triage Issues, Issue Monster, PR Sous Chef
• Needs improvement: Code Simplifier (Day 5), Test Quality Sentinel, Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer, Dev

The most pressing concern is the AIC Budget Exhaustion Cluster expanding to 6 agents on Day 5 with no root fix applied. A new systemic issue (#39077) was filed this run. Additionally, a performance regression cluster was detected today with compile operations 165–269% slower, warranting immediate investigation.

Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

Rank	Agent	Quality	Effectiveness	Notes
1	Agentic Maintenance	82/100	88/100	100% success, 2m18s, clean
2	Bot Detection	80/100	90/100	100% success, 13s, very efficient
3	Auto-Triage Issues	80/100	82/100	100% success, 5m24s
4	Issue Monster	78/100	85/100	100% success, 30s
5	PR Sous Chef	78/100	80/100	100% success, 9m59s
6	PR Triage Agent	78/100	80/100	100% success, 9m14s
7	Claude Code User Documentation Review	75/100	78/100	100% success, 14m58s
8	Lint Monster	75/100	78/100	Filed #39003, #39004 (actionable)
9	Daily A/B Testing Advisor	75/100	72/100	Active experiments #39062, #39063
10	Duplicate Code Detector	72/100	75/100	3 issues filed #39026–#39028

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. Code Simplifier (Q:10, E:5) — CRITICAL Day 5 failure

   • HTTP 429 rate-limited (provider quota exhausted from Jun 12 runaway of 4,219 AIC)
   • Issue [aw] Code Simplifier failed #39013 filed today
   • Root fix: max-turns: 30, bash allowlist, max-ai-credits: 1500
   • Action: Tracked in [aw] Code Simplifier failed #39013; systemic issue [perf-improvement] AIC Budget Crisis Day 5 — 6-agent cluster expanding, root fix urgently needed #39077

2. Dev (Q:30, E:20) — Produced no safe outputs ([aw] Dev produced no safe outputs #39046)

   • No noop call made when nothing actionable found
   • Prompt review needed: add explicit noop fallback guidance

3. Test Quality Sentinel (Q:35, E:25) — AIC budget exceeded ([aw] Test Quality Sentinel exceeded daily AI credits budget #39059)

   • Part of 6-agent AIC cluster
   • Fix: raise max-ai-credits to 2000

4. Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer (Q:35, E:25) — AIC budget exceeded ([aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer exceeded daily AI credits budget #39050)

   • Fix: raise daily AIC budget or reduce scope per run

5. Daily CLI Tools Exploratory Tester (Q:40, E:30) — AIC rate limit ([aw] Daily CLI Tools Exploratory Tester hit AI credits rate limit #39031)

   • Reduce scope or raise max-ai-credits

6. jsweep (JavaScript Unbloater) (Q:42, E:35) — Tool denial limit ([aw] jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater exceeded tool denial limit #39020)

   • Tool allowlist needs expansion or scope reduction

7. Copilot CLI Deep Research (Q:42, E:32) — Tool denial limit ([aw] Copilot CLI Deep Research Agent exceeded tool denial limit #39022)

   • Tool allowlist review needed

8. Failure Investigator (6h) (Q:42, E:35) — Pre-fetch blind spot ([aw-failures] Failure Investigator pre-fetch returns empty failed_run_ids while in-window agentic failures exist — discovery bli [Content truncated due to length] #39037)

   • Returns empty failed_run_ids when in-window failures exist
   • Detection gap persists even after previous blind spot fix

9. Avenger (Q:55, E:45) — Failed today ([aw] Avenger failed #39073)

   • May be transient; monitor next run

Inactive / Zero Output Agents

• Daily Safe Outputs Git Simulator: 5-day streak failure ([aw-failures] P1: Daily Safe Outputs Git Simulator — 5-day consecutive failure streak (memory branch missing) #39024) — infrastructure gap, not prompt issue
• Smoke Copilot: ~95% failure due to upload_artifact 400 error ([aw-failures] P1: upload_artifact safe-output sends malformed CreateArtifact request → 400, fails safe_outputs job #38998)

Quality & Effectiveness Analysis

Output Quality Distribution

• Excellent (80–100): 3 agents (Agentic Maintenance, Bot Detection, Auto-Triage Issues)
• Good (65–79): 7 agents
• Fair (40–64): 3 agents (jsweep, Copilot CLI Deep Research, Failure Investigator)
• Poor (<40): 3 agents (Code Simplifier, Dev, Test Quality Sentinel)

Common Quality Issues

1. AIC exhaustion → empty output (6 agents): Agents fail before producing any result
2. No noop fallback (Dev, [aw] Dev produced no safe outputs #39046): Agents must call noop when nothing actionable is found
3. Pre-fetch blind spots (Failure Investigator): Query logic failing to discover failures in discovery window

Effectiveness Highlights

• PR Sous Chef and PR Triage Agent: Consistent daily delivery, high signal-to-noise
• Lint Monster: Two actionable PR-ready refactoring issues filed in one run
• Duplicate Code Detector: Found and documented 2 concrete duplication patterns with fix guidance

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Code quality cluster (Lint Monster + Duplicate Code Detector + Static Analysis + Performance Monitor): All active Jun 13, generating comprehensive code quality signal
• PR automation (PR Sous Chef + PR Triage Agent + PR Description Updater): Consistent reactive coverage of open PRs
• A/B Testing experiments (Daily A/B Testing Advisor): Proactively spinning up experiments for architecture improvements

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• AIC exhaustion cluster (Day 5, 6 agents): Systematic resource limit causing complete output failure. Expanding +1 agent/day.
• Tool denial pattern (jsweep + Copilot CLI Deep Research): SDK-driver workflows burning AIC before hitting tool permission guardrail (same pattern as [aw-failures] Copilot SDK-driver workflows burn AIC then hard-fail on tool-permission-denial guardrail #38904, closed Jun 12)
• No-safe-output pattern (Dev, [aw] Dev produced no safe outputs #39046): Agent completing without calling noop; creates confusing failure reports

Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered

• PR review and triage
• Code quality (linting, duplication, static analysis)
• Security and bot detection
• Issue triage and moderation
• Campaign orchestration (A/B testing)

Coverage Gaps

• Test quality: Test Quality Sentinel blocked by AIC; test coverage analysis dark
• Code simplification: Code Simplifier blocked Day 5; simplification work paused
• CLI tool testing: Daily CLI Tools Exploratory Tester blocked; CLI regression coverage dark
• JavaScript maintenance: jsweep blocked; JS cleanup stalled
• Failure investigation: Failure Investigator pre-fetch blind spot; 6h windows may go unmonitored

Behavioral Patterns — Summary

Productive ✅

• Code quality momentum: Lint Monster, Duplicate Code Detector, Static Analysis all delivering
• PR automation (PR Sous Chef, PR Triage) consistent and efficient
• A/B Testing experiments running proactively ([ab-advisor] Experiment campaign for architecture-guardian: A/B test sub_agent_strategy #39062 architecture-guardian experiment)

Problematic ⚠️

• AIC cluster expanding: 6 agents, Day 5, root fix still not applied
• Performance regression spike (NEW Jun 13): CompileSimpleWorkflow +269%, CompileComplexWorkflow +203%, YAMLGeneration +165% ([performance] Regression in CompileSimpleWorkflow: 269% slower #38870–[performance] Regression in YAMLGeneration: 165% slower #38872)
• Tool denial pattern: jsweep + Copilot CLI Deep Research hitting allowlist limits

Recommendations

High Priority 🔴

1. Apply AIC root fix immediately — Raise max-ai-credits from 1000 to 2000 for analysis-heavy workflows. 6 agents blocked, cluster expanding daily. Systemic issue: [perf-improvement] AIC Budget Crisis Day 5 — 6-agent cluster expanding, root fix urgently needed #39077. Estimated effort: 30 min. Impact: Unblock 6 agents.

2. Fix Code Simplifier permanently — Apply max-turns: 30, bash tool allowlist, max-ai-credits: 1500. Provider rate-limit cascades are affecting ecosystem quota. Issue: [aw] Code Simplifier failed #39013. Estimated effort: 1–2 hours.

3. Investigate performance regression — 3 compile operations regressed 165–269% today ([performance] Regression in CompileSimpleWorkflow: 269% slower #38870–[performance] Regression in YAMLGeneration: 165% slower #38872). Identify the recent commit causing the regression and revert or fix. Estimated effort: 1–3 hours.

Medium Priority 🟡

4. Fix upload_artifact 400 error ([aw-failures] P1: upload_artifact safe-output sends malformed CreateArtifact request → 400, fails safe_outputs job #38998) — Smoke Copilot ecosystem 95% dark. safe_outputs job needs non-fatal artifact upload handling.

5. Fix Failure Investigator pre-fetch ([aw-failures] Failure Investigator pre-fetch returns empty failed_run_ids while in-window agentic failures exist — discovery bli [Content truncated due to length] #39037) — Discovery query returning empty failed_run_ids despite active failures. Reliability gap in meta-monitoring.

6. Add noop guidance to Dev workflow — Prevent false-positive "no safe outputs" failure alerts.

Low Priority 🟢

7. Investigate jsweep and Copilot CLI Deep Research tool denial — expand allowlists or reduce tool scope.
8. Seed memory/git-simulator branch ([aw-failures] P1: Daily Safe Outputs Git Simulator — 5-day consecutive failure streak (memory branch missing) #39024) — 5-day infrastructure gap.
9. Fix Smoke Trigger startup_failure ([aw-failures] P2: Smoke Trigger & Smoke Multi Caller — 100% startup_failure (reusable-workflow callers), reliability blind spot #38999) — reusable-workflow callers broken.

Trends

Metric	Jun 11	Jun 12	Jun 13	Trend
Quality score	67/100	62/100	57/100	↓ Declining
Effectiveness	63/100	58/100	55/100	↓ Declining
Ecosystem health	83/100	75/100	72/100	↓ Declining
AIC cluster size	4 agents	5 agents	6 agents	↑ Expanding
P1 issues open	2	3	3	→ Stable (new + resolved)

Root cause of decline: The AIC budget cluster is the primary driver. Without fixing it, the trend will continue.

Actions Taken This Run

• ✅ Created 1 systemic improvement issue: AIC Budget Crisis Day 5 ([perf-improvement] AIC Budget Crisis Day 5 — 6-agent cluster expanding, root fix urgently needed #39077)
• ✅ Updated agent-performance-latest.md in shared memory
• ✅ Updated shared-alerts.md with Jun 13 state

Next Steps

1. Day-zero fix: Raise max-ai-credits to 2000 for affected workflows (see [perf-improvement] AIC Budget Crisis Day 5 — 6-agent cluster expanding, root fix urgently needed #39077)
2. Code Simplifier: Apply runaway guard before next scheduled run
3. Performance regression: Identify and revert regression commit causing 165–269% slowdown
4. Monitor: Avenger, Failure Investigator, Dev on next run

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Analysis period: 2026-06-12 to 2026-06-13
Next report: 2026-06-14
Run: §27467672212

Generated by ⚡ Agent Performance Analyzer - Meta-Orchestrator · 608.5 AIC · ⌖ 21.6 AIC · ⊞ 22.2K · ◷

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