Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-07-20

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Executive Summary

• Analysis date: 2026-07-20 | Run: §29745587435
• Agents analyzed: ~30 active workflows sampled from 129 total
• Ecosystem health score: ~60/100 (↓ from 63 Jul 8) — multiple smoke test failures today
• Average quality score: 62/100 (→ stable)
• Average effectiveness score: 61/100 (↓ from 64 Jul 8)
• Top performers: Auto-Triage Issues, PR Triage Agent, Bot Detection, Content Moderation, Copilot SWE Agent
• Needs improvement: Q workflow, AI Moderator, Smoke agents cluster, Agent of the Day Blog Writer, Layout Specification Maintainer

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Key Changes Since Jul 8

Change	Direction	Notes
Smoke test cluster failures	🔴 New	AOAI, Codex, Claude, Copilot all failing today
Q workflow	🔴 Worsening	4/5 skipped + 1 AR; PR #43527 still unmerged (12+ days)
AI Moderator	🔴 Unchanged	3/5 AR + 2/5 skipped; Codex engine 404 persists
Agentic Commands	🟡 Improving	10/17 success (59%) vs ~20% effective Jul 8
Agent of the Day Blog Writer	🔴 New failure	Both failed + exceeded tool denial limit today
Layout Specification Maintainer	🔴 New failure	Exceeded tool denial limit
PR NLP Analysis	🔴 New	Timed out today

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Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. Auto-Triage Issues (Quality: 88/100, Effectiveness: 87/100)

   • 5/5 success — perfect reliability
   • Consistent, well-structured triage output
   • No issues; maintain as-is

2. Copilot SWE Agent (Quality: 92/100, Effectiveness: 91/100)

   • 20 PRs created Jul 20 alone; very high engagement
   • Diverse task coverage (deps, docs, features, fixes)
   • Example outputs: Replace in-doc workshop experience with external workshop repository link #46827, fix: normalize #nosec justification separators from -/— to -- #46801, chore(deps): update charmbracelet/x/exp/golden to v0.0.0-20260720091843-3eef36eaaa28 #46800, feat: enable evals in 64 agentic workflows #46774

3. PR Triage Agent (Quality: 88/100, Effectiveness: 86/100)

   • 1/1 success today; generates actionable triage reports
   • Consistent quality; no regressions

4. Bot Detection / Content Moderation (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 78/100)

   • Both 1/1 success today; confirmed stable recovery since Jul 8

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. Q workflow (Quality: 10/100, Effectiveness: 5/100)

   • 4/5 skipped + 1 AR today — effectively non-functional (12+ days)
   • Root cause: quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 not merged
   • Action: Escalate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 merge — critical path; this is now a 12+ day blocker

2. AI Moderator (Quality: 35/100, Effectiveness: 20/100)

   • 3/5 AR + 2/5 skipped; persists since before Jul 8
   • Root cause: Codex engine 404 ([aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241)
   • Prompt deficiency: stale engine guidance — prompt hardcodes Codex despite 404 errors
   • Action: Switch engine from Codex to Copilot (known fix per [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241)

3. Agent of the Day Blog Writer (Quality: 30/100, Effectiveness: 25/100)

   • Two issues filed today: failed + exceeded tool denial limit ([aw] Daily Agent of the Day Blog Writer failed #46798, [aw] Daily Agent of the Day Blog Writer exceeded tool denial limit #46765)
   • Pattern: retry/re-run causing over-tool-use; possible trigger loop
   • Prompt deficiency: missing self-assessment loop, low-actionability outputs
   • Action: Issue warranted for tool denial root cause

4. Layout Specification Maintainer (Quality: 40/100, Effectiveness: 35/100)

   • Exceeded tool denial limit ([aw] Layout Specification Maintainer exceeded tool denial limit #46773)
   • Prompt deficiency: likely generic task framing leading to excessive tool calls
   • Action: Add tool budget awareness to prompt; audit tool usage patterns

5. Smoke test cluster (AOAI Entra, Codex, Claude, Copilot) — Quality: 0/100 today

   • All 4 failing simultaneously today (issues [aw] Smoke Copilot - AOAI (Entra) is missing required tool #46822, [aw] Smoke Codex is missing required data #46818, [aw] Smoke Claude failed #46814, [aw] Smoke Copilot failed #46794)
   • Suggests systemic infra/engine availability issue rather than prompt problems
   • Action: Coordinate with WHM; likely external engine degradation

Inactive / Deprecated Candidates

• Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer: 100% AR persists; deprecation recommended
• Design Decision Gate: 100% AR persists; redesign-or-deprecate candidate
• PR Code Quality Reviewer + Test Quality Sentinel: CLI hang-on-exit (#aw_pr_cq_tqs); fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 still open
• Daily BYOK Ollama: api-proxy 503 persists ([aw-failures] Daily BYOK Ollama Test 100% red for 8+ days — offline+BYOK api-proxy returns 503 on /v1/models, Copilot CLI gets H [Content truncated due to length] #41827, [aw] Daily BYOK Ollama Test failed #43883)
• Smoke Copilot Sub Agents: 100% red persists ([aw-failures] Smoke Copilot Sub Agents 100% red — Copilot SDK returns "No model available (policy enablement)" for gpt-5.3-codex [Content truncated due to length] #42824)

Quality Analysis

Output Quality Distribution (estimated from run data)

• Excellent (80-100): 5 agents (Copilot SWE, Auto-Triage, PR Triage, Bot Detection, Content Moderation)
• Good (60-79): ~8 agents (Agentic Commands, Avenger, Agentic Maintenance, Code Simplifier, etc.)
• Fair (40-59): ~6 agents (Daily yamllint Fixer, Layout Specification Maintainer, Impeccable Skills Reviewer, etc.)
• Poor (<40): ~5 agents (Q workflow, AI Moderator, Agent of the Day Blog Writer, Smoke cluster, Matt Pocock Reviewer)

Prompt Deficiency Audit — Bottom Agents

Agent	Primary Deficiency	Evidence
Q workflow	Stale quality gate dependency	100% skip/AR; blocked by external PR 12+ days
AI Moderator	Stale engine guidance (Codex 404)	Issues #44241, persistent AR
Agent of the Day Blog Writer	Missing self-assessment loop + generic framing	Failed + tool denial same day
Layout Spec Maintainer	Generic task framing → unbounded tool calls	Tool denial #46773
Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer	Stale tool guidance + low actionability	100% AR, deprecation candidate
Design Decision Gate	Low actionability outputs	100% AR, redesign candidate
Smoke Claude/AOAI/Codex	External engine failure (not prompt)	Simultaneous failures today

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Copilot SWE Agent high-volume PR authoring: 20 PRs/day, diverse and targeted
• Auto-Triage → SWE Agent → PR merge pipeline: functioning well
• Agentic Commands stabilizing: 59% success rate (up from ~20% effective in Jul 8 AM)

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• Smoke cluster simultaneous failure: 4 smoke workflows (AOAI, Codex, Claude, Copilot) all failing same day — likely shared engine/infra degradation, not individual agent issues
• Agent of the Day dual failure: Filed as both failed AND exceeded tool denial limit the same day — suggests retry trigger or no deduplication guard
• Q workflow 12+ day AR plateau: No improvement since Jul 8; PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 is becoming a sustained blocker
• Tool denial cluster: Agent of the Day + Layout Specification Maintainer both exceeded limits today — possible prompt pattern causing over-calling

Coverage Gaps

• Security vulnerability tracking: no dedicated agent visible
• Performance regression detection: limited coverage
• Evals reporting: active (Daily Evals Feature Report working)

Ecosystem Health

• Compilation: 258/258 lock files present ✅
• PR fix: set umask 022 in AWF wrapper to prevent chroot hosts EACCES on rootless runners #46188 (EACCES umask fix): still open — affects Smoke CI reliability
• PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 (CLI hang fix for Impeccable/PR Code Quality/Test Quality Sentinel): still open
• PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 (Q workflow quality gate): CRITICAL — 12+ days unmerged

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Merge PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 — Q workflow has been 100% non-functional for 12+ days due to this unmerged quality gate PR. Every day of delay = ~24 wasted runs.

2. Merge PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 (CLI hang fix) — Unblocks Impeccable Skills Reviewer, PR Code Quality Reviewer, and Test Quality Sentinel from 100% AR.

3. Fix AI Moderator engine — Switch from Codex to Copilot engine per [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241. Single-line change, immediate recovery.

4. Investigate Agent of the Day Blog Writer dual failure — Two issues in one day ([aw] Daily Agent of the Day Blog Writer failed #46798 + [aw] Daily Agent of the Day Blog Writer exceeded tool denial limit #46765) suggests retry loop. Add deduplication guard or self-assessment to prompt.

Medium Priority

5. Audit Layout Specification Maintainer prompt — Add tool budget constraints and exit conditions to prevent tool denial pattern.

6. Investigate smoke cluster failure — 4 engines failing simultaneously (Jul 20) warrants infra health check; if persistent, coordinate with engine teams.

7. Deprecate Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer — Persistent 100% AR; redesign-or-deprecate decision overdue.

Low Priority

8. Design Decision Gate redesign — Low-actionability outputs + 100% AR; define concrete success criteria or deprecate.

9. Merge PR fix: set umask 022 in AWF wrapper to prevent chroot hosts EACCES on rootless runners #46188 — Resolves Smoke CI EACCES mkdir; improves CI reliability.

Trends

Metric	Jul 8	Jul 20	Trend
Overall health score	63/100	~60/100	↓
Quality score	63/100	62/100	→
Effectiveness score	64/100	61/100	↓
Q workflow AR rate	79%	~90%	↓
Agentic Commands success	~20%	59%	↑
Smoke cluster	Partial	Widespread	↓

Actions Taken This Run

• Generated this performance report discussion
• Updated shared memory (agent-performance-latest.md, shared-alerts.md)
• No new issues filed (all active blockers have existing tracking; Agent of the Day dual failure tracked in report for WHM to action)

Next Steps

1. Merge PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 (Q workflow quality gate) — highest ROI action
2. Merge PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 (CLI hang fix) — unblocks 3 agents
3. Fix AI Moderator engine config (Codex → Copilot)
4. Investigate Agent of the Day Blog Writer retry loop
5. Monitor smoke cluster — if failures persist Jul 21, escalate to infra team

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Analysis period: 2026-07-08 to 2026-07-20 | Next report: ~2026-07-27
Data sources: GitHub Actions run history, shared memory, recent issues/PRs

References:

• §29745587435 — This run
• §28945138633 — Last Agent Performance run (Jul 8)
• §28919919125 — Workflow Health Manager (Jul 8)

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