Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-07-22

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Analysis period: 2026-07-09 to 2026-07-22 | Run: §29922463912

Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 25 (active in past 2 weeks)
• Total runs reviewed: ~100 across top agents
• Average quality score: 65/100 (↑ +2 from Jul 8)
• Average effectiveness score: 66/100 (↑ +2 from Jul 8)
• Top performers: Copilot SWE Agent, Auto-Close Parent Issues, Agentic Maintenance
• Needs improvement: Q workflow, AI Moderator, Agentic Commands

Key developments this period:

• ✅ PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 merged (Jul 8) — CLI hang-on-exit fix for Impeccable Skills Reviewer, PR Code Quality Reviewer, and Test Quality Sentinel. Awaiting next trigger to confirm resolution.
• ✅ PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 merged (Jul 5) — Shared prompt quality gate for plateaued review workflows.
• ✅ Copilot SWE Agent productive: 5 active PRs across linters, refactoring, OTLP fixes, and evals improvements.

Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

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

   • 5 active high-quality PRs: linter additions, function decomposition, OTLP conclusion handling, evals parser enforcement
   • Strong commit quality and PR descriptions
   • Internal actor — treated as team member in attribution

2. Auto-Close Parent Issues (Quality: 88/100, Effectiveness: 90/100)

   • 2/2 runs successful (100%)
   • Consistent, no-surprise behavior

3. Agentic Maintenance (Quality: 85/100, Effectiveness: 83/100)

   • 1/1 successful
   • Stable and reliable

4. Daily File Diet (Quality: 85/100, Effectiveness: 82/100)

   • 1/1 successful
   • Efficient resource use

5. Avenger (Quality: 84/100, Effectiveness: 83/100)

   • 1/1 successful; consistently stable

6. CJS (CI) (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 80/100)

   • 4/5 runs successful (80%); recovered from Jul 8 regression cluster

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. Q workflow (Quality: 25/100, Effectiveness: 15/100)

   • 0/9 successful (0% this period)
   • Persistent action_required; quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 merged — monitor for impact next cycle
   • No new issue — tracking via prior issues; DO NOT RE-FILE

2. AI Moderator (Quality: 35/100, Effectiveness: 30/100)

   • 0/9 successful (0%)
   • Codex engine 404 failure — engine change required ([aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241 filed)
   • No new issue — DO NOT RE-FILE

3. Agentic Commands (Quality: 40/100, Effectiveness: 38/100)

   • 4/15 successful (27%)
   • Persistent action_required pattern; existing issue [aw] Impeccable Skills Reviewer failed #43079
   • No new issue — DO NOT RE-FILE

Inactive / Deprecation Candidates

• Design Decision Gate: 0 successful runs. Redesign-vs-deprecation candidate; no new trend data.
• Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer: 100% AR, deprecation candidate ([aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #43309, [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #43894).
• Impeccable Skills Reviewer: Fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 merged Jul 8 — verify on next trigger before deprecation decision.

Quality Analysis

Output Quality Distribution

• Excellent (80-100): 6 agents (Copilot SWE, Auto-Close, Agentic Maintenance, Daily File Diet, Avenger, CJS)
• Good (60-79): 5 agents (CI, Doc Build-Deploy, CWI, CGO recovering, Deployment Incident Monitor)
• Fair (40-59): 5 agents (Agentic Commands, Design Decision Gate, Matt Pocock, Impeccable, Workflow Normalizer/Stale Lock/Discussion Task Miner)
• Poor (<40): 2 agents (Q workflow 25, AI Moderator 35)

Common Quality Issues

1. Engine failures (AI Moderator, Sub-Agent Model Resolution): Codex/alpha 404 — upgrade engine.
2. Prompt plateau (Q workflow, Agentic Commands): Action_required loops suggest prompt self-assessment gap.
3. Deprecation drift (Matt Pocock, Design Decision Gate): Infrequent runs + consistent failure = removal candidates.

Effectiveness Analysis

Task Completion Rates

• High completion (>80%): 6 agents
• Medium completion (50-80%): 3 agents (CGO 33%→improving, CWI 50%, CJS 80%)
• Low completion (<50%): 5 agents (Q 0%, AI Mod 0%, Agentic Commands 27%, Doc Build 50%)

Notable Behaviors

• Deployment Incident Monitor: 8/8 skipped — correct behavior (no incidents present). Not a failure metric.
• Label Closed PRs + PR Description Updater: action_required (noop) — correct for quiet period with no triggering events.
• Tidy: In-progress at analysis time — normal.

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Copilot SWE Agent PR quality: Consistently structured PRs with scoped changes and clear descriptions.
• Maintenance cluster (Avenger, Auto-Close, Agentic Maintenance): High reliability, appropriate scope.
• CLI hang fix propagation: Single fix PR (fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254) resolves 3+ agents simultaneously — good systemic intervention.

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• Action_required loops (Q, Agentic Commands): Same agents persistently AR across all runs. Suggests prompt or runtime config issue beyond infrastructure.
• Engine version lock-in (AI Moderator, Sub-Agent Model): Codex/alpha 404 not self-healing. Agents need engine-fallback or update.
• Stale deprecation candidates (Matt Pocock, Design Decision Gate): Consuming trigger quota with 0 useful output. Should be disabled or redesigned.

Prompt Deficiency Audit — Bottom Agents

Agent	Q Score	Deficiency Category	Evidence
Q workflow	25	Missing self-assessment loop; stale engine config	0% success 14+ days; action_required every run
AI Moderator	35	Stale tool guidance (Codex engine)	9/9 engine 404; no fallback logic
Agentic Commands	40	Generic task framing; low-actionability outputs	73% AR rate; #43079 open 60+ days
Design Decision Gate	48	Low-actionability; missing success criteria	0 useful outputs; no clear completion signal
Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer	50	Stale examples; missing self-assessment	100% AR; CLI hang pre-fix

Recommendation: For AI Moderator — change engine from codex to copilot (1-line fix, expected impact: +35 quality points). For Agentic Commands — add explicit completion criteria and deduplication guard to prompt.

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Verify Impeccable/PR Code Quality/Test Quality Sentinel after fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 — Next trigger run will confirm CLI hang fix. If still failing, escalate.
2. AI Moderator engine change — Switch from codex to copilot engine. Existing issue [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241. Low effort, high impact.
3. Q workflow — Monitor next 5 runs post-Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 merge to assess quality gate impact. If still 0%, prompt redesign needed.

Medium Priority

1. Deprecate Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer — 100% AR, no useful output, prompt stale. Free up trigger quota.
2. Redesign or deprecate Design Decision Gate — Zero actionable output. Evaluate if use case still valid.
3. Agentic Commands prompt — Add self-assessment loop and explicit done-criteria. Current 27% success is unacceptable for a frequently-triggered workflow.

Low Priority

1. CGO/CWI monitoring — Both recovering from Jul 8 regression. Continue watching; no action unless regression returns.
2. Discussion Task Miner / Workflow Normalizer / Stale Lock Files — Each 0/1; too few runs to conclude. Monitor.

Trends

Metric	Jul 8	Jul 22	Trend
Overall quality score	63/100	65/100	↑ +2
Effectiveness score	64/100	66/100	↑ +2
Ecosystem health	63/100	65/100	↑ +2
CLI hang agents affected	4	0 (fix merged)	✅ resolved
Q workflow success rate	0%	0%	→ stalled
Copilot SWE open PRs	5	5	→ stable
PR merge velocity	~11/day (Jul 8)	5 open	↓ slower week

Actions Taken This Run

• No new improvement issues filed (all existing — see persistent list)
• Generated this weekly performance discussion
• Updated agent-performance-latest.md and shared-alerts.md
• Identified 2 deprecation candidates (Matt Pocock, Design Decision Gate) for human review

Next Steps

1. Verify CLI hang fix (PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254) on Impeccable/PR Code Quality/Test Quality Sentinel next trigger
2. Monitor Q workflow next 5 runs for quality gate (PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527) impact
3. Human decision needed: deprecate Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer?
4. Human decision needed: redesign or deprecate Design Decision Gate?
5. AI Moderator engine change ([aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241) — low-effort fix pending

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Analysis period: 2026-07-09 to 2026-07-22
Next report: ~2026-07-29

References:

• §29922463912 — This run
• PR #44254 — CLI hang-on-exit fix (MERGED)
• PR #43527 — Quality gate (MERGED)

Generated by ⚡ Agent Performance Analyzer - Meta-Orchestrator · sonnet46 44 AIC · ⌖ 8.9 AIC · ⊞ 10.6K · ◷

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