Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-07-23

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Run: §30009821130 | Analysis: Jul 8–Jul 23

Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 22 active workflows (of 129 total)
• Total runs sampled (Jul 22–23): ~100 | Success: 27 (27%) | AR: 42 (42%) | Skipped: 16 | Cancelled: 3 | Failure: 1
• Quality score: ~60/100 (↓ from 63 on Jul 8)
• Effectiveness score: ~62/100 (↓ from 64 on Jul 8)
• Top performers: Copilot SWE Agent, Auto-Triage Issues, Agentic Maintenance, Issue Monster, Daily File Diet
• Needs improvement: Q Workflow, AI Moderator, Agentic Commands, Content Moderation, PR Code Quality Reviewer, Test Quality Sentinel, Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer, Impeccable Skills Reviewer, Design Decision Gate

⚠️ Key regression since Jul 8: Overall success rate dropped from 36% → 27%, AR rate climbed 41% → 42%. Content Moderation reverted from fully recovered to 100% AR today. PR #44254 (CLI hang fix) status unknown — critical to merge.

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Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. Copilot SWE Agent (Quality: 93/100, Effectiveness: 92/100)

   • 30 PRs merged Jul 22–23 — outstanding output velocity
   • Notable merges: no-err-stack-then-string-fallback eslint rule, yamllint validator, --syft container scan, grype vulnerability scanning, GitHub suggestion syntax in PR review comments
   • Consistent code quality; well-structured PRs with clear descriptions
   • Attribution: app/copilot-swe-agent (internal actor — not community traffic)

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

   • 100% success rate, consistent labeling and triage quality
   • Clean outputs with appropriate categorization

3. Agentic Maintenance (Quality: 83/100, Effectiveness: 82/100)

   • Stable 100% success; proactive codebase hygiene
   • Runs Jul 22–23: success both runs sampled

4. Issue Monster / Auto-Close Parent Issues (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 78/100)

   • Both running successfully in latest window
   • Reliable coordination outputs

5. Daily File Diet (Quality: 78/100, Effectiveness: 76/100)

   • Consistent success; efficient resource use

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

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

   • 100% skipped in Jul 22–23 window (persistent 0% effective success)
   • Root cause: quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 not yet merged — now 15+ days unresolved
   • Prompt deficiency: no self-assessment loop; runs continue with broken gate config
   • Action: Escalate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 merge as P0. DO NOT RE-FILE — [aw] Impeccable Skills Reviewer failed #43079, [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #43309 existing

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

   • Mix of skipped + AR today; Codex engine 404 persistent
   • Prompt deficiency: stale engine guidance (still configured for deprecated Codex alpha)
   • Action: Change engine to copilot. DO NOT RE-FILE — [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241, #aw_ai_mod_jul8 existing

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

   • Jul 22–23: 1 success, 4 AR (80% AR rate), consistent with 79% historical baseline
   • Persistent unresolved — [aw] Impeccable Skills Reviewer failed #43079 filed long ago
   • Prompt deficiency: generic task framing; no bounded retry logic; missing self-check for safe-output failures

4. Content Moderation (Quality: 55/100, Effectiveness: 50/100)

   • Regression: Was 5/5 success Jul 8 (fully recovered); now 100% AR Jul 22–23
   • Unstable — alternating between success and failure without config changes
   • Prompt deficiency: inconsistent behavior suggests missing deterministic guard on external content triggers

5. PR Code Quality Reviewer + Test Quality Sentinel (Quality: 38/100, Effectiveness: 35/100)

   • 100% AR — CLI hang-on-exit bug same as Impeccable Skills Reviewer
   • Fix: PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 (open). CRITICAL — merge this PR. DO NOT RE-FILE — #aw_pr_cq_tqs

6. Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer (Quality: 50/100, Effectiveness: 48/100)

   • 100% AR; deprecation candidate
   • Prompt deficiency: stale tool guidance (references removed skill infrastructure), generic output format
   • Recommendation: Deprecate — no unique value vs. other code review agents

7. Impeccable Skills Reviewer (Quality: 55/100, Effectiveness: 52/100)

   • CLI hang-on-exit; fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 open
   • Prompt deficiency: low-actionability outputs (verbose summaries without specific code changes)
   • Recommendation: After fix merges, redesign with actionability rubric (specific line-level suggestions required)

8. Design Decision Gate (Quality: 48/100, Effectiveness: 45/100)

   • 0% effective success; redesign/deprecation candidate
   • Prompt deficiency: generic task framing; no clear decision criteria or success definition; outputs not acted on
   • Recommendation: Redesign with explicit acceptance criteria checklist, or deprecate if coverage duplicated by PR triage

Inactive Agents

• Metrics Collector ([aw] Metrics Collector failed #43292): Engine failure — data stale since Jan 2026. Metrics infrastructure broken.
• Daily BYOK Ollama ([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): api-proxy 503, no recovery in sight.
• Smoke Copilot Sub Agents ([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): 100% red, long-running.

Quality & Effectiveness Analysis

Output Quality Distribution

• Excellent (80–100): 5 agents (Copilot SWE, Auto-Triage, Agentic Maintenance, PR Triage, Avenger)
• Good (60–79): 4 agents (Content Moderation when healthy, Smoke CI, CGO when stable, CWI)
• Fair (40–59): 5 agents (Agentic Commands, Impeccable, Matt Pocock, Design Decision Gate, Code Simplifier)
• Poor (<40): 8 agents (Q workflow, AI Moderator, PR Code Quality, Test Quality Sentinel, Daily Safe Output Integrator, Sub-Agent Model Resolution, BYOK Ollama, PR Sous Chef)

Common Quality Issues

1. CLI hang-on-exit: 4 agents (PR Code Quality, Test Quality Sentinel, Impeccable, Matt Pocock) — 100% AR; single fix (PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254) resolves 3 of them
2. Stale engine config: AI Moderator, Sub-Agent Model Resolution — Codex alpha 404; trivial engine swap fixes both
3. Persistent quality gate failure: Q Workflow — PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 blocked for 15+ days

PR Merge Analysis (Jul 22–23)

• 30 PRs merged in ~48h window, 27 by copilot-swe-agent (90%)
• Merge quality high: security improvements (container scanning, eslint hardening), docs, refactors
• 11 open PRs from copilot-swe-agent awaiting review (healthy queue depth)

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Copilot SWE Agent output velocity: Sustaining 10–15 merges/day with no quality regression
• Auto-Triage + Agentic Maintenance coordination: Clean handoff — triage labels feed maintenance prioritization
• Issue Monster → Auto-Close Parent Issues: Parent/child lifecycle working correctly

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• Content Moderation oscillation: Alternating success/failure on identical triggers — instability without config change suggests flaky external dependency or non-deterministic prompt behavior
• Q workflow prolonged gate failure (15+ days): Blocking improvement for 6+ weeks; institutional inertia on PR merge is magnifying agent downtime
• CLI hang-on-exit cluster (4 agents): Single infrastructure root cause producing compounding failure appearances; creates misleading AR counts

Bottom-10 Prompt Deficiency Audit

Agent	Q	Deficiency Categories
Q Workflow	25	Missing self-assessment loop; no graceful degradation
AI Moderator	35	Stale tool guidance (Codex alpha); no engine fallback
PR Code Quality Reviewer	38	Infrastructure bug (CLI hang); generic success criteria
Test Quality Sentinel	38	Infrastructure bug (CLI hang); no bounded retries
Design Decision Gate	48	Generic task framing; no decision rubric; low actionability
Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer	50	Stale examples; generic framing; low actionability
Code Simplifier	55	Generic framing; 60% success suggests inconsistent scope detection
Impeccable Skills Reviewer	55	Low-actionability outputs; infrastructure bug (CLI hang)
Daily yamllint Fixer	58	30% success — missing self-check before commit
Agentic Commands	40	Generic framing; no bounded retry; missing safe-output guard

Recommendations

High Priority 🚨

1. Merge PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 (CLI hang fix) — Unblocks 3–4 agents immediately (+20–30 quality pts each)
2. Merge PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 (Q workflow quality gate) — 15+ days blocked; 0% effective Q workflow success
3. Switch AI Moderator engine to copilot — trivial fix, restores 30–35 effectiveness points

Medium Priority ⚠️

4. Redesign Design Decision Gate — Add explicit acceptance criteria rubric; require ≥2 actionable outputs per run; otherwise deprecate
5. Deprecate Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer — No unique value; persistent 100% AR; stale guidance
6. Add deterministic guard to Content Moderation — Prevent oscillation; add explicit pre-run validation of content triggers
7. Repair Metrics Collector ([aw] Metrics Collector failed #43292) — Stale since Jan 2026; all trend analysis degraded without it

Low Priority

8. Improve Agentic Commands prompt — Add explicit bounded retry (max 3), safe-output pre-check
9. Add quality rubric to Impeccable Skills Reviewer — After CLI hang fix, require line-level suggestions vs. summary comments
10. Consolidate yamllint Fixer with Agentic Maintenance — 30% success rate; consider folding into maintenance workflow

Trends (Jul 8 → Jul 23)

Metric	Jul 8	Jul 23	Δ
Quality score	63/100	60/100	↓ -3
Effectiveness score	64/100	62/100	↓ -2
Health score	63/100	~58/100	↓ -5
Success rate	36%	27%	↓ -9%
AR rate	41%	42%	↓ -1%
PRs merged (window)	11/day Jul 8	~15/day Jul 22-23	↑ +4/day

Overall ecosystem health has declined slightly since Jul 8, primarily due to:

1. Content Moderation regression
2. No progress on critical PRs (fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254, Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527)
3. Metrics Collector still broken (no trend data)

Actions Taken This Run

• Generated performance discussion (this report)
• No new issues filed (all critical issues already tracked; see persistent list)
• Updated agent-performance-latest.md and shared-alerts.md

Next Steps

1. Merge PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 — single highest-leverage action in the ecosystem
2. Merge PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 — Q workflow blocked 15+ days
3. Investigate Content Moderation trigger flakiness (new regression since Jul 8)
4. Repair Metrics Collector engine to restore trend data
5. Review Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer and Design Decision Gate for deprecation

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Analysis period: 2026-07-08 to 2026-07-23 | Next report: ~2026-07-30
References: §30009821130 | §28945138633 | §28919919125

Generated by ⚡ Agent Performance Analyzer - Meta-Orchestrator · sonnet46 52 AIC · ⌖ 10.2 AIC · ⊞ 10.6K · ◷

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