Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-07-31

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Agent Performance Report — 2026-07-31

Executive Summary

• Analysis window: last run was 2026-07-08 (23-day gap; shared metrics collector has been broken since Jan 2026 — metrics/latest.json is stale/partial). This report is built from live gh api queries since pre-loaded metrics were unusable.
• Today's run volume (2026-07-31, last ~13h): 100 runs sampled → 24 success (24%), 43 action_required (43%), 22 skipped (22%), 1 cancelled.
• Copilot SWE Agent (code-authoring bot) remains highly active: 23 PRs merged in the last 24h alone; ~30 PRs opened in the last 7 days.
• Good news: the P0 "CLI hang-on-exit" systemic issue tracked since Jul 8 (fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254) is merged and resolved — the three previously-100%-AR review agents have recovered.

Top Performers

Agent	Evidence	Status
Copilot SWE Agent	23 PRs merged in 24h (docs updates, CVE patches, bug fixes, ESLint rules, agent-config fixes)	Active ✅ high throughput
Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer	13/14 runs success today (was 100% AR on Jul 8)	Fully recovered ✅ — deprecation flag from Jul 8 should be lifted
Impeccable Skills Reviewer	13/14 success today (was recurring engine-crash AR)	Fully recovered ✅
Design Decision Gate	13/14 success today (was 100% AR)	Fully recovered ✅ — however 2 fresh 2026-07-30/31 failure issues (#49144, #49096, #49271) show a new distinct failure mode (see below)

Root cause of recovery: PR #44254 (merged 2026-07-08) — "reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit" — fixed all four PR-review agents (Impeccable, Matt Pocock, Design Decision Gate, PR Code Quality/Test Quality Sentinel cluster) simultaneously. This confirms the shared-infra root-cause diagnosis from the Jul 8 report was correct and the fix was effective.

Agents Needing Improvement

Agent	Today's data	Issue
Agentic Commands	9 AR / 16 runs (56%)	Persistent AR pattern, unchanged for 3+ weeks — still no confirmed fix landed
CWI / CGO	6 AR each today	CI-approval-gate workflows (see note below), not agent quality issues
AI Moderator	3 AR, 7 skipped (0 success) today	Still not producing outputs; earlier Codex-404 diagnosis appears unresolved
Q workflow	2 AR, 7 skipped	Same persistent pattern as Jul 8 report; quality-gate PR #43527 status unconfirmed this run
Design Decision Gate (new mode)	3 fresh failure/AR issues in <36h (#49144 pre-fetch step failure, #49096 LLM-cap exhaustion on shell-expanded paths, #49271 today's AR) despite the watchdog fix landing	New regression — argument/path-expansion bug distinct from the hang-on-exit issue; needs its own fix

CI approval-pending note: CWI, CGO, and CJS are CI workflows, not agentic. Their action_required conclusions reflect GitHub Actions permission gates awaiting maintainer approval of Copilot-authored PR runs, not agent failures. Recommend approving pending Copilot-bot workflow runs at the org/PR level rather than treating as an agent defect.

Prompt Improvement Audit — Design Decision Gate (regression candidate)

• Deficiency category: stale examples/tool guidance — the workflow still assumes shell-expanded file-path arguments are safe, which recent runs show exhausts the LLM invocation cap on retries when permission is denied ([aw-failures] Design Decision Gate exhausts LLM invocation cap after permission-denied retries on shell-expanded file paths #49096) and fails before the agent even starts due to a broken PR-context pre-fetch step ([aw-failures] Design Decision Gate: 'Pre-fetch ADR gate PR context' step fails before agent starts #49144).
• Evidence: 3 failure-tracking issues opened in the last 36 hours ([aw-failures] Design Decision Gate: 'Pre-fetch ADR gate PR context' step fails before agent starts #49144, [aw-failures] Design Decision Gate exhausts LLM invocation cap after permission-denied retries on shell-expanded file paths #49096) plus a live AR run today ([aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #49271), all after the underlying CLI-hang fix had already landed — confirming this is a new, separate defect, not a residual of the July issue.
• Recommendation: Patch the pre-fetch step to avoid shell path expansion (quote/array-based invocation) and add a fast-fail guard instead of retry-until-cap-exhausted behavior. Do not re-diagnose as the hang-on-exit issue.

Trends vs. Jul 8 Baseline

• Three of the six agents on the Jul 8 "deprecation candidate" watchlist (Matt Pocock, Impeccable, Design Decision Gate) have recovered to ~93% success — remove deprecation flag, but Design Decision Gate needs a new targeted fix for the path-expansion regression.
• Agentic Commands and Q workflow show no improvement over 23 days — these remain the top unresolved systemic issues.
• Metrics Collector / shared metrics infrastructure has been broken since January 2026 (collection_status: partial, note says "no GitHub API access during collection"). This materially degrades every meta-orchestrator's ability to do trend analysis from pre-loaded data and had to be worked around this run with live API queries.

Recommendations

High priority:

1. Fix Design Decision Gate's PR-context pre-fetch step to avoid unsafe shell path expansion (root cause of [aw-failures] Design Decision Gate: 'Pre-fetch ADR gate PR context' step fails before agent starts #49144/[aw-failures] Design Decision Gate exhausts LLM invocation cap after permission-denied retries on shell-expanded file paths #49096/[aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #49271) — separate from the already-fixed hang-on-exit issue.
2. Investigate why Metrics Collector's daily snapshot has been stale since January — this blocks trend-based analysis for all three meta-orchestrators (Agent Performance, Campaign Manager, Workflow Health).
3. Re-examine Agentic Commands' persistent ~56% AR rate — no fix has landed in 3+ weeks despite repeated flagging.

Medium priority:

1. Confirm AI Moderator's Codex-engine-404 issue is still unresolved and consider switching it to the Copilot engine as previously recommended.
2. Clarify Q workflow's quality-gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 merge status — unconfirmed this cycle.

Actions Taken This Run

• Verified and closed out the recovery status of 3 previously-flagged deprecation candidates (Matt Pocock, Impeccable, Design Decision Gate) using live run data.
• Identified a new, distinct regression in Design Decision Gate (shell-path-expansion / pre-fetch failure) that requires separate remediation from the resolved hang-on-exit fix.
• Flagged the 23-day-stale Metrics Collector as a blocking dependency for future analysis runs — filing as a systemic issue below.

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Analysis period: 2026-07-08 (last successful memory update) to 2026-07-31 (live query, since shared metrics were unusable)
Data source note: metrics/latest.json is stale (Jan 2026, partial); this report relied on direct gh api queries for current data.

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