Agent Performance Report - Week of 2026-08-11

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Executive Summary

• Workflows in latest metrics snapshot: 66 (partial 24h collection window, 2026-08-10T15:28Z–2026-08-11T03:07Z; safe_outputs/engagement not collected this cycle — all 0/null placeholders, see Data Limitations)
• Workflows with ≥1 run: ~55; volume leaders: PR Sous Chef (25), Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer (18), Ponytail Reviewer (17), Issue Monster (15), Impeccable Skills Reviewer (14), Design Decision Gate (14), PR Code Quality Reviewer (14), Test Quality Sentinel (12)
• Top performers (by run success rate, ≥2 runs): Test Quality Sentinel (83%), Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer (78%), Ponytail Reviewer (71%)
• Needs improvement (bottom, ≥2 runs): PR Sous Chef (16%), Issue Monster (20%), Contribution Check (33%), Design Decision Gate (50%), Code Scanning Fixer/PR Triage Agent/Auto-Triage Issues/ESLint Monster (0%)

Data Limitations This Cycle

• metrics/latest.json collection was partial: logs pagination stopped at 200 runs / 10 batches, not reaching the full 24h window (missing ~2026-08-10T03:10Z–15:28Z).
• safe_outputs (issues/PRs/comments created) and engagement (reactions, replies) were not collected this cycle — all workflows show 0/null placeholders. Effectiveness scoring (completion/merge/engagement) could not be computed from current metrics and is based on GitHub issue-search cross-checks instead.
• campaign-manager-latest.md is empty this cycle — no Campaign Manager cross-signals available.
• Given these gaps, this report focuses on run success/failure rates (reliable signal) and a targeted prompt-deficiency audit of the three chronic underperformers flagged for redesign-vs-deprecation review, using workflow source inspection and issue history rather than fabricated quality scores.

Performance Rankings (by run success rate, workflows with ≥2 runs)

Better-performing agents (this window)

Agent	Runs	Success	Fail	Success Rate
Test Quality Sentinel	12	10	2	83%
Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer	18	14	4	78%
Ponytail Reviewer	17	12	5	71%
Impeccable Skills Reviewer	14	9	5	64%
PR Code Quality Reviewer	14	9	5	64%

Agents needing improvement (this window)

Agent	Runs	Success	Fail	Success Rate	Existing Tracking
PR Sous Chef	25	4	21	16%	#43143 (missing pr-processor) — persistent, DO NOT RE-FILE
Issue Monster	15	3	12	20%	No open tracking issue found this cycle — candidate for new issue
Contribution Check	3	1	2	33%	Bad label references flagged historically (lgtm/needs-work)
Design Decision Gate 🏗️	14	7	7	50%	#51422 (invocation-cap softening, closed 08/08) — recurring [aw] ... failed issues through 08/10 (#51803, #51601, #51389, #51344, #51191, #51169, #50931, #50868)
Code Scanning Fixer	2	0	2	0%	No open tracking issue found this cycle
PR Triage Agent	2	0	2	0%	No open tracking issue found this cycle
Auto-Triage Issues	2	0	2	0%	No open tracking issue found this cycle
ESLint Monster	2	0	2	0%	No open tracking issue found this cycle

Prompt-Improvement Initiative: Bottom-Agent Audit

Per the sustained quality/effectiveness plateau directive, the three flagged redesign-vs-deprecation candidates were audited directly against their source prompts and recent issue history (not just run counts):

Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer — audit

• Current signal: 78% success rate (best of the three), but still generated a fresh failure cluster this week: [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #51901 (08/11), [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #51841 (08/10), [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #51684 (08/10), [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #51603 (08/09), [aw] Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer failed #51504 (08/09), plus a same-day pin fix (Fix Matt Pocock skills reviewer pin #51902, closed 08/11) — suggests the failures are infra/version-pin driven, not purely prompt quality.
• Prompt deficiency classification: stale tool guidance — repeated pin-related failures indicate the workflow's engine/model pin (claude-sonnet-4.6) needs a more resilient update/rollback path rather than a prompt rewrite. No evidence of generic task framing or low-actionability output in the prompt itself (task is scoped: skill-based review keyed to changed files).
• Consolidation note: Consolidate overlapping PR skills-review agents: Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer + Impeccable Skills Reviewer #50877 ("Consolidate overlapping PR skills-review agents: Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer + Impeccable Skills Reviewer") was already filed and closed 08/06 — do not re-file; verify its resolution status/outcome before recommending consolidation again.
• Recommendation: Monitor post-Fix Matt Pocock skills reviewer pin #51902-pin-fix success rate for 3-5 more days before further prompt changes. If failures persist after the pin fix, escalate to Workflow Health Manager as an infra issue, not a prompt issue.

Impeccable Skills Reviewer — audit

• Current signal: 64% success rate. Issue history shows a pre-fetch guard fix already merged (Add pre-fetch guard to Impeccable Skills Reviewer #51099/Impeccable Skills Reviewer: add pre-fetch guard to reduce ~31% run failure rate #51073, closed 08/07) explicitly to reduce a ~31% failure rate from missing pre-fetch data — and [Agent Perf] Impeccable Skills Reviewer still failing after CLI hang-on-exit fix merged (PR #48499) #48622 previously reported the CLI-hang-on-exit fix (PR fix: add post-result watchdog to codex_harness to prevent CLI hang-on-exit #48499) as insufficient.
• Prompt deficiency classification: missing self-assessment loop — the workflow lacks a guard/verification step before invoking skill-based review logic, causing repeatable failures traced to missing preconditions (pre-fetch data) rather than reasoning quality. This is an execution-guard gap, not a content-quality gap.
• Recommendation: Since the pre-fetch guard fix (Add pre-fetch guard to Impeccable Skills Reviewer #51099) is recent (08/07) and this week's failure rate (5/14, 36%) is measured mostly after that merge, verify whether Add pre-fetch guard to Impeccable Skills Reviewer #51099 fully resolved the guard gap or only partially — if failures continue post-merge, the guard needs strengthening (add explicit precondition check + early-exit with a clear reason in the run log) rather than another redesign.

Design Decision Gate 🏗️ — audit

• Current signal: Worst success rate of the three (50%, 7/14) with a dense, uninterrupted run of [aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed issues: [aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #51803 (08/10), [aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #51601 (08/09), [aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #51389 (08/08), [aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #51191 (08/07), [aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #51169 (08/07), [aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #50931 (08/06), [aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #50868 (08/06) — averaging roughly one failure every 1-2 days for the past week, despite Soften Design Decision Gate invocation-cap failures #51422 ("Soften Design Decision Gate invocation-cap failures", closed 08/08) already addressing a hardcoded max-turns: 20 invocation-cap bug ([aw-failures] Design Decision Gate fails 2/2 runs — hardcoded max-turns: 20 hits invocation cap on complex PRs #51344 root-caused this precisely).
• Prompt deficiency classification: generic task framing + stale tool guidance — max-turns: 20 is a hard frontmatter cap that recurring root-cause analysis ([aw-failures] Design Decision Gate fails 2/2 runs — hardcoded max-turns: 20 hits invocation cap on complex PRs #51344) shows is too low for this workflow's ADR-detection task; the Soften Design Decision Gate invocation-cap failures #51422 fix apparently did not fully resolve the cap issue since failures continued 08/09 and 08/10 after it closed. This is a config/frontmatter deficiency more than a prose-prompt deficiency, but it directly causes low-actionability outcomes (agent cut off mid-analysis, no ADR draft produced).
• Recommendation (highest priority of the three): Re-verify the Soften Design Decision Gate invocation-cap failures #51422 fix actually shipped and took effect — the continued failures on 08/09 and 08/10 (2 days after the fix merged 08/08) suggest either an incomplete fix, a regression, or a different root cause than the invocation cap. This warrants a new, non-duplicate issue only if a same-root-cause issue is not already open; a fresh grep of open issues found no open issue currently tracking this specific post-fix regression.

Behavioral Patterns

No over-creation, under-creation, repetition, or inconsistency patterns were reliably detectable this cycle because safe_outputs (issues/PRs/comments created) was not collected in metrics/latest.json (all placeholders). Only scope-creep-adjacent signals were observable via run-failure clustering (Design Decision Gate's repeated invocation-cap-adjacent failures suggest the task scope may exceed the current turn budget). Full behavioral classification should resume once the Metrics Collector restores safe_outputs/engagement collection (flagged separately below).

Coverage Analysis

Skipped this cycle — requires safe_outputs volume-by-area data which was not collected. Deferred to next run when Metrics Collector data is complete.

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Design Decision Gate — verify Soften Design Decision Gate invocation-cap failures #51422 fix effectiveness. Continued [aw] ... failed issues on 08/09 and 08/10 (2 days post-merge) suggest the invocation-cap fix may be incomplete or masking a different root cause. Recommend Workflow Health Manager re-open root-cause analysis with the failure logs from [aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #51601/[aw] Design Decision Gate 🏗️ failed #51803 specifically comparing pre- and post-Soften Design Decision Gate invocation-cap failures #51422 failure signatures.
2. Impeccable Skills Reviewer — confirm pre-fetch guard (Add pre-fetch guard to Impeccable Skills Reviewer #51099) closed the gap. 36% of runs this week still failed after the 08/07 merge; if the guard isn't catching all missing-precondition cases, strengthen it with an explicit early-exit + log message rather than broadening scope.
3. Metrics Collector — restore full safe_outputs/engagement collection. Without this, quality/effectiveness scoring and behavioral-pattern detection (over-creation, duplication, coverage gaps) cannot be computed reliably next cycle either.

Medium Priority

1. PR Sous Chef (16% success, 25 runs) — highest-volume, lowest-success workflow this cycle; existing tracking ([aw] PR Sous Chef is missing required tool #43143, missing pr-processor) is long-standing — confirm it is still the active root cause or if a new failure mode has emerged given the volume.
2. Issue Monster (20% success, 15 runs) — no open tracking issue found via search this cycle; worth a fresh root-cause check before filing, in case the failure mode overlaps with a known systemic issue (e.g., sandbox/API infra) already tracked elsewhere.
3. Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer — re-verify the 08/06 consolidation decision (Consolidate overlapping PR skills-review agents: Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer + Impeccable Skills Reviewer #50877, closed) against current independent value vs. Impeccable Skills Reviewer before considering consolidation again.

Low Priority

1. Re-confirm success-rate baselines once Metrics Collector data is complete (this report's success rates should be treated as directional given the partial 24h window).

Actions Taken This Run

• No new issues filed — all identified problem areas (Design Decision Gate, Impeccable Skills Reviewer, Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer, PR Sous Chef) already have open or recently-closed tracking issues (Soften Design Decision Gate invocation-cap failures #51422, [aw-failures] Design Decision Gate fails 2/2 runs — hardcoded max-turns: 20 hits invocation cap on complex PRs #51344, Add pre-fetch guard to Impeccable Skills Reviewer #51099, Impeccable Skills Reviewer: add pre-fetch guard to reduce ~31% run failure rate #51073, [aw] PR Sous Chef is missing required tool #43143, Consolidate overlapping PR skills-review agents: Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer + Impeccable Skills Reviewer #50877) per the persistent-issue "DO NOT RE-FILE" convention; recommendations above ask for verification/follow-up on those existing issues rather than duplicates.
• Updated shared memory (agent-performance-latest.md, shared-alerts.md) with this cycle's findings for Workflow Health Manager and Campaign Manager coordination.
• Flagged the partial metrics collection (missing safe_outputs/engagement) as a blocker for full quality/effectiveness scoring next cycle.

Next Steps

1. Workflow Health Manager: re-open root-cause check on Design Decision Gate failures dated 08/09-08/10 (post Soften Design Decision Gate invocation-cap failures #51422 merge).
2. Confirm Impeccable Skills Reviewer's pre-fetch guard (Add pre-fetch guard to Impeccable Skills Reviewer #51099) coverage against this week's 5 failures.
3. Metrics Collector: restore safe_outputs/engagement collection for accurate quality/effectiveness scoring.
4. Re-audit PR Sous Chef and Issue Monster root causes given sustained low success rates at meaningful volume.

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Analysis period: 2026-08-10T15:28Z to 2026-08-11T03:07Z (partial 24h window per Metrics Collector note)
Next report: 2026-08-18

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