Agent Performance Report - Week of 2026-08-23

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Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-08-23

Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 10 (top by volume/prior-flagged issues) of 247 tracked workflows
• Data source: metrics/latest.json (24h window, 2026-08-21→22, GitHub API fallback — Actions log tool timed out) + live gh run list spot-checks (2026-08-23) + shared memory (agent-performance-latest.md, shared-alerts.md, workflow-health-latest.md)
• Top performers (recovered): PR Code Quality Reviewer, Test Quality Sentinel, Impeccable Skills Reviewer, Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer, Design Decision Gate — all now 80–83% success (was 0% / 100% AR in early July)
• Needs improvement: AI Moderator (3.6–4% success), CGO (23.1% success, CI workflow), Q (0.8% success / persistent AR)

Performance Rankings

Recovered / Stable ✅

1. PR Code Quality Reviewer — 83% success (53 runs, 24h) — CLI hang-on-exit fix (PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254, merged Jul 8) resolved the prior 100% AR cluster. Confirms fix landed and held for 6+ weeks.
2. Test Quality Sentinel — 80% success (56 runs) — same fix, same recovery pattern.
3. Impeccable Skills Reviewer — 83% success (53 runs) — recovered.
4. Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer — 81.5% success (54 runs) — recovered; earlier deprecation-candidate flag in shared memory is now stale and should be retired.
5. Design Decision Gate — 80.8% success (52 runs) — recovered from 100% AR; separate open issue [aw-failures] [P1] Design Decision Gate: create_issue fails 'Resource not accessible by integration' on copilot/* PR branches #54898 tracks a distinct "Resource not accessible by integration" create_issue failure on copilot/* branches — legitimate, keep open.

Needs Improvement 📉

1. AI Moderator — 3.6% success (10/279, 24h metrics), live spot-check confirms 28 AR / 60 recent runs (47%), 30 skipped, only 2 success. Tracked by open issue [deep-report] Verify ai-moderator Copilot-engine switch was applied #54941 ("Verify ai-moderator Copilot-engine switch was applied") — the engine-switch fix referenced in old shared-alerts notes has not resolved the failure; those "Codex engine 404, fix: switch to copilot" notes in shared memory are stale and should be replaced with a note that [deep-report] Verify ai-moderator Copilot-engine switch was applied #54941 is investigating why the switch didn't fix it.
2. CGO — 23.1% success (55/238, 24h), CI workflow (not agentic). Already tracked by open issue [deep-report] Escalate cgo workflow regression to 29.3% success (~29min avg runtime) #54940 (escalated regression, ~29min avg runtime). No new issue needed; consistent with policy of reporting CI action_required/failures separately from agentic AR.
3. Q (slash-command workflow) — 0.8% success (2/261 in 24h metrics); live spot-check: 24 AR / 60 (40%), 36 skipped (60%, expected command-gating). The 40% AR rate is not gating — it's real activation failure. Shared memory attributes this to "quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 not yet merged," but PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 merged 2026-07-05 — that root cause is stale and the AR rate hasn't improved since. Needs re-diagnosis from current run logs/permissions rather than restating the old note. No pre-existing open issue found specifically for this; recommend Workflow Health Manager open one after log inspection (network/log access was unavailable during this run — see Access Notes).

Behavioral Patterns

• PR Code Quality Reviewer, Test Quality Sentinel, Impeccable Skills Reviewer, Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer, Design Decision Gate: no problematic pattern — inconsistency only in the sense of a resolved historical incident (mid-July CLI-hang cluster), now stable.
• AI Moderator: inconsistency — success rate has not stabilized after a claimed fix; behavior flips between skip/AR/rare-success without a clear trigger.
• Q: under-creation combined with inconsistency — near-zero successful completions despite non-trivial invocation volume; stale root-cause attribution in shared memory compounds this (old fix presumed complete, no verification loop).
• CGO: out of scope for agent behavior patterns (CI workflow, not an agentic workflow) — already owned by issue [deep-report] Escalate cgo workflow regression to 29.3% success (~29min avg runtime) #54940.

Root-Cause Hygiene Findings

• Removed/flagged as stale: "Q workflow AR — quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 not yet merged" (PR merged 2026-07-05, ~7 weeks ago, no improvement since — re-diagnosis needed, not a re-file).
• Removed/flagged as stale: "AI Moderator — Codex engine 404, fix: switch to copilot engine" (issue [deep-report] Verify ai-moderator Copilot-engine switch was applied #54941 already reopened this exact question on 2026-08-23, confirming the switch either wasn't applied or didn't fix it).
• Confirmed resolved (safe to retire from active watch list): CLI hang-on-exit cluster (Impeccable/PR Code Quality/Test Quality Sentinel/Matt Pocock) — fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 merged and held for 6+ weeks; "100% AR" and "deprecation candidate" labels for these agents in shared-alerts.md are outdated.

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Q workflow (0.8% success): Re-diagnose from current run logs/permissions (not the stale PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 note). Expected impact: identify real blocker behind persistent AR.
2. AI Moderator (3.6% success): Follow up on open issue [deep-report] Verify ai-moderator Copilot-engine switch was applied #54941 — verify whether the Copilot-engine switch was actually deployed; if deployed and still failing, escalate root cause beyond "engine choice."

Medium Priority

3. Update shared-alerts.md / agent-performance-latest.md: remove the five skill-reviewer agents from "deprecation candidate" / "100% AR" status now that they've held ≥80% success for multiple weeks; retain [aw-failures] [P1] Design Decision Gate: create_issue fails 'Resource not accessible by integration' on copilot/* PR branches #54898 (unrelated permission bug) as the only open item for Design Decision Gate.

Access Notes

• agentic-workflows log retrieval and gh run view --json jobs intermittently failed with "error connecting to api.github.com" during this run (transient network issue), limiting deeper log inspection for Q's AR root cause. Live gh run list summaries were still obtainable and used in place of full log analysis.

Next Steps

1. Track whether [deep-report] Verify ai-moderator Copilot-engine switch was applied #54941 (AI Moderator) and [deep-report] Escalate cgo workflow regression to 29.3% success (~29min avg runtime) #54940 (CGO) close with a verified fix, not just a status comment.
2. Re-diagnose Q's AR root cause in a future run once log access is stable; open a new issue only after confirming it isn't already covered by [copilot-opt] Investigate high action_required rate blocking automation workflows #53449 ("Investigate high action_required rate blocking automation workflows").
3. Clean stale entries from shared-alerts.md per Root-Cause Hygiene Findings above.

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Analysis period: 2026-08-21 to 2026-08-23 (24h metrics window + live spot-check)
Next report: 2026-08-30

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The following domains were blocked by the firewall during workflow execution:

• accounts.google.com
• android.clients.google.com
• clients2.google.com
• contentautofill.googleapis.com
• www.google.com
• www.gstatic.com

To allow these domains, add them to the network.allowed list in your workflow frontmatter:

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "accounts.google.com"
    - "android.clients.google.com"
    - "clients2.google.com"
    - "contentautofill.googleapis.com"
    - "www.google.com"
    - "www.gstatic.com"

See Network Configuration for more information.

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