Agent Performance Report - Week of 2026-08-29

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 20 (by run/issue volume, last 24h window + shared metrics)
• Total outputs reviewed: ~200 issues, 99 merged PRs, 11 open PRs sampled
• Average quality score: ~68/100 (est., high-quality deep-report/spec agents offsetting persistent-failure agents)
• Average effectiveness score: ~62/100 (est.)
• Top performers: Copilot SWE Agent (PR throughput, ~99 recent merges), Deep Report / DeepReport family (specific, actionable, non-duplicate findings), Spec Extractor/Enforcer, Instructions Janitor
• Needs improvement: AI Moderator, Metrics Collector, Code Scanning Fixer, Smoke-* cluster (cascade [aw] Failure cascade detected #56767)

Root-Cause Hygiene Correction (Important)

Re-verified every "pending fix" citation carried over in shared-alerts.md / agent-performance-latest.md (last updated ~Jul 8) against current GitHub state (2026-08-29):

Cited item	Status now	Verdict
PR #43527 (Q quality gate)	MERGED Jul 7	Stale — Q still shows AR today; gate did not fix it, re-diagnose
PR #44254 (CLI hang-on-exit)	MERGED Jul 9	Stale — no evidence of recurrence checked this run; drop citation
PR #44276 (sandbox EACCES)	MERGED Jul 9	Stale — drop citation
#38777 (CGO)	CLOSED Jul 20	Stale — CGO is a plain CI workflow (cgo.yml), not agentic; its action_required today is a GitHub Actions approval gate, not agent AR
#43925 (AI Moderator)	CLOSED Jul 7	Stale — AI Moderator is still failing today (8 action_required in last 100 runs); root cause has shifted, see below
#43335 (codex 404)	CLOSED Jul 4	Stale — do not keep citing as AI Moderator's cause
#43101, #43110	CLOSED Jul 3	Stale — drop
#42398 (Smoke CI EACCES)	CLOSED Jul 8	Stale — drop
#43102 (Doc Build Deploy)	CLOSED Jul 10	Stale — drop
#43292 (Metrics Collector)	CLOSED Jul 4	Stale — Metrics Collector is failing again today under a new root cause (push_repo_memory job, issue #56815), unrelated to the old citation

Action: All of the above have been removed from shared-alerts.md this run. Two prior workflows (Q, AI Moderator, Metrics Collector) are still unhealthy but for reasons different than what was recorded — memory was tracking resolved causes as if they explained live symptoms.

Command/Mention-Gated Workflows (Expected Behavior, Not Failures)

• Q (slash_command: q), Squad (slash_command: squad), Agentic Commands: wired to issues/issue_comment/discussion* events, so every repo event starts a run; pre_activation stops non-matching runs. Today: Agentic Commands 8 AR / 4 success in sample — AR here is the designed gate for non-command events, not activation-refused in the failure sense. Recommend the label change: report these as "command gating (expected)" going forward, and only alarm if the activated-run subset (matching command) shows failures.
• CGO, CWI: plain CI workflows (cgo.yml, CWI.yml), gated by GitHub Actions PR-approval requirements for fork/first-time contributors. action_required = maintainer approval pending, not an agent defect. Track separately as "CI approval-pending."

Current Real Issues (verified live, 2026-08-29)

1. AI Moderator — still shows action_required in 8 of last ~12 runs today. A new, more specific root cause is already tracked by Deep Report: issue [deep-report] Investigate AI Moderator multi-hour hangs (up to 13.6h) burning ~30 action-hours/day #56490 "Investigate AI Moderator multi-hour hangs (up to 13.6h) burning ~30 action-hours/day." This supersedes the old "codex 404" citation — engine is still codex per ai-moderator.md frontmatter, but the live symptom is a hang, not a 404. DO NOT re-cite the old codex-404 fix as resolving this.
2. Metrics Collector — actively failing again today (issue [aw] Failed jobs: Metrics Collector #56815, "Failed jobs: Metrics Collector," push_repo_memory job) and again on 08-28 ([aw] Failed jobs: Metrics Collector #56520) and 08-27. This explains why metrics/latest.json itself carries a collection_note about the agentic-workflows logs tool timing out and falling back to a GitHub API pagination workaround — the primary collection path is degraded, not just the push step. Recommend prioritizing a fix here since all three meta-orchestrators depend on this data.
3. Failure cascade [aw] Failure cascade detected #56767 — 10 [aw] * failed issues opened within 60 minutes on 2026-08-29 (Smoke Drive, Smoke Create/Update Cross-Repo PR, Smoke GitHub Claude, Smoke Gemini, Smoke Cursor, Chaus PR Bundle Fuzzer, Documentation Unbloat), auto-flagged as a likely shared root cause (infra/lockfile/provider outage). Still open, unresolved as of this run — needs an owner to investigate before more cascade-suspected issues accumulate.
4. Squad [squad:plan] volume — 16 open planning issues, mostly milestone breakdowns for 3 game projects (Hush Harvest, Neon Heist, Cindermark). This is a legitimate per-milestone issue-group pattern (Prototype/Vertical Slice/QA/Docs/Security per game), not duplication — no action needed, but worth confirming Squad's issue-group template isn't over-splitting (7 issues for a single game "Hush Harvest" today).

Behavioral Patterns

• Deep Report family: consistently specific, evidence-cited, actionable issues (e.g., [deep-report] Strip bot-footer signatures from prompt-clustering text cleaning before vectorization #56890 cites exact function/line, measured impact 5.5% of PRs, concrete regex fix, effort estimate). No over-creation, repetition, or scope-creep detected — best-practice template for issue quality other agents should emulate.
• AI Moderator: inconsistency — intermittently AR/skipped/AR with no clear pattern across observed 12 runs today; root cause now correctly tracked as a hang ([deep-report] Investigate AI Moderator multi-hour hangs (up to 13.6h) burning ~30 action-hours/day #56490), not codex 404.
• Metrics Collector: under-creation risk — its own collection pipeline is degraded (logs-tool timeout + fallback), which starves Agent Performance Analyzer, Campaign Manager, and Workflow Health Manager of clean primary-source data this cycle. This is a systemic dependency issue, not an isolated agent problem.
• Q / Agentic Commands / Squad: no pattern classification applies — high raw AR% is expected command-gating, not agent misbehavior.
• CGO / CWI: no pattern classification applies — CI approval-pending, not an agentic pattern.

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Fix Metrics Collector push_repo_memory job (issues [aw] Failed jobs: Metrics Collector #56815, [aw] Failed jobs: Metrics Collector #56520, recurring 3 days running) — this is the shared data backbone for all three meta-orchestrators; its degradation is why latest.json had to fall back to a slow GitHub API scan this cycle. Expected impact: restores primary metrics source, removes fallback overhead from every downstream analyzer run.
2. Investigate AI Moderator hang ([deep-report] Investigate AI Moderator multi-hour hangs (up to 13.6h) burning ~30 action-hours/day #56490) — supersedes old codex-404 fix; 30 action-hours/day is a meaningful cost. Expected impact: recover ~30 action-hours/day, eliminate AI Moderator's daily AR entries.
3. Assign an owner to failure cascade [aw] Failure cascade detected #56767 — 10 Smoke workflows failed within one hour with a suspected shared cause; unresolved could mask new distinct regressions under one rollup.

Medium Priority

1. Update shared-alerts.md bookkeeping practice: before restating any cited "pending fix," check gh issue view/gh pr view state — this run found 10 stale citations carried for weeks after their fixes merged/closed.
2. Reclassify Q / Agentic Commands / Squad reporting to separate "command gating (expected)" from true activation-refused, and CGO/CWI to "CI approval-pending" — avoids inflating agentic AR% ecosystem-wide.

Low Priority

1. Confirm Squad's per-milestone issue-group template isn't over-splitting single-game plans (7 issues for one game today) — likely fine, but worth a quick design check.

Trends

• Root-cause bookkeeping in shared memory had drifted for ~7 weeks (last verified Jul 8); this run's re-verification found 100% of "DO NOT RE-FILE, pending fix" citations sampled were already resolved and silently stale.
• Metrics Collector reliability is the most urgent new regression discovered this run (3 consecutive days of failures, degrading the whole analyzer stack).

Actions Taken This Run

• Corrected 10 stale root-cause citations in shared-alerts.md (merged PRs / closed issues no longer valid as "pending fix" explanations).
• Verified current AR% for AI Moderator, Q, Agentic Commands, Squad, CGO, CWI directly against live GitHub Actions run data rather than reusing old memory.
• No new issues filed — current real problems (AI Moderator hang, Metrics Collector failures, Smoke cascade) already have open, non-duplicate tracking issues ([deep-report] Investigate AI Moderator multi-hour hangs (up to 13.6h) burning ~30 action-hours/day #56490, [aw] Failed jobs: Metrics Collector #56815/[aw] Failed jobs: Metrics Collector #56520, [aw] Failure cascade detected #56767).

Next Steps

1. Prioritize Metrics Collector fix so future analyzer runs use primary data, not the slow API fallback.
2. Track AI Moderator hang fix landing and confirm AR% drops afterward.
3. Follow up on failure cascade [aw] Failure cascade detected #56767 ownership.
4. Re-verify shared-alerts citations against live GitHub state on every future run, not just at filing time.

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Analysis period: 2026-08-28 to 2026-08-29 (spot-verified against 7-week-old shared memory baseline)
Next report: 2026-09-05

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