Agent Performance Report - Week of 2026-09-05

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Executive Summary

• Data freshness caveat: the only available metrics snapshot is metrics/latest.json, timestamped 2026-09-01T02:50:27Z (4+ days stale as of this run). metrics-collector itself shows 0 executed runs in its own snapshot — it is not refreshing daily as designed. This report is based on that stale snapshot plus direct verification of prior-cycle "DO NOT RE-FILE" claims against live PR state.
• Agents analyzed: 41 active workflows with metrics entries (0 outputs for most — see caveat below)
• Total safe outputs in snapshot window: issues: 0, PRs: 0, comments: 4 (all from pr-sous-chef), discussions: 0
• Top performers (by success rate & activity): pr-sous-chef (3/3, 4 comments produced), daily-trajectory-grader-implementer (3/3), aw-failure-investigator (3/3), avenger (2/2), issue-monster (2/2)
• Needs improvement: agentic_commands (13 action_required out of 6 executed — see command-gating note), cjs (4 AR / 2 executed, 50% success), lint-monster, daily-go-test-parallelizer, daily-firewall-report (all 0/1 success)
• Stale root-cause found and corrected: three "fix pending" items carried in shared-alerts.md / workflow-health-latest.md since Jul 8 are already merged and should be removed from active-blocker tracking (see below).

Stale Root-Cause Corrections (this run)

Re-verified every "fix in PR #XXXXX, DO NOT RE-FILE" citation from shared-alerts.md against live PR state:

Cited PR	Claimed status (old notes)	Actual status	Action
#43527 (quality-gate rollout, blocking "Q workflow" AR fix)	"not yet merged — URGENT"	Merged 2026-07-05	Remove as active blocker; Q workflow AR (if still present) needs fresh root-cause, not this PR
#44254 (Copilot CLI hang-on-exit fix, blocking Impeccable/Matt Pocock/PR-Code-Quality/Test-Quality-Sentinel)	"fix PR open"	Merged 2026-07-08	Remove as active blocker; if these agents still show AR in current runs, hang-on-exit is not the cause — re-diagnose
#44276 (sandbox firewall EACCES fix for Smoke CI)	"fix PR open"	Merged 2026-07-09	Remove as active blocker; re-check Smoke CI current logs before re-filing

Why this matters: these notes are >2 months stale and were carried forward unchanged across multiple orchestrator cycles without re-verification, per the root-cause-hygiene rule. The underlying workflows (impeccable-skills-reviewer, mattpocock-skills-reviewer, pr-code-quality-reviewer, test-quality-sentinel) do show 1/1 success in the current Sep 1 snapshot — consistent with the merged fixes having worked. Recommendation: delete these three lines from shared-alerts.md now; do not restate them in future runs unless a new regression is observed with fresh evidence.

Performance Rankings (from Sep 1 snapshot)

Top Performing Agents (by executed-run success rate) 🏆

Agent	Executed	Success	AR	Success rate	Outputs
pr-sous-chef	3	3	0	100%	1 issue, 4 comments
daily-trajectory-grader-implementer	3	3	0	100%	0
aw-failure-investigator	3	3	0	100%	0
issue-monster	2	2	0	100%	0
avenger	2	2	0	100%	0
copilot	4	4	0	100%	0
cgo	1	1	2 (see note)	100%*	0
content-moderation	1	1	2 (see note)	100%*	0

* cgo and content-moderation show action_required > executed in the raw snapshot, which is internally inconsistent (AR events aren't disjoint from executed here) — flagging as a metrics-collector data-quality issue, not an agent performance issue. Do not use these two rows for scoring until the collector schema is fixed.

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

Agent	Executed	Success	AR	Note
lint-monster	1	0	0 (1 failed)	0/1 hard failure, no output
daily-go-test-parallelizer	1	0	0 (1 failed)	0/1 hard failure
daily-firewall-report	1	0	0 (1 failed)	0/1 hard failure
cjs (CI workflow)	2	1	4	This is a plain CI workflow, not agentic. Its AR runs are GitHub Actions approval-gating on PR-workflow runs, not agent activation-refused. Report separately as "CI approval-pending"; recommend approving Copilot-bot's workflow runs at the org/PR level.

Zero-Activity / Possibly Inactive Agents

workflow-generator, metrics-collector, daily-yamllint-fixer, daily-compiler-quality, daily-action-setup-security-audit, agentics-maintenance — all show 0 executed runs in the Sep 1 snapshot. metrics-collector showing 0 executed runs in its own collected data is itself the most actionable finding this cycle (see below).

Command/mention-gated workflows squad, q, ai-moderator show 0 executed / 2-4 action_required — consistent with expected command-gating behavior (event-triggered runs stopped by activation guard before the real task starts). Not scored as failures.

Key Findings

1. Metrics pipeline itself is stale/broken. metrics/latest.json is dated 2026-09-01, four days behind this run's execution time (2026-09-05), and metrics-collector's own row shows 0 executed runs — it isn't running or isn't writing fresh snapshots. Every score in this report inherits that staleness. This is the top-priority action item, since all three meta-orchestrators (this one, Campaign Manager, Workflow Health Manager) depend on this data for trend analysis.
2. Shared-memory root causes were stale by 2+ months. Three "fix PR open, do not re-file" notes referenced PRs that merged in early-to-mid July 2026. Carrying them forward unchanged risks masking new regressions in the same workflows (if they recur now, the real cause is different and needs fresh diagnosis). Corrected in shared-alerts.md this run.
3. cgo/content-moderation metrics rows are internally inconsistent (AR count exceeds executed count), suggesting a collector aggregation bug rather than an agent quality problem.
4. No issues/PRs/discussions were created by any monitored agent in the snapshot window except pr-sous-chef (1 issue + 4 comments). This limits sample-based quality scoring (clarity/accuracy/actionability) — there's very little fresh output to sample this cycle.
5. Three hard 0/1 failures (lint-monster, daily-go-test-parallelizer, daily-firewall-report) have no prior tracking issue in shared memory — worth a lightweight watch note, not yet a full issue given single-sample size.

Behavioral Patterns

No agent in the current low-sample-size window showed over-creation, under-creation, repetition, scope-creep, or inconsistency with enough evidence to classify — output volume was too low (only pr-sous-chef produced outputs) to detect patterns reliably this cycle.

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Fix metrics-collector freshness — it is the shared dependency for this analyzer, Campaign Manager, and Workflow Health Manager. Verify its schedule/trigger and engine health; if it's failing silently, file a targeted issue once root cause is confirmed (do not blind-guess a fix PR).
2. Purge stale root-cause citations — done in shared-alerts.md this run for Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527/fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254/fix: reclaim root-owned sandbox firewall dirs to prevent EACCES on reused runners #44276. Apply the same re-verification discipline to any other "fix PR open" note before the next cycle.
3. Fix cgo/content-moderation AR-vs-executed inconsistency in the metrics-collector's aggregation logic so success-rate math is trustworthy.

Medium Priority

1. Establish a single-sample watch (not yet an issue) on lint-monster, daily-go-test-parallelizer, daily-firewall-report — re-check next cycle before escalating.
2. Confirm cjs AR is CI-approval-gating (consistent with its classification as a plain CI workflow) rather than an agentic defect — no action needed if confirmed.

Low Priority

1. Once metrics freshness is restored, re-run full quality/effectiveness scoring across all active agents — this cycle's scores are not reliable enough to publish agent-by-agent rankings beyond pass/fail counts.

Actions Taken This Run

• Verified and corrected 3 stale root-cause citations in shared-alerts.md (PRs Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527, fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254, fix: reclaim root-owned sandbox firewall dirs to prevent EACCES on reused runners #44276 all confirmed merged).
• Updated agent-performance-latest.md with corrected notes and this cycle's summary.
• Did not create new issues: no single-sample failure met the evidence bar for a new issue, and no output existed to substantiate a prompt-quality issue for a specific agent this cycle.
• Did not create a discussion this cycle in place of a full quality report, because the underlying metrics are stale and a full agent-by-agent report would misrepresent confidence; instead this analysis is scoped as a data-quality and hygiene pass. Recommend re-running the full report once metrics-collector is confirmed healthy.

Next Steps

1. Confirm metrics-collector execution status directly (workflow run logs) — this is a blocker for every other meta-orchestrator relying on shared metrics.
2. Re-run this analysis once fresh (< 24h) metrics are available for full quality/effectiveness scoring.
3. Watch lint-monster, daily-go-test-parallelizer, daily-firewall-report for repeat failures before filing.
4. Continue root-cause hygiene: re-verify any "fix pending" note against live PR/issue state before restating it in future cycles.

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Analysis period: metrics snapshot 2026-09-01T02:50:27Z (stale; run executed 2026-09-05T12:51Z)
Next report: next scheduled cycle, contingent on metrics-collector freshness fix

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