[copilot-session-insights] Daily Copilot Agent Session Analysis — 2026-11-09

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🤖 Copilot Agent Session Analysis — 2026-11-09

Data limitation: no conversation transcripts were available for this run. The session-data/logs/ directory is empty, and tool-summaries.json reports source: missing for all 10 runs. Turn counts, token usage, tool-call success rates, loop detection, and context-confusion metrics could not be measured. Run-level metadata, the trend charts, and the orphaned-branch check are real data. This is the fifth consecutive day without transcripts.

Executive Summary

• Runs analyzed: 10 (run list, 04:23Z to 06:35Z on 2026-11-09). The workflow expects about 50 sessions, so this fetch is short, and the cause was not investigated.
• Completion rate: 50% (5 succeeded, 4 failed, 1 cancelled)
• Average run duration: 19.6 min (median 17.2 min). This is wall-clock time from updated_at minus created_at, not agent turn time.
• Orphaned branches: 0 escalations, status NORMAL
• Experimental strategy: not run (30% roll returned 42)

Key Metrics

Metric	Value	Trend (recorded history)
Runs in window	10	Not comparable to daily totals (about 2 hours)
Succeeded / failed / cancelled	5 / 4 / 1	Daily completion rate 11-02 to 11-08: 64, 64, 78, 64, 90, 80, 97%
Average duration	19.6 min	Daily average 11-02 to 11-07: 1.8 to 5.0 min; 11-08: 23.7 min (103-session day)
Loop detection	not measurable	n/a
Context issues	not measurable	n/a
Tool calls / failures	not measurable	n/a
Orphaned branch rate	0.0% (0 of 2 active branches)	Baseline 0.0% over 11 recorded days; NORMAL

Run-Level Breakdown

Run type	Runs	Succeeded	Failed	Cancelled
Running Copilot cloud agent	4	2	2	0
Addressing comment on PR	6	3	2	1

Branch prefixes: 6 copilot/*, 4 pelikhan/*. Run durations ranged from 5.2 to 47.4 min. Failed runs ran 10.0 to 21.4 min. The cancelled run ran 37.8 min. Metadata does not show why runs failed.

Success Factors ✅ and Failure Signals ⚠️

Not assessable from run metadata today. The only failure signal is that 5 of 10 runs did not succeed, spread across both run types. Attributing a cause needs transcripts or job logs.

Orphaned Branch Escalation Alerts 🚨

• Orphaned branches today: 0 of 2 active branches (0%). The 2 branches are main (6 gates, not a PR branch) and pelikhan/remove-queue-yaml-helper (5 gates).
• Historical baseline: 0.0%, mean over 11 recorded days (fewer than 30, but more than the 3-day minimum)
• Status: NORMAL
• Open PRs: 5 (inputs fetched; 11 in-progress runs in the last 6 hours)
• Escalation candidates: none. PR Use compiler JSON metadata in the setup runtime #75997 has 5 gates, but Copilot is assigned, so it is excluded.

Charts

Daily completion rate from the 30-day history. Success and failure counts exist only for the last ~11 days. Dates 10-04 to 10-13 have no records.

Daily average and median duration, with loop counts where recorded. The 2026-10-29 row appears twice with conflicting values; the later row was used. Metric definitions changed over time, so cross-period comparisons are approximate.

Data Quality Issues

1. No transcripts for 5 consecutive days (since 2026-11-05). Earlier runs logged a DIFC policy 403 on job logs; today the logs directory is empty and no error was recorded in the fetch output.
2. Short run list: 10 runs returned, not about 50.
3. Duplicate history row for 2026-10-29 with conflicting values.
4. Definition drift in history: sessions_analyzed was 50 through 11-07 and 103 on 11-08; early median durations are 0.0 on many days.

Recommendations

For system maintainers (priority)

1. Restore job-log or transcript access. The fetch should fail loudly when logs/ is empty instead of producing a report that looks like a normal run. Potential impact: High.
2. Investigate why the run list returned 10 entries instead of about 50, and confirm the window used. Potential impact: High.
3. Deduplicate history writes by date, and record a metric-definition version with each entry. Potential impact: Medium.

For users writing task descriptions: not assessable today.

For tool development: none identified from run metadata.

Next Steps

• Restore transcript access for the session-data fetch
• Re-run once transcripts are available to measure turns, tokens, tool calls, and loops
• Confirm the expected ~50-session window in the run-list fetch
• Clean up the duplicate 2026-10-29 history row

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Analysis generated 2026-11-09 (UTC)
Run ID: 42575405676
Workflow: Copilot Session Insights

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