Agent Persona Exploration - 2026-08-11

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Persona Overview

• Agent: agentic-workflows
• Personas This Run: Program Manager, Designer, Legal / Compliance
• Scenarios Tested: 4
• Average Quality Score: 4.3/5.0

Key Findings

• The documented guidance strongly favors pull_request for persona-specific reviews and schedule + workflow_dispatch for recurring digests.
• gh-proxy GitHub reads and read-only permissions were consistent across all evaluated scenarios.
• Safe outputs were well aligned: add-comment for PR-local findings, create-issue for recurring or escalated reporting, plus explicit noop behavior.
• Non-technical personas are covered reasonably well, but coordination-style scenarios still show trigger ambiguity.
• Direct custom-agent invocation was unavailable in this harness, so results are based on the agent's published guidance rather than live generated responses.

Top Patterns

1. Most common trigger types: pull_request for scoped reviews; schedule + workflow_dispatch for recurring reports.
2. Most recommended tools: tools.github.mode: gh-proxy with default toolsets; optional extras only when clearly needed.
3. Security practices observed: read-only permissions, safe-output-only writes, scoped paths: filters, and explicit noop rules.

View High Quality Responses (Top 2-3)

• PM1 — Strong reporting pattern with explicit weekly window, dedup key, and create-issue lifecycle guidance.
• DS1 — Clear designer mapping: pull_request, design-token path scoping, PR comment output, and clean no-op behavior.
• LC1 — Good compliance boundary between PR-local comments and wider escalation issues.

View Areas for Improvement (Top 2-3)

• PM2 exposed a coordination gap: the recommended trigger is not obvious when milestone state and dependency PR status must be combined.
• The compact guidance sometimes omits grouping dimensions for recurring reports, which can reduce consistency for stakeholder digests.
• Compliance guidance would benefit from clearer instructions on how to source and validate license evidence before escalation.

Recommendations

1. Add a stronger trigger-decision example for milestone slip / dependency escalation scenarios in .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow-trigger-details.md.
2. Expand recurring digest guidance in .github/aw/report.md to consistently require grouping dimensions alongside window and dedup key.
3. Add a concise compliance example in .github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md or .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md covering manifest-path scoping plus license-evidence validation.

Scenario Assessment Data

Scenario	Status	Avg	Notes
PM1	response_unavailable_fallback	4.6	Good schedule/report pattern; grouping detail could be stronger
PM2	response_unavailable_fallback	3.6	Trigger ambiguity for coordination workflow
DS1	response_unavailable_fallback	4.6	Strong PR-scoped designer guidance
LC1	response_unavailable_fallback	4.4	Good escalation boundary; thin license evidence detail

[!NOTE]
Live custom-agent invocation was unavailable in this environment. The evaluation used the installed agent specification and linked .github/aw/*.md guidance as the documented fallback path.

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