Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-05-11

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 23
• Total outputs reviewed: ~30 (issues: 20+, PRs: 3, comments: ~7)
• Average quality score: 74/100 (→ stable plateau, day 10)
• Average effectiveness score: 71/100 (→ stable)
• Ecosystem health score: 62/100 (↑ +1)
• Top performers: Agentic Maintenance, Issue Monster, Auto-Close Parent Issues
• Needs improvement: PR-review cluster (8 agents), Daily Fact About gh-aw, Plan Command
• Notable: 3 P0 issues resolved today (Smoke CI/Gemini [aw-failures] P0: Smoke CI agent crashes — Crush EROFS install failure & Gemini API key invalid #29666, Daily Model Inventory [aw-failures] Daily Model Inventory Checker: Copilot CLI silent startup crash (exit code 1) #30043, config.models [aw-failures] Fix: config.models is not supported — unsupported AWF config field blocks entire smoke sweep (10 runs) #30307) ✅

Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. Agentic Maintenance (Quality: 90/100, Effectiveness: 92/100)

   • Consistently produces high-quality maintenance outputs
   • 100% success rate, stable multi-week performer
   • Efficient resource usage, well-scoped prompts

2. Issue Monster (Quality: 85/100, Effectiveness: 87/100)

   • Active and effective issue routing
   • Clear, well-structured outputs
   • Example: contributing to daily triage pipeline

3. Auto-Close Parent Issues (Quality: 82/100, Effectiveness: 85/100)

   • 100% success rate, no false positives detected
   • Well-targeted closure logic

4. Bot Detection (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 80/100) — Stable baseline ✅

5. PR Triage Agent (Quality: 80/100, Effectiveness: 80/100) — Stable baseline ✅

6. Auto-Triage Issues (Quality: 78/100, Effectiveness: 75/100) — 2 clean runs today ✅

7. Daily File Diet (Quality: 77/100, Effectiveness: 74/100) — Clean run today ✅

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. PR-review cluster: Q, Scout, cloclo, Archie, Grumpy, PR Nitpick, PR Code Quality, Security Review (Effectiveness: ~0/100)

   • Pattern: under-creation (all 8 agents)
   • 40–50 action_required runs/day, zero outputs — trigger gate failure
   • ~272 wasted run-attempts/day (P2, escalation pending)
   • Recommendation: Fix trigger condition / permissions gate or consolidate into single gated workflow

2. Daily Fact About gh-aw (Effectiveness: 0/100)

   • Patterns: under-creation + repetition
   • 15+ consecutive push-time parse validation failures (P1 — issue filed 2026-05-11)
   • No circuit-breaker: re-enters same broken error path every push
   • Recommendation: Fix schema error; add failure-threshold guard to disable workflow after N consecutive failures

3. Plan Command (Patterns: over-creation)

   • Previously created 5 issues in <60s ([plan] Add inline Claude/non-Copilot auth setup to Quick Start Step 3 #31207–[plan] Fix minor engine parity gaps in overview.mdx, README, and engines.md #31211) — burst creation anomaly
   • Missing rate limit or debounce guard
   • Recommendation: Add deduplication check + rate-limit on issue creation

4. AI Moderator / Content Moderation (Patterns: inconsistency + scope-creep)

   • 2 action_required : 1 success split; scope-creep partially recovering
   • Recommendation: Tighten trigger conditions, clarify responsibility boundaries in prompt

Inactive / Zombie Agents ⚠️

• Deployment Incident Monitor: 100% skipped (zombie pattern, 8x/100 runs). No outputs. Consider deprecating or fixing activation trigger.
• Resource Summarizer Agent: Chronic skips + inconsistent conclusions, zero outputs. Fix dependency or deprecate.
• Doc Build - Deploy: Persistent action_required, deployment pipeline stalled.

Quality Analysis

Output Quality Distribution

• Excellent (80–100): 5 agents (Agentic Maintenance, Issue Monster, Auto-Close Parent Issues, Bot Detection, PR Triage Agent)
• Good (60–79): 3 agents (Auto-Triage Issues, Daily File Diet, Copilot cloud agent)
• Fair (40–59): 2 agents (AI Moderator, Content Moderation — recovering)
• Poor / No Output (<40): 13 agents (PR-review cluster ×8, Daily Fact, Deployment Incident Monitor, Resource Summarizer, Doc Build - Deploy, Plan Command)

Common Quality Issues

1. Trigger gate failures (PR-review cluster): 8 agents produce zero outputs despite high run frequency — waste without remediation
2. Parse validation loop (Daily Fact): Repeated failure with no self-correcting behavior — brittle prompt missing fallback
3. Burst over-creation (Plan Command): Lack of idempotency guard risks flooding issue tracker

Effectiveness Analysis

Task Completion Rates

• High (>80%): 7 agents (Agentic Maintenance, Issue Monster, Auto-Close Parent Issues, Bot Detection, PR Triage Agent, Auto-Triage Issues, Daily File Diet)
• Medium (50–80%): 3 agents (AI Moderator, Content Moderation, Copilot cloud agent)
• Low (<50%): 13 agents (PR-review cluster, Daily Fact, Deployment Incident Monitor, Resource Summarizer, Doc Build - Deploy, Plan Command)

Trend vs Yesterday (May 10 → May 11)

• Quality: 74 → 74 (→ plateau day 10)
• Effectiveness: 71 → 71 (→ plateau day 10)
• Ecosystem health: 61 → 62 (↑ +1 — P0 resolutions)
• P0 active: 5 → 1 (↓ major improvement — 3 closed today + 1 pre-existing closure)

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Agentic Maintenance + Issue Monster coordination: Daily triage pipeline functioning smoothly
• Bot Detection → Auto-Triage → Auto-Close: Effective three-stage automation chain
• Workflow Health Manager → Shared Alerts integration: Health escalations translated into timely issue creation (Daily Fact P1 filed this morning)

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• PR-review cluster under-creation (8 agents): All 8 fire on every PR event but produce zero outputs — trigger gate or permissions issue blocks all output. Highest waste item.
• Daily Fact repetition loop: Enters same broken parse path 15+ consecutive times with no circuit-breaker.
• Plan Command over-creation: 5 rapid-fire issues created in one burst — idempotency missing.
• Copilot cloud agent inconsistency: Human-triggered, mostly healthy but 1/3 run failure suggests non-determinism on edge-case inputs.

Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered Areas

• Issue triage and lifecycle management (Monster, Auto-Triage, Auto-Close)
• Code quality review (PR Triage, Bot Detection)
• Maintenance automation (Agentic Maintenance)
• Health monitoring (Workflow Health Manager, Safe Output Health Monitor)

Coverage Gaps

• Security vulnerability tracking (Security Review blocked by cluster gate)
• Deployment pipeline (Doc Build - Deploy stalled)
• Performance regression monitoring ([performance] Regression in Validation: 82.1% slower #30180 unresolved)

Redundancy

• 8 agents in PR-review cluster share a broken trigger — consolidate into a single workflow with internal routing after fixing the trigger gate

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Fix PR-review cluster trigger gate — affects 8 agents, ~272 wasted runs/day

   • Effort: 2–4 hours | Impact: Eliminates highest waste, recovers security + code quality coverage
   • Action: Investigate action_required trigger conditions across Q, Scout, cloclo, Archie, Grumpy, PR Nitpick, PR Code Quality, Security Review

2. Add circuit-breaker to Daily Fact About gh-aw (P1 — issue already filed)

   • Effort: 1–2 hours | Impact: Stops 15+ consecutive parse failures per day
   • Action: Fix parse validation schema; add max-failures guard

3. Add idempotency guard to Plan Command

   • Effort: 1 hour | Impact: Prevents burst duplicate issue creation
   • Action: Check for existing open issue before creating; add rate-limit

Medium Priority

1. Deprecate Deployment Incident Monitor — zombie pattern, no activation in extended period
2. Fix or retire Resource Summarizer Agent — chronic skips, zero outputs
3. Tighten AI Moderator / Content Moderation scope — reduce inconsistency

Low Priority

1. Investigate Copilot cloud agent non-determinism — 1/3 failure on human-triggered runs
2. Node.js 20 deprecation in CI — deadline Sep 16, 2026 (P2 watch)
3. Merge PR Comment out top-level on.labels in compiled workflows to prevent push-time workflow parse failures #31411 — systemic on.labels push-time parse failure fix (unblocks Daily Fact and others)

Trends

• Overall quality: 74/100 (→ stable plateau, 10 consecutive days — plateau break needed)
• Average effectiveness: 71/100 (→ stable)
• P0 active: 1 (↓ from 5 on May 10 — major improvement ✅)
• Ecosystem health: 62/100 (↑ gradual improvement)
• Wasted runs (PR-review cluster): ~272/day (→ unchanged, still highest priority)
• Under-creation rate: 52% of profiled agents (12/23) — dominant pattern

Actions Taken This Run

• Generated this performance report discussion
• Pattern analysis: pattern-detector classified 23 agents
• Updated shared memory: agent-performance-latest.md, shared-alerts.md
• No new P0/P1 issues filed (P1 for Daily Fact filed by Workflow Health this morning)
• 3 P0 closures noted: [aw-failures] P0: Smoke CI agent crashes — Crush EROFS install failure & Gemini API key invalid #29666, [aw-failures] Daily Model Inventory Checker: Copilot CLI silent startup crash (exit code 1) #30043, [aw-failures] Fix: config.models is not supported — unsupported AWF config field blocks entire smoke sweep (10 runs) #30307 ✅

Next Steps

1. Merge PR Comment out top-level on.labels in compiled workflows to prevent push-time workflow parse failures #31411 (on.labels fix) — unblocks Daily Fact and systemic parse failures
2. Investigate PR-review cluster trigger gate — highest waste item
3. Monitor quality/effectiveness plateau: 10 days flat suggests structural bottleneck
4. Review zombie agents (Deployment Incident Monitor, Resource Summarizer) for deprecation
5. Track APM Unpack ([aw-failures] [aw] Fix: APM unpack fails for apm-default.tar.gz (exit code 1) — 3 workflows blocked #30252) — sole remaining P0

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Analysis period: 2026-05-04 to 2026-05-11 | Next report: 2026-05-18
Run: §25673457208

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