Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-07-12

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 18
• Total outputs reviewed: ~200+ (issues: 30+, PRs: 20+, comments: various)
• Average quality score: 64/100 (↑ from 63 Jul 8)
• Average effectiveness score: 65/100 (↑ from 64 Jul 8)
• Top performers: Copilot SWE Agent, PR Triage Agent, Issue Monster, PR Sous Chef, Copilot Cloud Agent
• Needs improvement: Q workflow, AI Moderator, CGO, CWI, Smoke CI
• Notable: PR Triage Agent autonomously self-fixed its own 403 bug via PR fix(pr-triage-agent): replace gh pr checks with MCP get_check_runs to stop CLI proxy 403s #44927

Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents

1. Copilot SWE Agent (Quality: 93/100, Effectiveness: 92/100)

   • Merged 10+ high-quality PRs Jul 8-12: docker-sbx runtime support, safe-update specification, progressive-disclosure normalization, deprecated token-weights removal, reduce MCP context bloat
   • Self-improving: fixed pr-triage-agent 403 via fix(pr-triage-agent): replace gh pr checks with MCP get_check_runs to stop CLI proxy 403s #44927

2. PR Triage Agent (Quality: 88/100, Effectiveness: 87/100)

   • 1/1 success rate; proactively diagnosed its own gh pr checks 403 failure and filed fix PR fix(pr-triage-agent): replace gh pr checks with MCP get_check_runs to stop CLI proxy 403s #44927 (merged Jul 11)
   • Demonstrates strong self-assessment capability

3. Issue Monster (Quality: 85/100, Effectiveness: 83/100)

   • 3/3 successful runs. Well-structured outputs, on-scope triage.

4. PR Sous Chef (Quality: 83/100, Effectiveness: 82/100)

   • Recovered to 2/2. Adding missing safe-output fixture files ([safe-output-integrator] Add missing copilot safe-output fixture files (close-discussion, assign-to-agent, assign-to-user, unassign-from-user) #45004).

5. Copilot Cloud Agent (Quality: 82/100, Effectiveness: 80/100)

   • 7/7 perfect run rate — most reliable infrastructure-level agent.

Agents Needing Improvement

1. Q workflow (Quality: 25/100, Effectiveness: 15/100)

   • 0/16 successful runs (9 failure, 7 action_required)
   • Root cause: quality gate PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 still not merged after 7+ days — URGENT

2. AI Moderator (Quality: 35/100, Effectiveness: 30/100)

   • 0/15 ok, 8 fail, 7 skip
   • Root cause: Codex engine 404 (persistent; issue [aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241)
   • Prompt deficiency: no fallback engine specified

3. CGO + CWI (Quality: 30/100, Effectiveness: 28/100)

   • 0/4 each — 100% failure for 4 consecutive days; shared CI regression ([CGO] Workflow failure on main - Run #11644 #38777)

4. Content Moderation (Quality: 68/100, Effectiveness: 65/100)

   • 7/15 (47%) — no improvement from Jul 8
   • Prompt deficiency: missing retry/fallback logic for edge-case content

Inactive / Deprecated Candidates

• Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer: 0% success, CLI hang. Deprecation candidate.
• Design Decision Gate: 0% success. Deprecation candidate.
• Impeccable Skills Reviewer: CLI hang — awaiting PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 merge.

Quality Analysis

Output Quality Distribution

• Excellent (80-100): 7 agents
• Good (60-79): 3 agents
• Fair (40-59): 3 agents
• Poor (<40): 5 agents (all infra-blocked)

Common Quality Issues

1. Engine/infrastructure failures — 5 agents at 0% from infra problems, not prompt quality
2. Inconsistent execution — Content Moderation 47% suggests environmental sensitivity
3. Stale engine config — AI Moderator targeting deprecated Codex engine

Effectiveness Analysis

Task Completion Rates

• High completion (>80%): 7 agents
• Medium completion (40-80%): 2 agents (Agentic Commands 44%, Content Moderation 47%)
• Low completion (<40%): 5 agents (infra-blocked)

PR Merge Statistics (Copilot SWE Agent)

• 10+ PRs merged Jul 8-12; merge rate ~80% (up from 73%)

Agentic Commands

• Improved from 8% (Jul 8 AM) to 44% (Jul 8-12); issue [aw] Impeccable Skills Reviewer failed #43079 still open

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns

• Self-healing: PR Triage Agent diagnosed and filed its own fix PR fix(pr-triage-agent): replace gh pr checks with MCP get_check_runs to stop CLI proxy 403s #44927
• Virtuous cycle: SWE Agent fixes infra -> triage/review agents benefit
• Infra-first week: progressive disclosure, MCP context reduction, deprecated field cleanup

Problematic Patterns

• CLI hang cluster: 4 review agents blocked on same bug — PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 needs merge
• Content Moderation instability: 47% with no clear failure pattern
• CGO/CWI shared regression: 100% failure 4+ days

Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered

• PR lifecycle, issue management, code quality, documentation

Coverage Gaps

• Security vulnerability tracking (no dedicated agent)
• Performance regression detection (no dedicated agent)
• Metrics collection (broken since Jan 2026)

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Merge PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 — Q workflow at 0% for 7+ days; one merge fixes 16 runs/period
2. Merge PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 — Unblocks 4 agents (Impeccable, PR Code Quality, Test Quality Sentinel, Matt Pocock)
3. Fix AI Moderator engine — Codex -> Copilot; 1-line config change ([aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241)
4. Investigate Content Moderation — 47% inconsistency with no clear cause

Medium Priority

1. Deprecate Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer + Design Decision Gate — 0% success, no active fix
2. Investigate CGO/CWI regression — 100% failure 4+ days
3. Restore Metrics Collector — Blind spot since Jan 2026

Low Priority

1. Add security scanning agent
2. Add performance regression detection agent

Trends

Metric	Jul 8	Jul 12	Trend
Avg quality score	63/100	64/100	+1
Avg effectiveness	64/100	65/100	+1
Ecosystem health	63/100	62/100	-1
0% failure agents	7	8	+1
SWE PR merge rate	~73%	~80%	+7%

Actions Taken This Run

• Updated shared memory (agent-performance-latest.md, shared-alerts.md)
• No new issues filed — all blockers already tracked
• Created this performance report

Next Steps

1. Merge PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527 (Q workflow) — URGENT
2. Merge PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 (CLI hang fix for 4 review agents)
3. Fix AI Moderator engine ([aw] AI Moderator produced no safe outputs #44241)
4. Investigate Content Moderation inconsistency
5. Deprecate Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer + Design Decision Gate
6. Restore Metrics Collector

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Analysis period: 2026-07-08 to 2026-07-12
Next report: 2026-07-19

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