Agent Performance Report — 2026-06-02

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 23 active workflow groups (~237 total workflows)
• Average quality score: 72/100 (↓1 from 73 — new failures offset improvements)
• Average effectiveness: 66/100 (↓1 — Agentic Commands degraded)
• Ecosystem health: 81/100 (stable — CJS P1 still unresolved)
• Top performers: copilot-swe-agent, spec-enforcer, License Compliance, Auto-Close
• Needs attention: Q (fully blocked), CGO (100% failing), CJS (100% failing), Agentic Commands (22% ok)

Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. copilot-swe-agent (Quality: 84/100, Effectiveness: 82/100)

   • 22 merged PRs in recent window vs. 8 open WIP PRs — excellent throughput
   • High-quality PRs: fix invalid YAML codemod (fix(codemod): skip pull-request-target-checkout-false when checkout is a mapping #36453), OTEL attribution (Preserve OTEL resource attribution and normalize agent token counters #36450), permission-denied refactor (Refactor harness permission-denied handling into shared helper module #36415)
   • Consistent delivery; most open WIPs are same-day

2. spec-enforcer (Quality: 85/100, Effectiveness: 88/100)

   • 100% merge rate on PRs created
   • Outputs are clear, well-scoped, and actionable
   • No behavioral anomalies detected

3. License Compliance Check (Quality: 90/100, Effectiveness: 100%)

   • 3/3 runs succeeded
   • Clean, reliable automated compliance gate

4. Auto-Close Parent Issues (Quality: 85/100, Effectiveness: 100%)

   • 1/1 runs succeeded; performs housekeeping reliably

5. Agentic Maintenance (Quality: 78/100, Effectiveness: 75%)

   • 3/4 runs succeeded; stable upward trend

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. Q Workflow (Quality: N/A, Effectiveness: 0/100)

   • 0% success in 18 runs — fully blocked
   • All runs cancelled, no outputs produced
   • Root cause: infrastructure/authentication blocker (tracked)
   • Action: Issue already filed. Escalate if no fix by EOW.

2. Agentic Commands (Quality: 55/100, Effectiveness: 22/100)

   • 22% ok in 18 runs — significant degradation
   • Produces outputs but at low success rate
   • Pattern: likely dependency on blocked infrastructure (CJS/Q)
   • Recommendation: Investigate failure reasons; add better diagnostics

3. CJS / CI Workflows (Quality: N/A, Effectiveness: 0/100)

   • CJS: 0% ok, 4 failures + cancelled — P1 issue [P1] CJS typecheck failing on main — 17+ failures since 2026-06-02 #36410
   • CGO: 0% ok, 2 failures — [CGO] Workflow failure on main - Run #8016 #35028 tracking
   • Blocking downstream agents and PR merges

4. Smoke CI (Quality: 60/100, Effectiveness: 9/100)

   • 9% ok in 11 runs — severe degradation
   • 1 success out of 11; likely blocked by CJS/CGO failures

Inactive / Blocked Agents

• AI Moderator: 0% ok in 5 runs (all cancelled)
• PR Description Updater: 0% ok in 3 runs (all cancelled)
• Label Closed PRs: 0% ok in 3 runs (all cancelled)
• Copilot cloud agent: 0% ok in 4 runs (all cancelled)

Note: "cancelled" outcomes do not always indicate agent failure — many are trigger-based skips. Monitor for pattern.

Quality & Effectiveness Analysis

Output Quality Distribution (estimated from sampled outputs)

• Excellent (80–100): 4 agents (copilot-swe-agent, spec-enforcer, License Compliance, Auto-Close)
• Good (60–79): 8 agents (Agentic Maintenance, docs-updater, agentrx-optimizer, aw-compat, ab-advisor, otel-advisor, token-audit, static-analysis)
• Fair (40–59): 5 agents (Agentic Commands, Smoke CI, daily-reporter group)
• Poor / No output (<40): 6 agents (Q, CGO, CJS, AI Moderator, PR Description Updater, Copilot cloud agent)

Task Completion Rates (from 100 recent runs)

• High completion (>75%): License Compliance, Auto-Close, Agentic Maintenance
• Medium completion (25–75%): Copilot (66%), Agentic Commands (22%), Content Moderation (40%)
• Low completion (<25%): Q (0%), CJS (0%), CGO (0%), Smoke CI (9%), AI Moderator (0%)

PR Merge Statistics (30-day window)

• copilot-swe-agent: 22 merged vs. 8 open WIP (~73% merge rate, high volume)
• app/github-actions (automation): 6 merged vs. many open reports
• Notable open WIP PRs: jsweep clean ([jsweep] Clean validate_memory_files.cjs #36404), actions update ([actions] Update GitHub Actions versions - 2026-06-02 #36426), daily token audit (Allow Python network access in token audit workflows #36452)

New Issues Detected (June 2)

Compared to June 1 Report

Category	Status	Change
Step Name Alignment (#36062)	✅ Passed today	Possible resolution
CJS typecheck (#36410)	🔴 P1, filed June 2	NEW — 4+ failures
CGO unit tests (#35028)	🔴 Escalating	100% failure rate
Typist - Go Type Analysis (#36443)	🟡 New failure	NEW
Failure Investigator 6h (#36424)	🟡 Recurring	Continues
chaos-test PR stall	🔴 Worsening	10+ PRs, 0 merges
Token budget exhaustion	🟡 Watch	jsweep + daily-compiler

Notable Agent Outputs Today

• aw-compat: Identified 1 genuine cross-repo break ([aw-compat] AW cross-repo compat (2026-06-02): 1 genuine break (dotnet/maui, recurring) + 1 codemod regression #36436) and a codemod bug ([aw-compat] Bug: pull-request-target-checkout-false codemod corrupts a pre-existing checkout: mapping (invalid YAML) #36435) — high-value detections
• ab-advisor: Created experiment campaign for metrics-collector max_turns ([ab-advisor] Experiment campaign for metrics-collector: A/B test max_turns #36438) — actionable
• otel-advisor: Proposed OTEL resource attribution improvement ([otel-advisor] OTel improvement: mirror service.version & deployment.environment onto spans (resource attrs are dropped by Sentry) #36434) — specific, implementable
• token-trend-audit: 90-day trend audit filed ([agentic-token-trend-audit] Token Trend Audit — 2026-05-31 to 2026-06-02 (90-day window) #36425) — good scope

Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• copilot-swe-agent high throughput: 22 merges in recent window — serving as primary implementation agent effectively
• aw-compat + codemod-fixer collaboration: aw-compat detects cross-repo breaks ([aw-compat] Bug: pull-request-target-checkout-false codemod corrupts a pre-existing checkout: mapping (invalid YAML) #36435, [aw-compat] AW cross-repo compat (2026-06-02): 1 genuine break (dotnet/maui, recurring) + 1 codemod regression #36436), copilot-swe-agent implements fixes (fix(codemod): skip pull-request-target-checkout-false when checkout is a mapping #36453) — tight feedback loop
• observability agents coordination: otel-advisor, token-audit, token-trend-audit producing complementary signals without overlap

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• chaos-test PR flood + stall: 10+ open PRs ([chaos-test] [chaos r93] bit-flipper: amend+line-ending-variant #36120–[chaos-test] [chaos r93] commit-sculptor: two-commits+minor-rename #36124, [chaos-test] [chaos-r95] token-shuffler: amend+line-ending-variant #36251–[chaos-test] [chaos-r95] byte-fossil: amend+two-commits #36256), 0 merges — consuming PR bandwidth, no value delivered
• Token budget exhaustion (systemic): jsweep ([aw] jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater failed #36183) + daily-compiler ([aw] Daily Compiler Quality Check failed #36172) both hitting limits — indicates scope creep or prompt inefficiency
• Failure reporters duplication ([aw-failures] Contribution Check safe_outputs job fails — agent emits add_comment with target: "*" and no issue_number #35984): ~60% duplicate rate across runs — dedup gate still unimplemented
• Infrastructure cascade blocking: CJS + CGO failures cascading into Smoke CI + Agentic Commands degradation

Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered Areas

• Token/OTEL observability (4+ agents: token-audit, token-trend-audit, otel-advisor, agentrx-optimizer)
• Code quality (static-analysis, duplicate-code, go-fan, sergo)
• Campaign orchestration and health monitoring

Coverage Gaps

• Security vulnerability tracking: No dedicated agent; SEC-005 ([Safe Outputs Conformance] SEC-005: update_activation_comment.cjs supports target-repo but lacks allowlist check #36079) identified gap manually
• PR review automation: PR Code Quality Reviewer failing; no replacement coverage

Redundancy

• 3–4 overlapping token observability agents may produce duplicate findings
• Recommendation: Coordinate token agents to divide scope (cost vs. trends vs. OTEL vs. audit)

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Resolve CJS typecheck breakage ([P1] CJS typecheck failing on main — 17+ failures since 2026-06-02 #36410)

   • Blocking CI, blocking Smoke CI, cascading failures
   • Triggered by PR Fix copilot-sdk harness stdin wiring, SDK installation/resolution, custom-provider setup from /reflect, and remove duplicate harness timestamps #36358 (commit cf5be42) — likely fixable by reverting or patching
   • Expected impact: Restores CI green, unblocks 5+ dependent agents

2. Pause chaos-test PR creation

   • 10+ open PRs with 0 merges = wasted cycles + PR noise
   • Pause until merge process is defined; add auto-close for stale PRs
   • Expected impact: Reduces PR backlog, frees reviewer bandwidth

3. Implement dedup gate for Failure Reporters ([aw-failures] Contribution Check safe_outputs job fails — agent emits add_comment with target: "*" and no issue_number #35984)

   • 60% duplicate rate is unsustainable; tracked 3+ weeks without fix
   • Expected impact: -60% redundant issue noise

Medium Priority

4. Investigate Agentic Commands 22% success rate

   • Has degraded from baseline; unclear if infrastructure-dependent or prompt regression
   • Add failure reason logging to diagnose root cause

5. Consolidate token observability agents

   • 4 agents covering overlapping scope; coordinate or merge to reduce duplication
   • Expected impact: Cleaner signal, fewer duplicate reports

6. Step Name Alignment — close if confirmed resolved

   • Passed June 2; if trend holds, close [step-names] Align "Start MCP server" step name in mcp-debug shared component with glossary casing #36062/[aw] Step Name Alignment failed #36187 and document resolution

Low Priority

7. Add timeout/scope limit to token budget workflows
   • jsweep + daily-compiler hitting budget exhaustion — add explicit limits to prompts
8. Review and potentially retire Q workflow — if infrastructure blocker unresolvable

Trends

Metric	Today	Yesterday	Change
Quality score	72/100	73/100	↓1
Effectiveness	66/100	67/100	↓1
Ecosystem health	81/100	81/100	→
Active P1 issues	5	4	↑1 (CJS)
copilot-swe-agent merged PRs (30d)	22	~20	↑
Blocked workflows	6	5	↑1

Actions Taken This Run

• No new issues filed (all critical issues already tracked)
• Updated agent-performance-latest.md in shared memory
• Identified Step Name Alignment possible resolution (recommend monitoring)
• Flagged Agentic Commands degradation for Campaign Manager

Next Steps

1. Track CJS typecheck resolution ([P1] CJS typecheck failing on main — 17+ failures since 2026-06-02 #36410) — expected today
2. Confirm Step Name Alignment resolution; close [step-names] Align "Start MCP server" step name in mcp-debug shared component with glossary casing #36062/[aw] Step Name Alignment failed #36187 if confirmed
3. Campaign Manager to evaluate chaos-test pause
4. Implement dedup gate for Failure Reporters ([aw-failures] Contribution Check safe_outputs job fails — agent emits add_comment with target: "*" and no issue_number #35984) — aging P2
5. Next report: 2026-06-03

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Analysis period: 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-02
Next report: 2026-06-03
References: §26824629412 | §26801601082 | #36410

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