Agent Persona Exploration - 2026-06-05

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Persona Overview

• Agent: agentic-workflows
• Scenarios Tested: 4 selected from 10 generated scenarios
• Average Quality Score: 4.2/5.0
• Method Note: Direct steerable custom-agent invocation was not available in this runtime; findings assess the loaded agentic-workflows skill/router guidance and documented workflow-creation behavior.

Key Findings

• The guidance consistently prioritizes read-only agent jobs with GitHub writes routed through safe-outputs.
• Trigger selection was strongest for deployment failure handling (workflow_run / deployment_status) and adequate for PR-based review workflows.
• Tool recommendations generally matched task needs: github gh-proxy for repository reads, playwright for browser/UI checks, and ecosystem network only when builds/tests require it.
• The most common gap is scenario-specific detail: path filters, artifact discovery, and reusable prompt snippets are implied but not always explicit.

Top Patterns

1. PR automation maps to pull_request with minimal read permissions and add-comment output.
2. Scheduled/team reports should prefer fuzzy schedules such as daily on weekdays or weekly.
3. Mutations should use focused safe outputs such as create-issue, add-comment, upload-artifact, or upload-asset.
4. Security guidance emphasizes strict: true, scoped network access, fork controls, and explicit noop behavior.

View High Quality Responses

• DevOps deployment failure (4.4/5): strongest trigger mapping and safe-output fit; incident creation naturally uses create-issue while the agent remains read-only.
• Frontend visual regression (4.2/5): strong tool fit through playwright, with report assets routed through upload safe outputs.
• Backend migration safety (4.2/5): good PR review pattern with conservative permissions and actionable comment output.

View Scenario Score Summary

Scenario	Trigger	Tools	Security	Prompt	Complete	Avg
Backend migration safety	4	4	5	4	4	4.2
Frontend visual regression	4	5	4	4	4	4.2
DevOps deploy failure	5	4	5	4	4	4.4
QA coverage change	4	4	5	4	4	4.2

View Areas for Improvement

• Add more concrete path-filter examples for common PR review workflows such as migrations, UI components, and coverage reports.
• Provide reusable mini-prompts for incident reports, coverage deltas, and migration-safety reviews.
• Make artifact discovery guidance more explicit for coverage and visual-regression scenarios.

Recommendations

1. Add scenario-specific examples to .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md or .github/aw/workflow-patterns.md for migrations, visual regression, deployment failures, and coverage comments.
2. Expand .github/aw/safe-outputs-content.md / .github/aw/safe-outputs-management.md with concise mappings from report types to safe outputs, including noop expectations.
3. Document a lightweight evaluation harness in .github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md for testing workflow-design guidance against representative persona scenarios.

References: §27026395787

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