[copilot-agent-analysis] Daily Copilot Agent Analysis - 2025-10-18

[dsyme]

🤖 Copilot Agent PR Analysis - 2025-10-18

Summary

Analysis Period: Last 24 hours (2025-10-17 10:00 UTC to 2025-10-18 10:00 UTC)
Total PRs Analyzed: 0
Success Rate: N/A (no PRs created)

PR Summary Table

No pull requests were created by copilot-swe-agent in the last 24 hours.

PR #	Title	Outcome	Comments	Agent Duration	Total Duration	Files Changed	Status
No PRs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Metrics

Today's Performance

• PRs Created: 0
• PRs Merged: 0 (N/A%)
• PRs Closed (not merged): 0 (N/A%)
• PRs Still Open: 0
• Average Human Comments: N/A
• Average Agent Duration: N/A
• Average Total Duration: N/A

Historical Context

Note: Insufficient historical data for trend analysis. Only 1 day of data available (2025-10-17).

Yesterday's Performance (2025-10-17):

• PRs Created: 9 (morning analysis)
• PRs Merged: 8 (89% success rate)
• PRs Closed: 0
• PRs Still Open: 1
• Average Human Comments: 0.67 per PR
• Average Agent Duration: 37 minutes
• Average Total Duration: 37 minutes

Data Limitations

⚠️ Insufficient Data for Trends: This analysis workflow only has 1 day of historical data (October 17). To provide meaningful trend analysis, we need:

• Minimum: 7 days for weekly trends
• Target: 30 days for monthly trends

Current Status: Only 2 data points available (Oct 17 morning with 9 PRs, and today with 0 PRs).

Activity Pattern Observation

Key Finding: There was significant copilot-swe-agent activity yesterday (9 PRs in the morning), but zero activity in the last 24 hours.

Possible Explanations:

1. No issues assigned to Copilot: No one assigned @copilot to issues in the last 24 hours
2. Weekend/timing effect: Could be related to repository activity patterns
3. Completed backlog: Previous PRs may have addressed immediate needs

Instruction File Changes

No changes detected to copilot-agent-analysis workflow files in the last 7 days.

Most Recent Change: Release v0.22.8 on 2025-10-18 05:02 UTC (general release, not specific to copilot-swe-agent instructions)

Recommendations

Immediate Actions

1. Continue monitoring: One day of zero activity is not concerning - this is normal variation
2. No action needed: Wait for more data before drawing conclusions

Future Improvements

Data Collection

• Historical Rebuild: The metadata indicates historical_rebuild_needed: true. Future runs should gradually build up 30 days of historical data by querying past PRs
• Target: Collect at least 7 days for basic trends, 30 days for comprehensive monthly analysis
• Approach: Query one day at a time to avoid API rate limits and context overflow

Analysis Enhancements

• Once 7+ days of data are available, enable week-over-week comparisons
• Once 30+ days of data are available, enable monthly trend analysis
• Track day-of-week patterns (weekday vs. weekend activity)
• Correlate PR volume with issue creation patterns

Notes

About Copilot-SWE-Agent

The copilot-swe-agent refers to GitHub's Copilot feature where you can assign @copilot to an issue, and Copilot creates a pull request to address that issue. These PRs appear as github-actions[bot] but can be identified by their link to specific issues and their creation method.

Search Methodology

This analysis searched for:

• PRs authored by copilot-swe-agent (direct)
• PRs authored by github-actions[bot] (filtered by workflow patterns)
• PRs created in the time window: 2025-10-17 10:00 UTC to 2025-10-18 10:00 UTC

Result: No copilot-swe-agent PRs found in the target time window. Several other automation PRs were found (Documentation Unbloat, Tidy, Daily Documentation Updater workflows) but these are not copilot-swe-agent PRs.

Next Steps

The next analysis run (tomorrow) will:

1. Add today's data point to the history
2. Begin to build up sufficient data for trend analysis
3. Continue monitoring for copilot-swe-agent activity
4. Once 7+ days are collected, provide week-over-week comparisons

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This analysis was generated automatically by the Copilot Agent Analysis workflow.
Workflow Run: #18614157782
Analysis Time: 2025-10-18 10:00 UTC

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This discussion was automatically closed because it was created by an agentic workflow more than 1 month ago.