Agent Performance Report — 2026-05-31

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 20 (~237 total workflows)
• Quality score: 72/100 (↑1) | Effectiveness: 67/100 (↑1) | Ecosystem health: 79/100 (↑5)
• 🎉 Both P0s CLOSED: [aw-failures] Failure Investigator (6h) — 4 failures, safe_outputs add_comment validation breaks 3 workflows (2026-05-27 19:24 → 2026-05-28 01 [Content truncated due to length] #35351 (safe_outputs validation) + [aw] Copilot CLI Deep Research Agent failed #35388 (Copilot CLI engine)
• Top performers: spec-enforcer (85/100), copilot-swe-agent (84/100), docs-updater (78/100)
• Needs improvement: failure-reporters, daily-safe-output-optimizer, lint-monster, chaos-test

Performance Rankings

Top Performers 🏆

1. spec-enforcer — Quality: 85, Effectiveness: 88, Merge: 100% | Pattern: healthy
2. copilot-swe-agent — Quality: 84, Effectiveness: 82, Merge: 94% | 24 merged PRs/30d | Pattern: over-creation (high quality)
3. docs-updater — Quality: 78, Effectiveness: 72, Merge: 70% | Pattern: healthy
4. github-actions-updater — Quality: 77, Merge: ~85% | Pattern: healthy
5. workflow-health-manager — Score 81/100 | Pattern: healthy

Needs Improvement 📉

1. failure-reporters (Quality: 35, Effectiveness: 20) — repetition + scope-creep

   • 60% duplicate rate, chronic 3+ weeks (tracked: [aw-failures] Contribution Check safe_outputs job fails — agent emits add_comment with target: "*" and no issue_number #35984). Using target:"*" + no issue_number.
   • Rec: Implement dedup gate; require explicit issue_number

2. daily-safe-output-optimizer (Quality: 30, Effectiveness: 15) — over-creation + inconsistency

   • 115 turns / 14.9M tokens runaway (tracked: [aw] Daily Safe Output Tool Optimizer failed #35316).
   • Rec: Hard cap at 20 turns / 2M tokens; add convergence exit condition

3. lint-monster (Quality: 50, Effectiveness: 25) — over-creation + blocked

   • 2218+ backlog, 0% completion, 3+ new issues/day ([lint-monster] [Lint] Fix pkg/workflow function length violations (286 issues) #36050, [lint-monster] [Lint] Fix pkg/cli function length violations (369 issues) #36051, [lint-monster] [Lint] Fix pkg/linters and pkg/parser function length violations (14 issues) #36052).
   • Rec: Reduce batch size to 50; require completion before next batch

4. chaos-test (Quality: 55, Effectiveness: 30) — under-creation + inconsistency

   • 5 open PRs ([chaos-test] [chaos r93] bit-flipper: amend+line-ending-variant #36120–[chaos-test] [chaos r93] commit-sculptor: two-commits+minor-rename #36124), 0 merges — creation stall.
   • Rec: Add merge-or-close gate after 48h

Blocked Agents 🔴 (do not re-file)

Agent	Rate	Tracking
smoke-ci	0% (13 runs)	#35964, #35959, #36018, #36019, #35955, #35954
Q	0% (15 runs)	systemic
ai-moderator	0% (9 runs)	systemic
cgo-ci	0% (9 runs)	PR #35883 pending
agentic-commands	7% (15 runs)	CJS regression
content-moderation	11% (9 runs)	near-zero

Behavioral Patterns & Coverage

Pattern Summary (from pattern-detector)

• healthy: spec-enforcer, docs-updater, github-actions-updater, daily-report, issue-monster, auto-triage, workflow-health-manager, campaign-manager
• blocked: smoke-ci, Q, ai-moderator, cgo-ci, lint-monster (partial)
• degraded: agentic-commands, content-moderation, cjs-workflows
• over-creation: copilot-swe-agent (benign), lint-monster, daily-safe-output-optimizer
• repetition+scope-creep: failure-reporters
• under-creation+inconsistency: chaos-test

Productive Patterns ✅

• P0 resolution velocity: both CLOSED within 24h — good escalation pipeline
• copilot-swe-agent: high volume + 94% merge rate (recent: Harden threat-detection against missing prompt artifact; unblock safe_outputs #36113, Refactor .github/aw instructions into compact indexed references #36114, Add 24-hour per-workflow effective-token guardrail with enterprise defaults and ET shorthand support #36042)
• workflow-health-manager → shared-alerts.md: effective cross-agent coordination

Coverage Gaps

• Security/threat-detection: improving (PR [aw-failures] Threat-detection job fails — prompt.txt not found → blocks safe_outputs (Code Simplifier) #36086, SEC-005 [Safe Outputs Conformance] SEC-005: update_activation_comment.cjs supports target-repo but lacks allowlist check #36079)
• Performance regression tracking: no dedicated agent
• Dedup logic for failure-reporters: unimplemented (4th escalation)

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Assign owner to failure-reporters dedup ([aw-failures] Contribution Check safe_outputs job fails — agent emits add_comment with target: "*" and no issue_number #35984) — 4th consecutive escalation, ~12 dupes/day
2. Add token/turn cap to daily-safe-output-optimizer ([aw] Daily Safe Output Tool Optimizer failed #35316) — 14.9M tokens/run
3. Expedite CGO CI PR [ca] chore: Update agentic CLI tools (Claude Code 2.1.158, Copilot CLI 1.0.56, GitHub MCP Server v1.1.2) #35883 review — unblocks 9 blocked runs

Medium Priority
4. Lint-monster batch size cap (50 items, completion-first policy)
5. Smoke-CI root cause investigation (6+ open issues, worsening)
6. chaos-test PR lifecycle gate (#36120–#36124)

Trends

Metric	Today	Yesterday	Δ
Quality	72/100	71/100	↑1
Effectiveness	67/100	66/100	↑1
Ecosystem health	79/100	74/100	↑5
P0 issues	0	2	↓2 ✅
Blocked agents	5	5	→

Actions Taken

• Performance report created (this discussion)
• agent-performance-latest.md + shared-alerts.md updated in shared memory
• No new improvement issues filed (all critical issues already tracked)

Next Steps: Assign owner to #35984 (dedup) · Merge PR #35883 (CGO) · Investigate smoke-CI root cause · Review chaos-test PR stall

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Period: 2026-05-24 – 2026-05-31 | Next: 2026-06-01
Runs: §26684413824 (prev) · §26713362416 (current)

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• expires on Jun 1, 2026, 1:11 PM UTC