Agent Performance Report — Week of Apr 14, 2026

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: ~187 compiled workflows (~124 copilot, ~41 claude, ~18 codex, ~4 others)
• Total outputs reviewed: Issues created Apr 11–14, workflow run data, repo memory
• Overall quality score: 74/100 (↑1 from 73)
• Overall effectiveness score: 66/100 (↑1 from 65)
• Top performers: CLI Version Checker, Semantic Function Refactoring, Copilot Coding Agent, Issue Monster
• Needs attention: Smoke Claude (schedule), Smoke Gemini, Daily Semgrep Scan, Documentation Unbloat

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Performance Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. CLI Version Checker (Quality: 92/100, Effectiveness: 94/100)

• This run's standout: issue #26158 covered 4 simultaneous CLI upgrades (Copilot 1.0.25, Claude Code 2.1.105, Codex 0.120.0, Gemini 0.37.2)
• Produced comprehensive impact assessments with <details> sections, risk ratings, and upgrade rationale
• Correctly identified new --remote/--no-remote flags in Copilot 1.0.25 with actionable validation recommendations
• Consistent delivery: high-quality report every run, zero noise

2. Semantic Function Refactoring (Quality: 88/100, Effectiveness: 84/100)

• Issue #26018 analyzed 668 Go files (2,914+ functions), found 2 actionable issues plus positive findings
• Discovered medium-severity latent bug: redundant workflow.SetVersion() in main.go
• Well-structured: issue/recommendation/checklist format; 2 comments + 1 👁️ reaction (engagement)
• Correctly distinguished intentional WASM patterns from defects

3. Copilot Coding Agent (GitHub SWE Agent) (Quality: 85/100, Effectiveness: 88/100)

• 20 PRs merged Apr 12–13: OTel spans, SEC-004 sanitization, cache cleanup, multiple agent assignments
• Demonstrates strong multi-PR throughput with high merge rate (~95%)
• Consistent code quality; operating well within scope

4. Issue Monster (Quality: 87/100, Effectiveness: 90/100)

• Reliable issue lifecycle management: 5/5 issues properly tracked
• Good triage and prioritization; minimal false positives
• Creates well-labeled, correctly-categorized issues

5. Agentic Maintenance (Quality: 83/100, Effectiveness: 82/100)

• Added cache cleanup logic correctly
• Well-scoped changes; no regressions introduced

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Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. Smoke Gemini (Quality: 10/100, Effectiveness: 10/100)

• Status: 100% failure rate — open issue #25216
• Root cause: Gemini CLI 0.37.0 compatibility issue
• **New (redacted) Gemini 0.37.2 was released Apr 13 (tracked in [ca] CLI Version Updates: Claude Code 2.1.105, Copilot 1.0.25, Codex 0.120.0, Gemini 0.37.2 #26158) — upgrade may resolve this
• Recommendation: Trigger a new smoke run after CLI version bump is applied

2. Smoke Claude (Schedule only) (Quality: 40/100, Effectiveness: 35/100)

• Fails on daily schedule; passes on PR-triggered runs — environment-specific issue ([aw] Smoke Claude failed #25727)
• Pattern suggests auth token or MCP initialization differs between schedule vs. PR contexts
• Recommendation: Compare environment variables between schedule and PR activation jobs; add diagnostic step to capture MCP initialization output

3. Daily Semgrep Scan (Quality: 45/100, Effectiveness: 40/100)

• New failure Apr 13 — 0/1 success (issue created by Workflow Health Manager)
• Security scan degraded; P2 priority
• Recommendation: Review semgrep configuration for compatibility with Copilot 1.0.25+

4. Smoke Cross-Repo PR Create/Update (Quality: 20/100, Effectiveness: 20/100)

• Both #25221 and #25217 remain open (persistent since Apr 8)
• No fix applied in 6+ days
• Recommendation: Escalate — investigate cross-repo permissions or token scope for PR creation

5. Documentation Unbloat (Quality: 55/100, Effectiveness: 50/100)

• ~50% success rate; costs ~$55/week (Claude engine)
• Inconsistent behavior suggests prompt or context sensitivity issues
• Recommendation: Add pre-flight check to verify docs structure before running; consider failure threshold to auto-skip if preconditions unmet

6. Daily Issues Report (Quality: 50/100, Effectiveness: 45/100)

• Recurring Copilot agent crash pattern ([aw] Daily Issues Report Generator failed #25265, [deep-report] Investigate and fix Daily Issues Report Generator 17-day fetch failure #25503)
• Not fixed despite multiple open tracking issues
• Recommendation: Add error recovery / retry logic or reduce scope of single run

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Quality Distribution Breakdown

Tier	Score Range	Count	Examples
Excellent	80–100	~8	CLI Version Checker, Issue Monster, Semantic Refactoring, Copilot Coding Agent
Good	60–79	~12	Agentic Maintenance, Smoke Copilot, Contribution Check, CLI Perf Agent, Dependabot Checker
Fair	40–59	~5	Daily Semgrep, Documentation Unbloat, Daily Issues Report
Poor	<40	~3	Smoke Claude (schedule), Smoke Gemini, Smoke Cross-Repo

Effectiveness Analysis

Task Completion Rates

• High (>80%): ~8 agents — CLI Version Checker, Issue Monster, Copilot Coding Agent, Agentic Maintenance
• Medium (50–80%): ~12 agents — most daily analysis/reporting workflows
• Low (<50%): ~5 agents — smoke tests with infrastructure failures

PR Merge Statistics (Copilot Coding Agent)

• 20 PRs merged Apr 12–13 (est. >90% merge rate)
• All on-scope: OTel, security, infrastructure fixes

Key Recoveries (vs. Apr 13)

• ✅ Smoke Copilot: RECOVERED (had been failing; now scheduled pass)
• ✅ Contribution Check: RECOVERED (was reporting report_incomplete)

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Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• CLI Version Checker → Smoke workflows cascade: Version checker correctly flags upgrades; smoke tests validate real-world compatibility
• Copilot Coding Agent high-volume merges: 20 PRs in 48h with high quality — strong agent throughput with low defect rate
• Meta-orchestrator memory sharing: Workflow Health and Agent Performance are correctly coordinating via shared-alerts.md — no duplicate issue creation this cycle

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• Persistent smoke test failures not being escalated: Cross-repo PR failures ([aw] Smoke Create Cross-Repo PR failed #25221, [aw] Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR failed #25217) open 6+ days without fix — tracking issues created but no resolution
• Schedule vs. PR context divergence (Smoke Claude): Suggests environment setup may differ by trigger type — a systemic risk affecting any environment-sensitive workflow
• Cost runaway in inconsistent workflow (Documentation Unbloat): ~$55/week for 50% success is a poor cost-to-value ratio — needs either fix or disable

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Coverage Analysis

Well-Covered Areas ✅

• CLI version tracking and upgrade management
• Code quality analysis (semantic refactoring, code scanning)
• Security patching (Copilot Coding Agent PR throughput)
• Smoke testing for Copilot and Codex engines
• Dependency management (Dependabot checker)
• Meta-orchestration (health monitoring, performance analysis)

Coverage Gaps ⚠️

• Gemini engine effectively uncovered (100% smoke fail since 0.37.0)
• Cross-repo operations — both cross-repo PR workflows failing, no owner investigating
• Claude schedule runs — validated on PR only; daily schedule reliability unknown

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Recommendations

High Priority 🔴

1. Apply Gemini 0.37.2 CLI bump and re-run Smoke Gemini

   • Issue [ca] CLI Version Updates: Claude Code 2.1.105, Copilot 1.0.25, Codex 0.120.0, Gemini 0.37.2 #26158 tracks the 0.37.2 release; a CLI version bump should be applied
   • Estimated effort: ~30 min (run CLI bump + validate smoke)
   • Expected improvement: Potentially resolves 100% failure → healthy

2. Investigate Smoke Claude schedule/PR environment divergence

   • Add diagnostic step capturing MCP init logs and env vars in schedule run
   • Compare token scopes between push and schedule event contexts
   • Estimated effort: 2–3 hours
   • Expected improvement: +30 points effectiveness

3. Triage Daily Semgrep Scan failure (Apr 13)

   • P2 security signal degraded — no coverage for new code introduced after Apr 12
   • Estimated effort: 1–2 hours

Medium Priority 🟡

4. Escalate Smoke Cross-Repo failures ([aw] Smoke Create Cross-Repo PR failed #25221, [aw] Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR failed #25217 — 6 days stale)

   • Assign to human or specialized agent for investigation
   • Review cross-repo token/permission model

5. Add cost gate to Documentation Unbloat

   • Implement pre-flight check; skip run if preconditions fail
   • Cap Claude usage on inconsistent runs

6. Fix Daily Issues Report crash loop ([aw] Daily Issues Report Generator failed #25265, [deep-report] Investigate and fix Daily Issues Report Generator 17-day fetch failure #25503)

   • Add retry logic or reduce data scope per run

Low Priority 🟢

7. Update Smoke Gemini issue ([aw] Smoke Gemini failed #25216) with 0.37.2 availability note
8. Consider adding Copilot 1.0.25 --remote flag validation to smoke suite
9. Review 15+ stale open failure issues from Apr 8–11 for triage/close

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Trends

Metric	Apr 7	Apr 8	Apr 9	Apr 10	Apr 11	Apr 12	Apr 13	Apr 14
Quality	70	67	68	70	70	73	73	74
Effectiveness	60	58	60	62	62	65	65	66
WF Health	—	68	71	73	71	70	75	74

• Overall trend: gradual improvement (Q +7 pts over 7 days)
• Recoveries this week: Smoke Copilot, Contribution Check
• New concerns: Daily Semgrep, Copilot 1.0.25 validation needed

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Actions Taken This Run

• Generated this weekly performance report discussion
• Updated agent-performance-latest.md and shared-alerts.md in repo memory
• No new improvement issues created (existing tracking covers active issues; [ca] CLI Version Updates: Claude Code 2.1.105, Copilot 1.0.25, Codex 0.120.0, Gemini 0.37.2 #26158 already tracks Gemini 0.37.2 upgrade opportunity)

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Analysis period: Apr 8, 2026 → Apr 14, 2026
Next report: Apr 15, 2026 (daily) / Apr 21, 2026 (weekly)

References:

• §24381155966 — This run
• §24380814790 — CLI Version Checker (Apr 14)
• §24341490268 — Semantic Function Refactoring (Apr 13)

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