Agent Performance Report — Week of Jul 29, 2026

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 20 (active in latest 100-run sample) + historical context from Jul 8 snapshot
• Sample: 100 most recent Actions runs (2026-07-29), cross-checked with agent-performance-latest.md/shared-alerts.md (last full run Jul 8) and 100 recent merged copilot-swe-agent PRs
• Copilot SWE Agent PR volume: ≥100 merged PRs against repo github/gh-aw in the sampled window — very high throughput, consistent with prior "Active ✅" rating
• Regression detected: Three workflows that had dedicated closed fix-issues are back in action_required today — closure was premature
• Persistent underperformers: Agentic Commands (61% AR), AI Moderator (40% AR), Q (elevated skip/AR rate) — all previously flagged, still unresolved after 3 weeks

Key Findings

🔴 Regression: fixed-and-closed issues reopening same-week

Workflow	Current AR% (Jul 29 sample)	Related closed issue	Closed	Gap
Stale Lock Files	100% (2/2)	#48131 "[aw] Stale Lock Files workflow produced action_required"	Jul 27	AR resumed within 2 days
PR Description Updater	100% (2/2)	#44510, #44954, #47925 (all closed, same root cause)	Jul 25 (#47925 latest)	AR resumed within 4 days
Label Closed PRs	100% (2/2)	#44663, #44954, #47925 (all closed)	Jul 25	AR resumed within 4 days

This is the same "premature closure" pattern already logged for AI Moderator on Jul 8 (#43925 closed → 4/4 AR next day). It is now a 3rd/4th recurrence across 4 different workflows, suggesting closures are being made on partial fixes or single green runs rather than a sustained-success verification window.

🟠 Persistent underperformers (unresolved since Jul 8)

Agent	Jul 29 AR%	Jul 8 status	Note
Agentic Commands	61% (11/18)	79% AR, issue #43079 (DO NOT RE-FILE)	Still elevated; existing issue not moving the needle
AI Moderator	40% AR + 40% skipped	100% skip, #44241/#aw_ai_mod_jul8 (DO NOT RE-FILE)	Some improvement (40% vs 100%) but still unstable — mixed skip/AR/cancelled states in one sample
Q	22% AR + 78% skipped	79% AR, quality-gate PR #43527 pending	Skip rate now dominant — check whether Q is skip-gated intentionally or silently failing to activate

🟢 Stable / recovered

Auto-Triage Issues (4/4 success), Avenger (2/2), CWI (2/2), Doc Build – Deploy (2/2), PR Sous Chef (2/2), Agentic Maintenance (2/3 success) — consistent with Jul 8 "Stable/Recovered" ratings.

Behavioral Patterns

• Premature-closure pattern (systemic): 4 workflows now show issue-closed-then-AR-resumed within days (AI Moderator, Stale Lock Files, PR Description Updater, Label Closed PRs). Root cause across the latter two is documented as the same CLI-hang-on-exit cluster from Jul 8 (fix PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254) — closing individual per-workflow issues without confirming the shared root-cause fix actually merged and held.
• High-volume, high-throughput agent: Copilot SWE Agent continues very high merged-PR volume; no negative quality signal found in the merged-PR title sample (clear conventional-commit style titles, scoped changes).
• Skip vs. AR ambiguity for Q: Q shows majority "skipped" rather than "action_required" in the newer sample — different failure mode than the 79% AR reported Jul 8. Needs Workflow Health Manager to confirm whether this is the quality-gate (PR Add shared prompt quality gate for plateaued agent-review workflows #43527) now correctly skipping, or a new silent-failure mode.

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Do not close workflow-health issues on a single green run. Require 3+ consecutive successful runs before closing AR-cluster issues (Stale Lock Files, PR Description Updater, Label Closed PRs all reopened within days of closure). Expected impact: stop the closure/reopen churn consuming duplicate issue-filing effort.
2. Verify PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 (CLI hang-on-exit fix) actually merged and is active in Label Closed PRs / PR Description Updater / Stale Lock Files. If merged but AR persists, the fix is incomplete or a regression was reintroduced — escalate to Workflow Health Manager.
3. Re-audit Agentic Commands (61% AR, unchanged for 3+ weeks despite existing issue [aw] Impeccable Skills Reviewer failed #43079) — the current fix is not resolving the failure; escalate for owner action rather than continued DO-NOT-REFILE tracking.

Medium Priority

4. Clarify Q's skip vs. AR classification with Workflow Health Manager before assuming stability.
5. Continue monitoring AI Moderator — partial improvement (100%→40% AR) suggests the Codex-engine fix is having effect but is not fully resolved.

Trends (vs. Jul 8 snapshot)

• AI Moderator: 100% skip/AR → 40% AR + 40% skip (partial improvement)
• Agentic Commands: 79% AR → 61% AR (slight improvement, still high)
• New regression signal: 3 previously-closed issues reopened as active failures within the past week

Actions Taken This Run

• Filed 1 new issue documenting the premature-closure regression pattern across 4 workflows
• No duplicate issues filed for already-tracked persistent problems (Agentic Commands [aw] Impeccable Skills Reviewer failed #43079, AI Moderator #aw_ai_mod_jul8, CLI hang-on-exit fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254)

Next Steps

1. Workflow Health Manager to confirm PR fix: reduce post-completion idle watchdog and add cleanup timeouts to prevent Copilot CLI hang on exit #44254 merge status and re-verify Stale Lock Files / PR Description Updater / Label Closed PRs over a 3-day window before any future closure
2. Escalate Agentic Commands to a maintainer for root-cause fix (existing issue stalled)
3. Clarify Q's current failure mode (skip-gate vs. silent failure)
4. Re-run full metrics collection once GitHub API access is confirmed stable in metrics-extractor (Jan 2026 daily files show collection_status: partial / no-data — historical trend analysis is currently blind between mid-Jan and Jul 8)

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Analysis period: Jul 8 – Jul 29, 2026 (partial: relies on Jul 8 full snapshot + Jul 29 spot sample of 100 runs due to metrics collector gap)
Next report: Aug 5, 2026

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