Agent Performance Report — Week of 2026-05-01

[github-actions[bot]]

Executive Summary

• Analysis period: 2026-04-24 → 2026-05-01
• Agents analyzed: 129 workflows (15 non-agentic)
• Overall quality score: 74/100 (→ stable, day 5 unchanged)
• Overall effectiveness score: 71/100 (→ stable)
• 7-day success rate trend: 93%→94%→95%→93%→57%→73%→85% (recovering)
• Today's runs (50 sampled): 17 success, 0 failures, 16 skipped, 17 in-progress/other
• New P0 today: Gemini API_KEY_INVALID failures across multiple smoke tests

Top Performers 🏆

1. Test Quality Sentinel (Q:90 E:92) — 3/3 success — Consistent, high-signal test analysis
2. Smoke CI (Q:88 E:87) — Reliable infra health gatekeeper; 1 success today
3. Daily Caveman Optimizer (Q:85 E:85) — Efficient code quality improvements
4. Static Analysis Report (Q:83 E:82) — 100% today; created 4 actionable security issues ([static-analysis] RGS-004: Comment-Triggered Workflow Without Author Authorization Check #29460–29463)
5. [aw] Failure Investigator (6h) (Q:82 E:80) — 100% success; strong root-cause analysis

Agents Needing Improvement 📉

1. Daily Fact About gh-aw (Q:10 E:0) — Day 9+ Codex crash ([aw] Daily Fact About gh-aw failed #29088)

   • Issue: codex: command not found — binary not in PATH
   • Recommendation: Pin to copilot engine fallback or fix codex installation

2. GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test (Q:10 E:0) — Day 10+ ([aw] GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test failed #27965)

   • Issue: Model-not-supported infrastructure error — 0 tokens consumed
   • Recommendation: Skip gracefully or remove pending infrastructure fix

3. Daily AW Cross-Repo Compile Check — in_progress 43+ min today (expected ~10 min)

   • Potential MCP timeout / hang pattern
   • Recommendation: Add explicit timeout guard; check for MCP inactivity issue

4. Safe Outputs batch failures (7 workflows yesterday): Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier, Developer Documentation Consolidator, Daily AstroStyleLite Markdown Spellcheck, Instructions Janitor, Daily Community Attribution Updater, Daily Issues Report Generator

   • Root cause: Agent crashes without OTEL tracing — safe_outputs job never reached
   • Recommendation: Investigate upstream agent crash causes; add retry pattern

5. Design Decision Gate 🏗️ (Q:62 E:60) — 67% success (2/3)

   • 1 failure on PR copilot/add-github-ref-constraint-support
   • Recommendation: Review decision gate prompt for ambiguous PRs

New Issue Today: Gemini Engine Failures 🆕

• P0: Smoke Gemini, Smoke Crush, Smoke OpenCode all failing with API_KEY_INVALID
• Issues created: [aw] Smoke Gemini failed #29421, [aw] Smoke Crush failed #29422, [aw] Smoke OpenCode failed #29423, engine: gemini — API_KEY_INVALID despite valid AI Studio key (api-proxy not injecting key into requests) #29417, [aw-failures] [P0] Smoke Engine Failures: Gemini API_KEY_INVALID + Crush EROFS Install #29459
• Pattern: Gemini/OpenCode API key not being injected by api-proxy
• Impact: Any workflow using engine: gemini is currently broken
• Status: Active investigation ongoing (Issue [aw-failures] [P0] Smoke Engine Failures: Gemini API_KEY_INVALID + Crush EROFS Install #29459 tracking P0)

Behavioral Patterns

Productive ✅

• Static Analysis Report → creates actionable security issues immediately
• Failure Investigator → effective root cause capture within 6h window
• Issue Monster → 100% success, consistent issue lifecycle management
• Content Moderation + AI Moderator → complementary dual-layer safety

Problematic ⚠️

• Skipped workflows high ratio: 16/50 recent runs skipped — many slash-command workflows triggering on every comment but skipping due to conditions. Normal behavior but noisy.
• P1 backlog stagnant at 13 open items — recommendations from this workflow are not being acted upon; consider escalation or automated PR creation
• Daily Cross-Repo Compile Check hung 43+ min — potential resource leak or MCP timeout pattern

Coverage Analysis

Well covered: Campaign orchestration, CI health, code quality, security analysis, documentation
Gaps: Performance regression tracking (issues #27280-#27278 open, no dedicated monitor), Gemini/alternative engine validation (just discovered gap today)
Redundancy: Multiple daily report generators producing similar health summaries — consider consolidating into a single dashboard

7-Day Trend Summary

Metric	Apr 25	Apr 26	Apr 27	Apr 28	Apr 29	Apr 30	May 1
Quality	72	73	74	74	74	74	74
Effectiveness	68	69	70	71	71	71	71
Success rate	93%	94%	95%	57%	73%	85%	~85%

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Fix Gemini API_KEY_INVALID (P0, [aw-failures] [P0] Smoke Engine Failures: Gemini API_KEY_INVALID + Crush EROFS Install #29459) — all Gemini workflows broken
2. Fix Codex binary PATH (P0, [aw] Daily Fact About gh-aw failed #29088) — Daily Fact fails every day
3. Investigate Daily AW Cross-Repo Compile Check hang — potential MCP timeout

Medium Priority
4. Address P1 backlog stagnation (13 items open, 5+ days) — assign owners or auto-create PRs
5. Root-cause safe_outputs batch failures — 7 workflows affected yesterday
6. Fix GitHub Remote MCP Auth (P1, #27965) — Day 10+

Low Priority
7. Consolidate redundant daily report generators
8. Add Gemini/alternative engine coverage to nightly smoke tests (now done for Gemini, expand scope)

Actions Taken This Run

• Generated this performance report discussion
• No new improvement issues created (existing issues [aw] Daily Fact About gh-aw failed #29088, [aw] GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test failed #27965, [aw-failures] [P0] Smoke Engine Failures: Gemini API_KEY_INVALID + Crush EROFS Install #29459 cover active failures)
• Updated shared agent memory

---

Analysis period: 2026-04-25 → 2026-05-01 | Run: §25207518271
Next report: 2026-05-08

Generated by Agent Performance Analyzer - Meta-Orchestrator · ● 884.2K · ◷

• expires on May 2, 2026, 8:13 AM UTC

[github-actions[bot]]

This discussion was automatically closed because it expired on 2026-05-02T08:13:26.283Z.

Closed by Workflow