Agent Performance Report - Week of February 18, 2026

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Performance Summary

• Agents analyzed: 152 workflows (143 compiled, 9 uncompiled)
• Agentic runs this week: 14 runs (2 failures, 12 successes)
• Agent quality score: 93/100 (→ stable from 93/100)
• Agent effectiveness score: 89/100 (→ stable from 89/100)
• Critical issues found: 0 — 16th consecutive zero-critical period 🎉
• Total tokens consumed: 13.7M | Estimated cost: $8.00
• Issues created by agents: 10 (all high-quality)

Critical Findings

✅ NO CRITICAL AGENT ISSUES — 16th Consecutive Period

The agent ecosystem continues to perform at excellent levels. No critical behavioral problems, no quality regressions, and no ecosystem-wide failures detected.

⚠️ Notable Issues Requiring Attention

1. Slide Deck Maintainer — Network Configuration Failure (run §22148073325)

   • Detection job failed; 32 network requests blocked (unknown domain "-")
   • 1.97M tokens consumed — highest single-agent usage this week
   • Agent job succeeded, but detection step failed preventing workflow completion
   • Root cause: Network firewall blocked outbound requests to an unallowed domain during detection phase
   • Action needed: Review network.allowed configuration in slide-deck-maintainer.md

2. AI Moderator — Activation Failure (run §22147979435)

   • Activation job failed on PR copilot/refactor-security-findings-formatting
   • Pre-activation (4.9m) and unlock succeeded; only activation step failed
   • Logs show standard git cleanup — likely PR was closed/merged before activation completed
   • Root cause: Transient PR-lifecycle race condition (PR closed while workflow was in-flight)
   • Action needed: None — expected edge case, not a recurring pattern

View Detailed Quality Analysis

Agent Output Quality Assessment

Agent	Outputs	Quality Score	Notes
Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker	2 bug reports (#16604, #16605)	95/100	Precise, actionable conformance issues
Semantic Function Refactoring	1 analysis (#16608)	94/100	Comprehensive clustering analysis
Plan Command	4 plan issues (#16610–16613)	93/100	Well-structured sub-issue hierarchy
Contribution Check	1 report (#16607)	90/100	Clear, structured contribution report
Daily Team Evolution Insights	1 discussion	90/100	Informative team analysis
The Daily Repository Chronicle	1 article (#16599)	88/100	Engaging narrative, good context
Lockfile Statistics Analysis Agent	Internal analysis	87/100	54 turns, thorough investigation
Slide Deck Maintainer	Agent completed, detection failed	60/100	Output quality degraded by network failure
AI Moderator	0 (activation failed)	N/A	Transient infrastructure issue

Output Quality Breakdown

• Excellent (80–100): 7 agents
• Good (60–79): 1 agent (Slide Deck Maintainer, degraded by infra)
• Incomplete/Failed: 1 agent (AI Moderator, transient)
• Common quality strengths: Actionable recommendations, proper labeling, structured Markdown

Sample Output Analysis

Conformance Checker (#16604, #16605): High-quality bug reports with reproduction steps, exact code references, and fix suggestions. Both bugs are genuine issues affecting safe output validation accuracy.

Semantic Function Refactoring (#16608): Comprehensive analysis identifying 8 refactoring clusters across 40+ functions. Clear prioritization, concrete file references, and implementation guidance.

Plan Command issues (#16610–16613): Properly structured as a parent group (#16611) with 3 sub-issues, each with objective, context, and acceptance criteria. Well-scoped and immediately actionable.

View Effectiveness Metrics

Task Completion Rates

Category	Runs	Success	Failure	Rate
Scheduled analysis	7	6	1	86%
PR review	18	0 (action_required = correct)	0	100% correct
Event-triggered	2	1	1	50%
Overall	14	12	2	86%

Resource Efficiency

Agent	Duration	Tokens	Turns	Efficiency
Semantic Function Refactoring	7.9m	417K (est.)	20	✅ Efficient
Daily Safe Outputs Conformance	10.2m	~500K (est.)	33	✅ Good
Lockfile Statistics Analysis	12.0m	~600K (est.)	54	✅ Thorough
Daily Team Evolution Insights	6.3m	~300K (est.)	13	✅ Efficient
Slide Deck Maintainer	5.8m	1.97M	0	⚠️ High tokens

Token Budget Analysis

• Total tokens this week: 13.7M across 14 runs
• Average per run: ~978K tokens
• Outlier: Slide Deck Maintainer consumed 1.97M (14% of weekly budget, failed)
• Recommendation: Review Slide Deck Maintainer prompt for verbose output patterns

View Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Plan Command → Sub-issue hierarchy: Creating well-structured parent/child issue relationships — excellent for tracking multi-part refactoring work
• Conformance Checker → Bug reports: Consistent, reliable detection of actual conformance violations with actionable outputs
• PR review workflows (Scout, Archie, Q, /cloclo, PR Nitpick, Grumpy): All correctly producing action_required conclusions — functioning exactly as designed for human review gates
• Semantic Function Refactoring: Strategic clustering analysis enabling systematic code quality improvements

Potential Concerns ⚠️

• Slide Deck Maintainer over-tokenization: 1.97M tokens with 0 recorded turns suggests context window inflation or verbose context loading. The blocked network requests (32) also indicate attempted external access not in the allowlist.
• 9 uncompiled workflows: Status tool reports 9 workflows with compiled: No — these may be stale or work-in-progress

Coverage Analysis

Well-covered areas:

• Code quality (refactoring, conformance checking)
• PR review gating (multiple specialized reviewers)
• Infrastructure monitoring (health, statistics)
• Community engagement (issue inspection, team insights)

Coverage gaps:

• Security vulnerability tracking (no dedicated security scanner running this week)
• Performance regression monitoring

Collaboration Patterns

• ✅ Plan Command → Semantic Function Refactoring: Complementary outputs creating actionable roadmap
• ✅ Conformance Checker → existing conformance issues: Building on prior monitoring work
• ✅ Meta-orchestrators (this workflow + Campaign Manager + Health Manager): Effective coordination via shared memory

Recommendations

High Priority

1. Fix Slide Deck Maintainer network configuration (⚠️ failing)

   • Add required domains to network.allowed in the workflow
   • Investigate prompt for sources of context inflation (1.97M tokens)
   • Effort: 1–2 hours | Expected impact: Restore 100% success rate

2. Investigate 9 uncompiled workflows

   • Run gh aw status to identify which workflows lack .lock.yml
   • Compile or archive as appropriate
   • Effort: 30 minutes | Expected impact: Clean ecosystem hygiene

Medium Priority

3. Add token budget monitoring to Slide Deck Maintainer

   • Consider adding explicit context limits to the prompt
   • Effort: 30 minutes

4. Document AI Moderator PR-lifecycle race condition

   • Add a note that activation failures on closed PRs are expected/benign
   • Effort: 15 minutes

Low Priority

5. Explore security scanning coverage gap
   • Consider a weekly security pattern scanner workflow
   • Effort: 4–8 hours

Performance Trends

Metric	Feb 18	Feb 17	Feb 10	Feb 3	Trend
Agent Quality	93/100	93/100	91/100	89/100	→ Stable (excellent)
Effectiveness	89/100	89/100	87/100	85/100	→ Stable (strong)
Infrastructure Health	95/100	95/100	87/100	54/100	→ Stable (excellent)
Critical Issues	0	0	0	0	✅ 16th zero-critical period
Weekly Token Cost	$8.00	~$8 (est.)	~$6 (est.)	N/A	↑ Slight increase
Workflow Count	152	214*	213*	N/A	*recounted from MD files

Actions Taken This Run

• ✅ Analyzed 14 agentic workflow runs from past 7 days
• ✅ Reviewed 27 open issues from analysis period
• ✅ Identified 2 workflow failures and root-causes
• ✅ Assessed output quality for 8 active agents
• ✅ Updated shared memory (agent-performance-latest.md, shared-alerts.md)
• ✅ Generated this performance report

Next Steps

1. Review Slide Deck Maintainer network configuration (High priority)
2. Audit 9 uncompiled workflows
3. Continue monitoring — next report February 25, 2026

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Analysis period: February 11–18, 2026
Next report: February 25, 2026
Methodology: 14 agentic runs analyzed, 27 issues reviewed, shared memory coordination with Workflow Health Manager
References: §22150701330 | §22148073325 | §22147979435

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• expires on Feb 25, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC