Agent Performance Report — Week of February 19, 2026 🎉 17th Zero-Critical Period

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Performance Summary

• Agents analyzed: 152 workflows (100% compiled ✅)
• Agentic runs this period: 25 (22 success, 3 failure)
• Run success rate: 88% (↑ +2% from last week)
• Overall agent quality score: 93/100 (→ stable)
• Overall effectiveness score: 88/100 (↓ -1, minor)
• Critical agent issues: 0 — 17th consecutive zero-critical period! 🎉
• Weekly token cost: ~$6.87 (~14% less than previous week)
• Safe items created: 14

Critical Findings

✅ No critical blocking issues this period.

Two notable failures (neither is an agent quality regression):

⚠️ Daily Copilot PR Merged Report — Failed (run §22187864127)

• Root cause: gh pr list invoked with merged:>=DATE as positional arg instead of --search "merged:>=DATE"
• Impact: Daily PR merged report not published; safe_outputs job skipped
• Action: Fix safe-inputs command in workflow prompt (30-min fix)

⚠️ Smoke macOS ARM64 — Failed ×2 (runs §22190930467, §22190175184)

• Root cause: Missing /tmp/gh-aw/aw-prompts/prompt.txt — environment/infrastructure issue
• Impact: macOS ARM64 smoke tests not executing
• Action: Investigate upstream trigger conditions

✅ Previous Alert RESOLVED: Slide Deck Maintainer network config fixed — running successfully.

View Agent Quality Rankings

Top Performing Agents 🏆

1. Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker (Quality: 95/100)

   • 39 turns, 2.11M tokens, $2.09 — zero errors
   • Consistent precise analysis with actionable bug reports
   • Today's run: §22191779279

2. Lockfile Statistics Analysis Agent (Quality: 92/100)

   • 34 turns, 1.84M tokens, $2.34 — comprehensive analysis
   • Created insightful statistics discussion; strong depth
   • Run: §22190979083

3. Semantic Function Refactoring (Quality: 90/100)

   • 75 turns, 1.32M tokens, $1.66 — created issue [refactor] Semantic Function Clustering Analysis: Duplicates and Outliers #16889
   • High turn count but thorough code analysis using Serena 52×
   • Run: §22192254281

4. Daily Team Evolution Insights (Quality: 90/100)

   • 9 turns — highly efficient, relevant insights
   • Run: §22189781206

5. Smoke Codex (Quality: 90/100)

   • Two successful runs (17 turns + 7 turns) — reliable and consistent

Agents with Notable Issues 📉

Agent	Issue	Severity
Daily Copilot PR Merged Report	gh pr list arg parsing failure	🔴 High
Smoke macOS ARM64	Missing prompt file (infra)	🟡 Medium
Duplicate Code Detector	FORBIDDEN GraphQL error	🟡 Medium

View Cost & Efficiency Analysis

Token Cost Breakdown

Agent	Tokens	Cost	Turns	Status
Lockfile Statistics Analysis	1.84M	$2.34	34	✅ Success
Daily Safe Outputs Conformance	2.11M	$2.09	39	✅ Success
Semantic Function Refactoring	1.32M	$1.66	75	✅ Success
All Others (~21 runs)	~60.6M	~$0.78	~41	Mixed
TOTAL	65.9M	$6.87	189	88% success

Key observation: Top 3 analytical agents consume 89% of weekly token budget ($6.09 of $6.87). All three are Claude-engine agents doing deep repository analysis.

Efficiency Trends

• Cost per run: $0.275 (↓ from $0.571 last week — improved efficiency)
• Turns per run: 7.6 avg (reasonable)
• Blocked network requests: high for all Claude agents (64–96 blocked per run) — firewall working as intended

View Behavioral Patterns & Coverage

Productive Patterns ✅

• Claude analytical agents: Deep repository analysis pattern (Serena + bash + safeoutputs) working well
• Scheduled smoke tests: Codex smoke tests running reliably on both Linux and macOS (when ARM64 env available)
• Daily reporters: Chronicle, Team Evolution, Copilot PR Report (mostly) — good content cadence
• Conformance checker + Plan Command: High-quality issue creation with clear acceptance criteria

Patterns to Monitor ⚠️

• High turn counts: Semantic Function Refactoring at 75 turns; serena_get_symbols_overview called 52 times in one run — may indicate over-exploration
• Blocked requests: 64–96 blocked requests per Claude run — these are likely internal DNS lookups; worth monitoring for anomalies
• Safe-inputs gh CLI usage: Daily Copilot PR Merged Report hit a gh pr list argument parsing bug that was not caught before execution

Coverage Analysis

• Well covered: Code quality analysis, safe outputs conformance, team metrics, smoke testing, PR/issue management
• Currently impaired: macOS ARM64 smoke testing (infra issue), lockdown-auth workflows (missing token), PR merged report
• Ecosystem balance: 104 Copilot (68%), 37 Claude (24%), 11 Codex (7%) — healthy diversity

View Infrastructure Health Context

Workflow Health Snapshot (from Workflow Health Manager, 2026-02-19)

• Overall health score: 88/100 (↓ -7 from 95)
• 152/152 compiled (100% ✅)
• 16 outdated lock files (MD newer than lock — needs make recompile)
• 3 scheduled workflow failures:
  • PR Triage Agent + Daily Issues Report Generator: GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN secret missing for lockdown mode
  • Duplicate Code Detector: FORBIDDEN error via GraphQL (replaceActorsForAssignable)

Previous Recommendations Follow-up

Recommendation	Status
Fix Slide Deck Maintainer network config	✅ RESOLVED
Audit 9 uncompiled workflows	✅ RESOLVED (100% compiled now)
Add token monitoring to high-cost agents	🟡 Pending
Document AI Moderator race condition	🟡 Pending

Recommendations

🔴 High Priority

1. Fix Daily Copilot PR Merged Report — use --search "merged:>=DATE" flag in gh pr list call (30-min fix)
2. Set GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN secret — fixes PR Triage Agent + Daily Issues Report Generator (15+ lockdown workflows at risk)

🟡 Medium Priority

3. Recompile 16 outdated lock files — run make recompile
4. Investigate Smoke macOS ARM64 prompt file missing issue (2 consecutive failures)
5. Optimize Lockfile Statistics Agent — most expensive run at $2.34; review pip install on every run
6. Fix Duplicate Code Detector FORBIDDEN GraphQL error for Copilot assignment

🟢 Low Priority

7. Document expected turn count ranges for high-turn agents (Semantic Refactoring at 75 turns)

Trends

• Agent quality: 93/100 (→ stable, sustained excellence)
• Run success rate: 88% (↑ from 86%)
• Cost efficiency: ↑ improved ($6.87 vs ~$8.00 previous week)
• Zero-critical streak: 17 consecutive periods 🎉

References:

• §22192877278 — This analysis run
• §22187864127 — Daily Copilot PR Merged Report failure
• §22191779279 — Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker

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