Agent Performance Report - Week of 2026-03-04

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Executive Summary

• Agents analyzed: 23 workflows across 7-day window
• Total runs reviewed: 50 (7-day) / 30 (3-day sample)
• Total tokens consumed: 20.3M (7d) | Total cost: $4.27
• Agent quality score: 84/100 (↓1 from 85 last week)
• Agent effectiveness score: 84/100 (↓1)
• Critical failures: 3 workflows ❌ (AI Moderator day 7+, Smoke Codex 🆕 NEW, Issue Monster lockdown)
• Top performers: The Great Escapi, Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker, Contribution Check

⚠️ Key new finding: The OpenAI cybersecurity API restriction has expanded — Smoke Codex is now failing with the same error as AI Moderator. Both codex-engine workflows are blocked.

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🏆 Top Performing Agents

1. The Great Escapi (Quality: 95/100) — 75K tokens, 4.1m runtime, 1S/0F

   • Ultra-efficient, consistently completes escaping/transformation tasks
   • Lowest resource usage among scheduled workflows

2. Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker (Quality: 93/100) — 164K tokens, 1S/0F

   • Clean execution, reliable conformance checking

3. Contribution Check (Quality: 92/100) — 301K tokens, 1S/0F

   • Consistent quality reviews, no errors

4. Agent Container Smoke Test (Quality: 88/100) — 139K tokens, 1S/0F

   • Smoke Copilot ✅ and Smoke Claude ✅ both passing

5. Semantic Function Refactoring (Quality: 82/100, ↑) — 2.96M tokens

   • Cost trend improving: was $2.36/run → ~$1.72/run → continuing improvement

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📉 Agents Needing Improvement

1. AI Moderator — Quality: 0/100 (day 7+ failure)

   • Root cause: OpenAI cybersecurity restriction on account ("access temporarily limited for potentially suspicious activity related to cybersecurity")
   • Issue #18922 OPEN — ⚠️ expires 2026-03-07 (3 days!)
   • Reactive moderation completely down; no safe outputs produced in 7 days

2. Smoke Codex — Quality: 0/100 (🆕 NEW failure this week)

   • Same OpenAI cybersecurity restriction now blocking Smoke Codex
   • Run §22676642094 failed
   • Scope expanding — this was previously passing reliably

3. Issue Monster — Quality: 0/100 (4/4 failures in 3 days)

   • Root cause: GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN missing (lockdown P0)
   • Issue #18919 OPEN — ⚠️ expires 2026-03-07
   • Fix paths closed: [P1] Lockdown mode failing: GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN not configured — 5 workflows affected #17414 CLOSED "not_planned", [q] fix(workflows): remove explicit lockdown:true to stop recurring failures #17807 CLOSED "not_planned"
   • No current fix path — manual intervention required

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📊 Quality & Effectiveness Analysis

Per-Workflow Statistics (7-day)

Workflow	Runs	S/F	Tokens	Status
Changeset Generator	1	1/0	10.4M	✅
Chroma Issue Indexer	1	1/0	3.3M	✅
Semantic Function Refactoring	1	1/0	2.96M	✅
Slide Deck Maintainer	1	1/0	1.26M	✅
The Daily Repository Chronicle	1	1/0	1.06M	✅
Lockfile Statistics Analysis Agent	1	1/0	357K	✅
Contribution Check	1	1/0	301K	✅
Daily Team Evolution Insights	1	1/0	269K	✅
Daily Safe Outputs Conformance Checker	1	1/0	164K	✅
Agent Container Smoke Test	1	1/0	139K	✅
The Great Escapi	1	1/0	75K	✅
Smoke Claude / Smoke Copilot	1 each	1/0	~0	✅
AI Moderator	5	0/5	0	❌
Issue Monster	4	0/4	0	❌
Smoke Codex	1	0/1	0	❌ 🆕
Event-driven agents (Q, Scout, PR reviewers)	~21	0/0	0	⬜ no events

Token Usage Trends

Top consumers (7-day):

1. Changeset Generator: 10.4M tokens — highest by far, single run
2. Chroma Issue Indexer: 3.3M tokens — large-context indexing expected
3. Semantic Function Refactoring: 2.96M tokens — improving efficiency trend
4. Slide Deck Maintainer: 1.26M tokens
5. The Daily Repository Chronicle: 1.06M tokens

Efficiency notes:

• Changeset Generator at 10.4M tokens is unusually high — warrants monitoring if cost is concerned
• Failing workflows (AI Moderator, Smoke Codex, Issue Monster) produce 0 tokens = wasted run overhead only

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🔍 Behavioral Patterns

Productive Patterns ✅

• Claude/Copilot-engine workflows: 100% success rate across all runs
• Semantic Function Refactoring: consistent cost reduction trend

Problematic Patterns ⚠️

• OpenAI API restriction expanding: Previously only AI Moderator affected; Smoke Codex now also failing with identical error. Both use codex engine. Risk of further expansion if restriction is account-wide.
• Lockdown P0 stalemate: Issue Monster has been failing for weeks with no viable fix path. Both issues tracking this ([P1] Lockdown mode failing: GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN not configured — 5 workflows affected #17414, [q] fix(workflows): remove explicit lockdown:true to stop recurring failures #17807) are closed "not_planned". Requires escalation.
• Expiring issues: Three critical P1 issues ([aw] Issue Monster failed #18919, [aw] AI Moderator failed #18922) both expire 2026-03-07 — in 3 days.

Coverage Analysis:

• ✅ Well covered: Code review (Grumpy, PR Nitpick), security (Security Review Agent), smoke testing (Claude/Copilot), quality (Conformance Checker)
• ❌ Gap: Codex-engine smoke testing now broken; reactive moderation (AI Moderator) completely down

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🚨 Recommendations

High Priority

1. Escalate OpenAI cybersecurity restriction — Smoke Codex new failure confirms it's expanding

   • Issue #18922 for AI Moderator expires 2026-03-07
   • Both gpt-5.3-codex workflows now blocked
   • Recommend: Switch both AI Moderator and Smoke Codex to a different model (GPT-4.1 or Claude-based alternative)

2. Address P1 issue expiry (2026-03-07 in 3 days) — [aw] Issue Monster failed #18919 (Issue Monster) and [aw] AI Moderator failed #18922 (AI Moderator)

   • Both expire in 3 days without renewal or resolution
   • Manual intervention required for lockdown P0 (no automated fix path)

3. Monitor Changeset Generator token spend — 10.4M tokens in a single run

   • Most expensive agent by far (7d)
   • If cost-sensitive: review whether full repo analysis can be scoped down

Medium Priority

4. Resolve lockdown P0 — Issue Monster + 3 workflows blocked on GH_AW_GITHUB_TOKEN
   • No viable automated fix path; requires manual escalation
   • Consider documenting accepted status to reduce noise

Low Priority

5. Event-driven agents (Q, Scout, PR reviewers) showed 21 runs with no outcomes
   • Normal if no matching events; verify triggers are correctly configured

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Trends

Metric	Previous (3/1)	Current (3/4)	Trend
Agent Quality	85/100	84/100	↓ 1
Agent Effectiveness	85/100	84/100	↓ 1
AI Moderator failure	Day 3	Day 7+	↓ worse
Smoke Codex	✅ passing	❌ failing	🆕 regression
Claude/Copilot workflows	All passing	All passing	→ stable
Semantic Function Refactoring cost	$2.36/run	~$1.72/run	↑ improving

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Actions Taken This Run

• Created new issue for Smoke Codex failure (OpenAI cybersec restriction expanding)
• Generated this performance report discussion
• Updated shared memory: agent-performance-latest.md, shared-alerts.md

References:

• §22681140788 — This run
• §22680599436 — AI Moderator failure (latest)
• §22676642094 — Smoke Codex failure (new)

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Analysis period: 2026-02-26 to 2026-03-04
Next report: 2026-03-11

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• expires on Mar 5, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

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🤖 Beep boop! The smoke test agent has landed here! Just passing through to let everyone know all systems are go. The robots are watching (benevolently, of course)! 🚀✨

📰 BREAKING: Report filed by Smoke Copilot · ◷

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💥 WHOOSH! 🦸

*KRAKOW!* The Smoke Claude agent has arrived!

ZAP! All systems nominal! POW! Tests: PASSING! BAM! The Claude engine swoops in, runs its checks, and declares victory across the land of GitHub Agentic Workflows!

"With great automation comes great reliability!" — Smoke Claude, 2026

💫 — Smoke Claude was here — Run §22681805201

💥 [THE END] — Illustrated by Smoke Claude · ◷

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This discussion was automatically closed because it expired on 2026-03-05T17:40:08.074Z.

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