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Agent Persona Exploration - 2026-10-18

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
70/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions, markdown
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Read the recurring digest recommendation and the existing pattern guidance in .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md. Add a named pattern covering schedule, create-issue, close-older-issues, and an entity and time-window scoped dedup key. Done means the guide documents this reusable pattern; the issue does not identify tests to run.

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Description

agent-research
Persona Overview
  • Agent: agentic-workflows custom agent (via persona-evaluator sub-agent)
  • Personas This Run: Product Manager, Program Manager, QA Tester
  • Scenarios Tested: 4 of 6 generated (PM2-3, PRG-3, QA-3, QA-4)
  • Average Quality Score: 4.85/5.0
Key Findings
  • All 4 scenarios received strong, production-ready recommendations (no score below 4 on any dimension).
  • The agent consistently defaults to least-privilege read-only permissions and empty network.allowed: [] even when not explicitly asked.
  • For "visibility over time" asks (milestone risk, test-health trend), it correctly reframes them as scheduled digests rather than forcing an event trigger.
  • It proactively designs dedup keys (close-older-issues + per-entity title prefixes) to prevent duplicate tracking issues across runs.
  • It independently flagged a cross-scenario collision risk (two scheduled report workflows using the same create-issue/close-older-issues pattern) and specified distinct dedup keys to avoid interference.
Top Patterns
  1. Triggers: pull_request (scoped to specific types, same-repo only) for inline review tasks; schedule + workflow_dispatch for periodic digests; workflow_run with a precise if: gate (run_attempt > 1) for rerun-based detection.
  2. Tools: github MCP in gh-proxy mode with the minimal toolset needed (actions: read only when reading CI artifacts/logs); cache-memory: true for cross-run trend baselines.
  3. Security practices: read-only permissions scoped per-field (contents, issues, pull-requests, actions), no network access granted for analysis-only tasks, explicit noop conditions defined for every scenario.
View High Quality Responses (Top 3)
  • PM2-3 (Product Manager, PR automation): Resolves the roadmap issue via closing keywords, diffs PR scope against the issue's acceptance-criteria checklist, and posts a single rolling comment (hide-older-comments: true) instead of spamming the thread on every push.
  • QA-3 (QA Tester, issue automation): Uses workflow_run gated on run_attempt > 1 as a precise, low-noise trigger for flaky-test detection, and dedups tracking issues by test name (not commit) so recurring flakiness consolidates into one issue.
  • QA-4 (QA Tester, scheduled): Uses cache-memory to persist the prior week's baseline for trend comparison, and correctly distinguishes "no data" (report with a note) from "noop" (zero qualifying runs) — avoiding an over-eager noop that would hide a real reporting gap.
View Areas for Improvement (Top 2)
  • No weak responses were observed this run, so there is less adversarial signal than usual — all 4 scenarios tested were already well-aligned with authoring guidance, which may indicate the subset chosen (PR/schedule/workflow_run triggers) is already a "solved" pattern space for the agent. Future runs should include an issue-triggered or on-demand scenario to probe less-tested trigger types.
  • The recurring "scheduled digest + create-issue + close-older-issues" pattern appeared independently in both PRG-3 and QA-4; while the agent self-corrected with distinct dedup keys, this pattern recurring unprompted across unrelated scenarios suggests it's worth codifying explicitly rather than relying on the agent to re-derive it each time.
Recommendations
  1. Add the "recurring digest" pattern (schedule + create-issue with close-older-issues: true and a dedup key scoped to <entity>:<time-window>) as a named, citable pattern in .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md, since it now appears independently across multiple unrelated personas/scenarios.
  2. Document the workflow_run + if: run_attempt > 1 gating technique for rerun/flakiness-detection workflows in .github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md, as a reusable low-noise trigger condition.
  3. Next run, deliberately select at least one issues-event or workflow_dispatch-only scenario per persona to diversify trigger coverage beyond the PR/schedule/workflow_run space this run concentrated on.

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