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Agent Persona Exploration - 2026-10-30

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github-actions, markdown
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Read .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow-trigger-details.md and the recurring-digest guidance row in .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md. Clarify that semantic conditions belong in prompt logic rather than YAML triggers, and make the empty-window behavior consistent; done when both guidance sections state an unambiguous canonical behavior.

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Description

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Persona Overview
  • Agent: agentic-workflows (persona-evaluator sub-agent)
  • Personas This Run: Program Manager, Designer, Information Worker
  • Scenarios Tested: 4 of 6 generated (PGM-1, PGM-2, D-1, IW-1)
  • Average Quality Score: 4.65/5.0
Key Findings
  • All 4 invocations succeeded; scores ranged 4.4–4.8, continuing the strong baseline for non-technical personas.
  • Scheduled digest scenarios (PGM-1, IW-1) scored highest (4.8) — correctly used schedule+workflow_dispatch, read-only permissions, create-issue with close-older-issues, and network.allowed: [].
  • Condition-gated scenarios (PGM-2: missing-owner reminder; D-1: missing design-link flag) lost a point on trigger_appropriateness because native issues:/pull_request: triggers can't express semantic conditions (milestone presence, link presence) — logic was correctly pushed into the prompt, but this costs fidelity.
  • Security practices were uniformly excellent (5/5 on all 4) — every recommendation defaulted to read-only scopes and empty network allowlists with no exceptions.
  • PGM-1 and IW-1 diverged on whether a clean-week digest should still post vs. noop — same guidance section, two different interpretations, suggesting the doc underspecifies this.
Top Patterns
  1. Triggers: schedule + workflow_dispatch for digest-style reports; pull_request/issues with path/field-based prompt filtering for review-style nudges.
  2. Tools: github (gh-proxy, default toolsets) used in all 4; playwright/web-fetch correctly omitted when no external validation was needed.
  3. Security: read-only permission scopes + network.allowed: [] in every recommendation.
  4. Safe outputs: create-issue + close-older-issues for scheduled digests; add-comment with dedup/hide-older-comments for PR/issue nudges; explicit noop fallback in all four.
View High Quality Responses (Top 2)
  • PGM-1 (4.8): Weekly cross-team milestone digest grouped by milestone+team, blocked/overdue highlighted, dedup key milestone-digest:<team>:<window-id>, close-older-issues: true.
  • IW-1 (4.8): Weekly stale-docs scan over front-matter last-reviewed dates, 90-day threshold, single digest issue with stable close-older-key, noop when nothing is stale.
View Areas for Improvement (Top 2)
  • PGM-2 and D-1 were docked on trigger_appropriateness/completeness because GitHub Actions triggers can't filter on milestone presence or design-link presence at the YAML level — this is a recurring gap across condition-based issue/PR scenarios, not specific to one persona.
  • Recurring-digest guidance doesn't crisply resolve "always post a clean-bill-of-health digest" vs. "noop on an empty window" — PGM-1 and IW-1 made opposite choices from the same guidance section.
Recommendations
  1. In .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow-trigger-details.md, add explicit canonical phrasing for condition-gated triggers (e.g., milestone presence, linked-reference presence) confirming the filter belongs in prompt logic, not YAML — this repeatedly costs trigger_appropriateness points across personas.
  2. In .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md's recurring-digest guidance row, clarify whether a scheduled digest should always post (clean-bill-of-health) or call noop on an empty window, so authoring agents converge on one behavior.
  3. Next rotation: test the two untested scenarios generated this run — D-2 (Designer: weekly asset alt-text/accessibility audit) and IW-2 (Information Worker: broken internal-link detection on doc renames) — to complete 2-scenario coverage for both personas.

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