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Agent Persona Exploration - 2026-10-06 #66216

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Persona Overview

  • Agent: persona-evaluator (inline Claude Code sub-agent, standing in for agentic-workflows)
  • Personas This Run: Product Manager, Information Worker, Backend Engineer
  • Scenarios Tested: 4 (PM2-1, PM2-2, IW-1, BE-1) of 6 generated
  • Average Quality Score: N/A — all 4 invocations failed before any recommendation was produced

Key Findings

  • All 4 scenario invocations failed identically with Agent type 'persona-evaluator' not found. Available agents: claude, Explore, general-purpose, Plan, statusline-setup.
  • The failure is dispatch-level, not scenario-specific: .claude/agents/persona-evaluator.md existed on disk at session start (visible as an untracked file in the initial git status) but was never registered as an invokable subagent type for this session.
  • ListAgents confirmed no reachable peer agent named persona-evaluator either, ruling out a cross-session workaround.
  • Because no recommendations were returned, no quality scoring (trigger appropriateness, tool selection, security practices, prompt clarity, completeness) is available this run.
  • This is itself a useful finding about the exploration harness: dynamically materialized sub-agents created just before/at workflow start are not reliably picked up by the agent dispatcher within the same run.

Top Patterns

  1. Not observable this run — no successful invocations to extract trigger/tool/safe-output patterns from.
  2. N/A
  3. N/A
View High Quality Responses (Top 2-3)

None — all 4 scenario invocations failed at dispatch time, before the agent could generate a recommendation.

View Areas for Improvement (Top 2-3)
  • The persona-evaluator sub-agent definition must be registered and available before the exploring agent's session starts, not written to .claude/agents/ during/immediately before the same run — otherwise every scenario invocation fails identically.
  • Consider a pre-flight check (e.g., call ListAgents or attempt one trivial invocation) at the start of Phase 3, so a systemic dispatch failure is caught and reported after one attempt instead of being silently assumed to be per-scenario.
  • No data this run on the agentic-workflows agent's actual trigger/tool/security recommendation quality — this remains an open gap until the sub-agent registration issue is fixed.

Recommendations

  1. Fix the sub-agent materialization step so .claude/agents/persona-evaluator.md is present and registered prior to session start for this workflow (infrastructure fix, not a doc change).
  2. Add a one-time pre-flight invocation check in Phase 3 of .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md (or the persona-explorer's own prompt) so a systemic dispatch failure short-circuits to a single failure record instead of repeating the same failed call across all scenarios.
  3. Re-run this exploration once the sub-agent registration is fixed to collect first real quality data for Product Manager, Information Worker, and Backend Engineer scenarios (PM2-1, PM2-2, IW-1, IW-2, BE-1, BE-2 are already drafted and stored in cache memory for reuse).

References: §37488449340

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  1. github-actions commented on Oct 7, 2026

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    This issue is being closed as outdated. A newer issue has been created: #66615

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