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Agent Persona Exploration - 2026-10-06 #66216
Description
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.mdexisted 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. ListAgentsconfirmed no reachable peer agent namedpersona-evaluatoreither, 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
- Not observable this run — no successful invocations to extract trigger/tool/safe-output patterns from.
- N/A
- 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-evaluatorsub-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
ListAgentsor 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-workflowsagent's actual trigger/tool/security recommendation quality — this remains an open gap until the sub-agent registration issue is fixed.
Recommendations
- Fix the sub-agent materialization step so
.claude/agents/persona-evaluator.mdis present and registered prior to session start for this workflow (infrastructure fix, not a doc change). - 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. - 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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