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Agent Persona Exploration - 2026-10-08 #66935
Description
Persona Overview
- Agent: agentic-workflows custom agent
- Personas This Run: Product Manager, Information Worker, Backend Engineer
- Scenarios Tested: 4 of 6 generated (PM2-1, IW-1, IW-2, BE-1)
- Average Quality Score: 4.5/5.0
Key Findings
- All four invocations succeeded this run — the
persona-evaluatorsubagent type registration issue from the prior run (§37646024597, all 4 invocations failed) is resolved. - Recommendations consistently mapped tasks to the repo's documented trigger matrix: digests →
schedule+workflow_dispatch; file/PR-scoped reviews →pull_request+paths:filtering. - Security posture was strong across the board: read-only agent-job permissions, writes routed exclusively through safe-outputs, and network access correctly scoped to "none" when no external API/package access was needed.
- One sub-agent (IW-1) declined to self-score, citing an instruction embedded in its own agent definition that assumes a different invocation context (parent-evaluator scoring) — the orchestrator scored it instead. See Areas for Improvement.
- This completes first-time coverage of all 9 personas in the pool across the exploration history (baseline: Program Manager/Designer/Legal-Compliance; prior rotation: Frontend Developer/DevOps Engineer/QA Tester; this run: Product Manager/Information Worker/Backend Engineer).
Top Patterns
- Triggers:
schedule+workflow_dispatchfor recurring digests;pull_request+ scopedpaths:for file-specific reviews — no scenario proposed a mismatched trigger. - Tools:
githubwithgh-proxymode and thedefaulttoolset was the default recommendation everywhere;bashadded only when local file/pattern analysis was genuinely needed (stale-doc scanning, link resolution). - Security practices: every recommendation kept the agent job at
contents: read(plus narrow read scopes), pushed all writes throughsafe-outputs(create-issue,add-comment), and leftnetwork accessempty unless genuinely required. - Noop discipline: every recommendation explicitly specified a
noopfallback when no qualifying content was found, avoiding empty/placeholder outputs.
View High Quality Responses (Top 3)
- PM2-1 (Product Manager digest, 4.6 avg): Correctly used
close-older-issues: trueas a "replace previous result" strategy for a weekly digest, distinguishing it from cadences that should accumulate history. - IW-1 (stale docs, 4.6 avg): Recommended an explicitly empty
network.allowedlist and flagged this as a security positive since the task is pure local file analysis — a nuance not prompted for. - BE-1 (migration safety review, 4.4 avg): Matched the documented "Backend schema/API review" trigger pattern exactly and refused to guess the migration directory path, flagging it as an open question instead.
View Areas for Improvement (Top 3)
- Self-scoring inconsistency: the IW-1 sub-agent run cited an instruction in its own agent definition ("the parent evaluator will score completed responses") to skip self-assessment, conflicting with the direct ad hoc request in the orchestrator's prompt. This suggests the
persona-evaluatoragent definition bundles assumptions from a different (dynamic workflow) invocation mode that don't hold when invoked directly — worth auditing for consistent behavior regardless of caller. - Placeholder paths under-specified: both BE-1 (migration directory) and IW-2 (docs/wiki directory glob) used placeholder paths since the real repo-specific locations weren't given. The agent correctly flagged these as open questions rather than guessing silently, but repeated across scenarios — guidance nudging users to supply concrete paths up front could speed convergence.
- Comment-refresh ambiguity: IW-2 flagged an unresolved design question — whether repeated PR pushes should refresh a single
add-commentor post a new one each time — without a clear repo-documented convention to point to.
Recommendations
- Add guidance to
.github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.mdclarifying whetheradd-commentonpull_request: synchronizeshould default to "update existing comment" vs. "post new comment per push," since two independent scenarios (IW-2 and prior runs) hit this same ambiguity. - Audit the
persona-evaluatoragent definition for self-scoring instructions that assume a specific caller/invocation context; make the scoring contract invocation-agnostic so direct orchestrator calls don't silently skip required output fields. - Consider a short checklist in
.github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.mdprompting users for concrete repo paths (migration directory, docs root) before a recommendation is finalized, since placeholder-path flags recurred across unrelated personas this run.
References: §37802119667 (this run), §37646024597 (prior rotation, all invocations failed)
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