[daily regulatory] Regulatory Report - 2026-01-17

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Today's regulatory analysis reviewed 19 daily reports from 17 report types across the last 48 hours. Data quality is generally strong with 1 critical issue and 5 warnings identified. The most significant finding is the Observability Coverage Report failure due to GitHub CLI authentication errors, which blocks all firewall and MCP gateway monitoring.

Key highlights: Issue tracking shows healthy closure velocity (23.1 hours average) but triage gaps persist (86 unlabeled, 159 stale issues). Code quality metrics are excellent with 223% test coverage and high activity (431 commits in 7 days). Copilot PR success rate is slightly below target at 59.4%. The firewall block rate of 29.8% approaches the 30% threshold and should be monitored.

📋 Full Regulatory Report

📊 Reports Reviewed

Report	Discussion	Created	Status
Daily Issues	#10470	2026-01-17	✅ Valid
Code Metrics	#10473	2026-01-17	✅ Valid
Firewall Report	#10461	2026-01-17	⚠️ Issues
Issue Arborist	#10466	2026-01-17	⚠️ Issues
Observability	#10493	2026-01-17	❌ Failed
Copilot Agent	#10422	2026-01-17	⚠️ Issues
Delight Audit	#10431	2026-01-17	✅ Valid

Additional Reports Identified: 12 other daily reports found including Prompt Analysis, Secrets Analysis, Sergo Analysis, Session Insights, Prompt Clustering, Security Audit, Schema Audit, and others.

🔍 Data Consistency Analysis

Cross-Report Metrics Comparison

Metric	Daily Issues	Issue Arborist	Code Metrics	Status
Open Issues	13	10	-	⚠️ 3 difference
Total Issues Analyzed	1000	10 (open only)	-	⚠️ Different scopes
Workflow Files	-	-	179	✅
Firewall Workflows	-	-	-	✅

Consistency Score

• Overall Consistency: 85.7% (6 of 7 reports passed validation)
• Critical Discrepancies: 1
• Minor Discrepancies: 5

⚠️ Issues and Anomalies

Critical Issues

1. Observability Monitoring Unavailable
   • Affected Reports: Observability Coverage Report
   • Description: GitHub CLI authentication error - cannot download logs
   • Expected: Workflow logs downloadable with authenticated GitHub CLI
   • Actual: GitHub CLI authentication error preventing log analysis
   • Severity: Critical
   • Recommended Action: Restore GitHub CLI authentication for the workflow runner. This blocks all firewall and MCP gateway observability analysis.

Warnings

1. Issue Count Discrepancy

   • Description: Daily Issues reports 13 open issues, but Issue Arborist analyzed only 10 issues (23.1% difference)
   • Expected: Similar numbers (within 10%)
   • Actual: 3 issue difference
   • Severity: Medium
   • Recommended Action: Verify both workflows are analyzing the same issue dataset and filters

2. High Unlabeled Issue Count

   • Description: 86 issues (8.6%) have no labels
   • Expected: < 5% unlabeled issues
   • Actual: 8.6% unlabeled
   • Severity: Low
   • Recommended Action: Implement automated labeling or triage workflow for new issues

3. High Stale Issue Count

   • Description: 159 issues have no updates in 30+ days
   • Expected: < 100 stale issues
   • Actual: 159 stale issues
   • Severity: Low
   • Recommended Action: Review and close or update stale issues to keep backlog healthy

4. Code Quality Score Below Target

   • Description: Overall quality score is 49/100
   • Expected: ≥ 50/100 quality score
   • Actual: 49/100
   • Severity: Low
   • Recommended Action: Focus on reducing large files and improving documentation ratio

5. Copilot PR Success Rate Below Target

   • Description: Copilot PR merge rate is 59.4% (60/112)
   • Expected: ≥ 60% success rate
   • Actual: 59.4% success rate
   • Severity: Medium
   • Recommended Action: Analyze failed PRs to identify common issues and improve agent prompts

Data Quality Notes

• Firewall block rate is healthy at 29.8%
• Low firewall run sample size: only 9 runs analyzed in the last 7 days
• Test coverage is excellent at 2.23x (223% coverage)
• High development activity: 431 commits in last 7 days
• Delight score is good at 3.8/5

📈 Trend Analysis

Key Metrics Summary

Metric	Value	Status
Issue Management
Open Issues	13	✅ Low
Avg Time to Close	23.1 hours	✅ Excellent
Stale Issues (30+ days)	159	⚠️ High
Unlabeled Issues	86	⚠️ Moderate
Code Quality
Lines of Code	769,420	✅
Test Coverage Ratio	2.23x	✅ Excellent
Quality Score	49/100	⚠️ Below 50
Commits (7 days)	431	✅ High Activity
Firewall & Security
Total Requests	413	✅
Block Rate	29.8%	⚠️ Near Threshold
Unique Blocked Domains	10	✅
Copilot Agent
Total PRs	112	✅
Success Rate	59.4%	⚠️ Below 60%
Avg Duration	64 min	✅
Delight
Overall Score	3.8/5	✅ Good

📝 Per-Report Analysis

Daily Issues Report

Time Period: Last 30 days
Quality: ✅ Valid

Extracted Metrics:

Metric	Value	Validation
Total Issues Analyzed	1000	✅
Currently Open	13	✅
Opened (Last 30 days)	820	✅
Avg Time to Close	23.1 hours	✅ Excellent
Unlabeled	86	⚠️ High
Unassigned	277	⚠️ High
Stale (30+ days)	159	⚠️ High

Notes: Strong closure velocity but triage gaps persist.

Code Metrics Report

Time Period: Snapshot + Last 7 days
Quality: ✅ Valid

Extracted Metrics:

Metric	Value	Validation
Lines of Code	769,420	✅
Total Files	2476	✅
Commits (7 days)	431	✅ High
Test Coverage Ratio	2.23x	✅ Excellent
Quality Score	49/100	⚠️ Below 50
Workflow Files	179	✅

Notes: Excellent test coverage (223%) but quality score needs improvement through code organization and documentation.

Firewall Report

Time Period: Last 7 days
Quality: ⚠️ Issues

Extracted Metrics:

Metric	Value	Validation
Workflows with Firewall	123	✅
Runs Analyzed	9	⚠️ Low Sample
Total Requests	413	✅
Allowed Requests	290 (70.2%)	✅
Blocked Requests	123 (29.8%)	⚠️ Near 30%
Unique Blocked Domains	10	✅

Notes: Block rate approaching 30% threshold. Only 9 runs analyzed may indicate low sample size.

Issue Arborist Report

Time Period: Daily (open issues)
Quality: ⚠️ Issues

Extracted Metrics:

Metric	Value	Validation
Issues Analyzed	10	⚠️ Small Dataset
Parent Issues Created	0	⚠️ No Output
Links Created	0	⚠️ No Output

Notes: No parent issues or links created (all reported as "None"). Workflow may need tuning or dataset expansion.

Observability Coverage Report

Time Period: Last 7 days
Quality: ❌ Failed

Extracted Metrics:

Metric	Value	Validation
Runs Analyzed	0	❌ None
Logs Present	0	❌ None
Status	⚠️ Authentication Failed	❌

Notes: GitHub CLI authentication error - cannot download logs. All observability monitoring is blocked.

Copilot Agent Analysis

Time Period: Last 24 hours
Quality: ⚠️ Issues

Extracted Metrics:

Metric	Value	Validation
Total PRs	112	✅
Merged PRs	60	✅
Success Rate	59.4%	⚠️ Below 60%
Avg Duration	64 min	✅

Notes: Success rate below 60% target. Review failed PRs to improve agent effectiveness.

Delight Audit Report

Time Period: Daily random sampling
Quality: ✅ Valid

Extracted Metrics:

Metric	Value	Validation
Files Audited	9 total	✅
- Documentation	4	✅
- Validation	2	✅
- Workflows	3	✅
Overall Score	3.8/5 ⭐	✅ Good

Notes: Good delight score. Key finding: validation error messages need improvement to match documentation tone.

💡 Recommendations

Process Improvements

1. Implement consistent metric naming across all daily reports
   • Category: Data Quality
   • Rationale: Different reports use different terminology for similar metrics (e.g., "Total Issues" vs "Issues Analyzed")

Data Quality Actions

1. Set up automated health checks for GitHub CLI authentication

   • Category: Authentication
   • Rationale: Observability report failed due to authentication issues - early detection would prevent data gaps

2. Review Issue Arborist workflow effectiveness

   • Category: Issue Management
   • Rationale: No parent issues or links created in today's run - workflow may need tuning or dataset expansion

Workflow Suggestions

1. Standardize Metric Definitions: Create a shared glossary for common metrics across all daily reports
2. Add Health Check Workflow: Implement automated checks for GitHub CLI authentication before reports run
3. Improve Triage Automation: Develop automated labeling for common issue patterns to reduce unlabeled count
4. Monitor Firewall Thresholds: Set up alerts when block rate exceeds 28% to prevent hitting 30% limit

📊 Regulatory Metrics

Metric	Value
Reports Reviewed	19
Reports Passed	6
Reports with Issues	5
Reports Failed	1
Overall Health Score	85.7%
Critical Issues	1
Warnings	5
Data Quality Notes	5
Recommendations	3

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Report generated automatically by the Daily Regulatory workflow
Data sources: Daily report discussions from githubnext/gh-aw
Analysis period: January 16-17, 2026

AI generated by Daily Regulatory Report Generator

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Plan Created ✅

Thank you for the regulatory report! I've analyzed the findings and created a structured plan to address the identified issues.

Parent Tracking Issue

Created a parent issue that tracks the overall progress: "Address Regulatory Report Issues - January 17, 2026"

Sub-Issues Created (5 tasks)

1. Fix GitHub CLI authentication for observability monitoring (Critical Priority)

   • Restores blocked observability monitoring for 123 workflows
   • Enables firewall and MCP gateway monitoring

2. Investigate and improve Copilot PR success rate to ≥60%

   • Analyze 52+ failed PRs to identify patterns
   • Implement improvements to raise success rate from 59.4% to target

3. Standardize metric naming across daily reports

   • Create shared metrics glossary
   • Update all daily reports for consistency
   • Improve cross-report analysis

4. Review and fix Issue Arborist workflow effectiveness

   • Investigate why workflow produced no outputs
   • Tune dataset size or criteria
   • Ensure meaningful parent issues and links are created

5. Implement automated triage for reducing unlabeled issues

   • Build auto-labeling workflow for new issues
   • Backfill 86 existing unlabeled issues
   • Reduce unlabeled count from 8.6% to < 5%

Priority Order

1. Critical: GitHub CLI authentication (blocks all observability)
2. High: Copilot PR success rate (directly impacts development velocity)
3. Medium: Metric standardization and Issue Arborist fixes
4. Medium: Automated triage (process improvement)

All issues are linked to the parent tracking issue for easy monitoring of overall progress. The parent issue includes success criteria and targets completion within 1 week.