[copilot-session-insights] Daily Copilot Agent Session Analysis — 2026-02-02

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Executive Summary

• Sessions Analyzed: 50
• Analysis Period: 2026-02-02
• Completion Rate: 8.0%
• Average Duration: 20.74 minutes
• Experimental Strategy: None (standard analysis)

Key Metrics

Metric	Value	Trend
Total Sessions	50	→
Successful Completions	4 (8.0%)	↓
Failed Sessions	3 (6.0%)	→
Action Required	21 (42.0%)	→
Skipped	21 (42.0%)	→
Cancelled	1 (2.0%)	→
Average Duration	20.74 min	↑
Median Duration	19.47 min	↑
Logs Available	29 (58.0%)	↑

📈 Session Trends Analysis

Completion Patterns

Today's completion rate of 8.0% represents a decrease from the recent trend. The majority of sessions (42%) are marked as "action_required," which is consistent with the orchestration-heavy architecture where agents trigger follow-up workflows. Notable is the high proportion of skipped sessions (21), indicating conditional workflow execution paths are being exercised.

Duration & Efficiency

Average session duration has increased to 20.74 minutes from the historical average of ~5-6 minutes. This spike is primarily driven by the 21 skipped sessions with consistent durations of 18-31 minutes each, suggesting timeout or waiting periods for conditional execution. Successful sessions averaged 6.73 minutes, while the longest failure took 34.82 minutes.

Success Factors ✅

Patterns associated with successful task completion:

1. Coding & Implementation Tasks: Highest success rate at 50%

   • Success rate: 50.0% (1 of 2 sessions)
   • Example: "Running Copilot coding agent" session completed successfully
   • Average duration: 6.73 minutes

2. Testing & CI Tasks: Strong performance at 33%

   • Success rate: 33.33% (1 of 3 sessions)
   • Example: "CI" workflow completed
   • Sessions that succeed tend to complete quickly

3. PR Review Tasks: Moderate success at 20%

   • Success rate: 20.0% (2 of 10 sessions)
   • Example: "Addressing comment on PR Add GitHub API integration tests for JavaScript frontmatter hash algorithm with CI integration #13190" sessions
   • Clear PR context helps completion

Failure Signals ⚠️

Common indicators of inefficiency or failure:

1. Orchestration Agent Architecture: 0% success by design

   • Failure rate: 0% success in 33 orchestration sessions (Scout, Archie, Q, /cloclo, PR Nitpick Reviewer)
   • Example: All orchestration agents resulted in "action_required" status
   • This is expected behavior - these agents coordinate rather than complete tasks

2. Security Validation Tasks: Complete failure

   • Failure rate: 0% success in 2 security sessions
   • Example: "Security Guard Agent 🛡️" sessions both failed
   • Duration: Very short (0.97 and 0.9 minutes) or very long (34.82 minutes failure)

3. Long-Running Skipped Sessions: Efficiency concern

   • Issue: 21 skipped sessions averaged 24.77 minutes each
   • Pattern: Consistent timeout durations (18-31 minutes)
   • Impact: Significant resource consumption for no-op outcomes

Prompt Quality Analysis 📝

Overall Quality Distribution

• Average Prompt Quality Score: 2.56/10 (Very Low)
• High-Quality Prompts (7-10): 2% of sessions
• Medium-Quality Prompts (4-6): 18% of sessions
• Low-Quality Prompts (1-3): 80% of sessions

High-Quality Prompt Characteristics

• Clear action verbs: "Addressing comment on PR Add GitHub API integration tests for JavaScript frontmatter hash algorithm with CI integration #13190"
• Specific references: PR numbers, commit context
• Detailed task descriptions (>30 characters)
• Found in: Coding and review tasks with higher success rates

Example High-Quality Prompt:

"Addressing comment on PR #13190"
``````

Success rate for this type: 100% (2/2 completions)

### Low-Quality Prompt Characteristics

- Single-word task names: "Scout", "Q", "Archie"
- No context or action specified
- Generic automation triggers
- Found in: Orchestration agents (by design)

**Example Low-Quality Prompt**:
``````
"Scout"
"Q"
"/cloclo"
``````

Success rate for this type: 0% (orchestration by design)

## Notable Observations

### Task Category Breakdown

| Category | Total | Successes | Success Rate |
|----------|-------|-----------|--------------|
| Coding | 2 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Testing | 3 | 1 | 33.3% |
| Review | 10 | 2 | 20.0% |
| Orchestration | 33 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Security | 2 | 0 | 0.0% |

### Duration Analysis by Outcome

- **Successful sessions**: Average 6.73 min (range: 2.67 - 10.05)
- **Failed sessions**: Average 12.23 min (range: 0.9 - 34.82)
- **Skipped sessions**: Average 24.77 min (consistent timeout pattern)

### Log Availability

58% of sessions (29 of 50) have detailed logs available for analysis. This is an improvement over historical averages and provides better visibility into agent behavior patterns.

## Experimental Analysis

**Standard analysis only - no experimental strategy this run**

The random selection for this run (value: 38) fell outside the experimental threshold (< 30), so established analysis methodologies were applied. Previous experimental strategies that remain effective include:
- Semantic clustering by task type (proven highly effective)
- User interaction pattern analysis (strong success predictor)
- Tool effectiveness and error recovery analysis (excellent correlation)

## Actionable Recommendations

### For Users Writing Task Descriptions

1. **Provide Explicit Context in Non-Orchestration Tasks**
   - When: Creating manual Copilot agent invocations
   - Why: 50% success rate for coding tasks vs 0% for context-free orchestration
   - Example:
     - ❌ Before: "Fix the bug"
     - ✅ After: "Fix TypeError in authentication handler when user object is None"

2. **Reference Specific Artifacts**
   - When: Working with PRs, issues, or commits
   - Why: PR-referencing tasks show 20% success vs 0% for generic tasks
   - Example:
     - ❌ Before: "Review the changes"
     - ✅ After: "Address review comment on PR #13190 regarding error handling"

3. **Break Down Complex Tasks**
   - When: Tasks that might take >10 minutes
   - Why: Successful sessions average 6.73 min vs 34.82 min for longest failure
   - Example:
     - ❌ Before: "Implement user authentication system"
     - ✅ After: "Add JWT token validation middleware to API routes"

### For System Improvements

1. **Optimize Skipped Session Timeout Behavior**
   - Potential impact: High
   - Issue: 21 sessions consuming 24.77 minutes each for skipped outcomes
   - Recommendation: Implement early exit detection for conditional workflow skips

2. **Security Guard Agent Reliability**
   - Potential impact: Medium
   - Issue: 0% success rate, inconsistent duration patterns
   - Recommendation: Investigate failure modes - quick failures (<1 min) vs long failures (34+ min)

3. **Orchestration Agent Metrics Separation**
   - Potential impact: Medium
   - Issue: Orchestration agents skew completion rate metrics
   - Recommendation: Track orchestration agents separately from task-completing agents

### For Tool Development

1. **Early Workflow Skip Detection**
   - Frequency: 21 sessions (42% of total)
   - Use case: Conditional workflows that determine skip status quickly
   - Benefit: Reduce resource consumption by ~518 minutes (21 × 24.77) per analysis period

2. **Context Injection for Orchestration Agents**
   - Frequency: 33 sessions with minimal context
   - Use case: Provide ambient context to Scout/Archie/Q agents
   - Benefit: Could improve decision quality even for coordination tasks

## Trends Over Time

Comparing with historical data from cache memory:

- **Completion rate trend**: Declining (12% on 2026-02-01 → 8% on 2026-02-02)
- **Average duration trend**: Increasing significantly (5.01 min → 20.74 min)
- **Quality improvement**: Log availability improved (46% → 58%)

**Concern**: The sharp increase in average duration is driven primarily by skipped session timeout behavior. This represents a change in workflow execution patterns that warrants investigation.

## Statistical Summary

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Total Sessions Analyzed:     50
Successful Completions:      4 (8.0%)
Failed Sessions:            3 (6.0%)
Action Required:           21 (42.0%)
Skipped Sessions:          21 (42.0%)
Cancelled Sessions:         1 (2.0%)

Average Session Duration:   20.74 min
Median Session Duration:    19.47 min
Longest Session:           34.82 min (failure)
Shortest Session:           0.9 min (failure)

Logs Available:            29 (58.0%)
Orchestration Sessions:    33 (66.0%)

High-Quality Prompts:       1 (2.0%)
Medium-Quality Prompts:     9 (18.0%)
Low-Quality Prompts:       40 (80.0%)

Next Steps

• Investigate skipped session timeout behavior causing 24.77 min delays
• Review Security Guard Agent failure modes for patterns
• Consider separate metrics tracking for orchestration vs task agents
• Monitor completion rate trend for continued decline
• Implement early exit detection for conditional workflow skips

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Analysis generated automatically on 2026-02-02 at 07:44 UTC
Run ID: §21579445205
Workflow: Copilot Session Insights

AI generated by Copilot Session Insights

• expires on Feb 9, 2026, 7:54 AM UTC