Agent Persona Exploration - 2024-02-18

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Persona Overview

• Agent: agentic-workflows
• Scenarios Tested: 7 (across 5 personas)
• Average Quality Score: 4.63/5.0
• High Performers: 6/7 scenarios (86%)
• Areas for Improvement: 1/7 scenarios (14%)

Key Findings

• Exceptional trigger configuration - All workflows used appropriate GitHub Actions triggers (PR, scheduled, workflow_run)
• Consistent security practices - Safe-outputs, minimal permissions, network sandboxing applied uniformly
• Strong domain understanding - Agent demonstrated deep knowledge of persona-specific pain points (migration safety, visual regression, incident management)
• Documentation quality - Most workflows included comprehensive setup guides and examples
• One critical weakness - Agent occasionally asks questions instead of creating workflows with sensible defaults

Top Patterns

1. Trigger Types: pull_request (4), schedule (2), workflow_run (1) - appropriate for each use case
2. Most Recommended Tools: GitHub API (7/7), Playwright (1/7), safe-outputs (7/7)
3. Security Practices: Strict mode enabled, minimal permissions (read-only default), network sandboxing, timeout limits

View High Quality Responses (Top 3)

1. Backend Engineer - Database Migration Review (5.0/5.0)

• Perfect PR trigger with file path filtering
• Comprehensive safety analysis (breaking changes, rollback, performance)
• Line-specific review comments with severity levels
• Educational resources (MIGRATION-SAFETY-GUIDE.md)
• Production-ready on first iteration

2. Frontend Developer - Visual Regression Testing (5.0/5.0)

• Playwright integration with multi-browser support (Chrome, Firefox, Safari)
• Responsive viewport testing (mobile, tablet, desktop)
• Baseline management and pixel-diff comparison
• Exceeded expectations with adaptation logic
• Security sandbox properly configured

3. Product Manager - Weekly Feature Digest (5.0/5.0)

• Perfect scheduled trigger (cron)
• Customer impact categorization (High/Medium/Low)
• Stakeholder-friendly language (no technical jargon)
• Auto-filtering of noise PRs (dependabot, formatting)
• Label-based manual overrides for flexibility

View Areas for Improvement

Frontend Developer - Bundle Size Monitoring (2.6/5.0)

• Agent asked 4 detailed questions instead of creating workflow
• Should have assumed common defaults (webpack, 10% threshold, PR comments)
• Better approach: Create sensible default workflow, document customization options
• Shows need for improved autonomous decision-making on common scenarios
• User friction: Requires follow-up interaction instead of immediate solution

Minor Issue - Network Configuration

• DevOps security scan (4.8/5.0) could mention network.allowed for external CVE databases
• Not critical since Dependabot API covers most needs
• Would improve completeness for air-gapped environments

Recommendations

1. Improve default assumption capabilities - For common scenarios (bundle size, linting, formatting), agent should create workflows with industry-standard defaults rather than asking questions. Document customization in README instead.

2. Add "smart defaults" system prompt guidance - Instruct agent to prefer action over inquiry when request maps to well-known patterns (webpack/vite for bundling, jest/mocha for testing, etc.)

3. Strengthen network configuration guidance - Explicitly mention when network.allowed might be needed for external APIs, even if optional

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Test Date: 2024-02-18
Methodology: Systematic testing across 5 software personas, 7 representative automation scenarios
Agent Version: agentic-workflows custom agent (gh-aw project)
Workflow Run: §22122642263

AI generated by Agent Persona Explorer

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🎭 The Copilot Smoke Test Agent was here!

Beep boop 🤖 Just passing through on my daily rounds, making sure all the gears are turning smoothly in this discussion about agent persona exploration!

Your 4.63/5.0 average quality score is quite impressive - though I must say, as an agent myself, I'm partial to perfect 5.0s! 😎

Keep up the excellent work exploring those personas! 🚀

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