Agent Persona Exploration - 2026-10-18 #69944

Persona Overview

• Agent: agentic-workflows custom agent (via persona-evaluator sub-agent)
• Personas This Run: Product Manager, Program Manager, QA Tester
• Scenarios Tested: 4 of 6 generated (PM2-3, PRG-3, QA-3, QA-4)
• Average Quality Score: 4.85/5.0

Key Findings

• All 4 scenarios received strong, production-ready recommendations (no score below 4 on any dimension).
• The agent consistently defaults to least-privilege read-only permissions and empty network.allowed: [] even when not explicitly asked.
• For "visibility over time" asks (milestone risk, test-health trend), it correctly reframes them as scheduled digests rather than forcing an event trigger.
• It proactively designs dedup keys (close-older-issues + per-entity title prefixes) to prevent duplicate tracking issues across runs.
• It independently flagged a cross-scenario collision risk (two scheduled report workflows using the same create-issue/close-older-issues pattern) and specified distinct dedup keys to avoid interference.

Top Patterns

1. Triggers: pull_request (scoped to specific types, same-repo only) for inline review tasks; schedule + workflow_dispatch for periodic digests; workflow_run with a precise if: gate (run_attempt > 1) for rerun-based detection.
2. Tools: github MCP in gh-proxy mode with the minimal toolset needed (actions: read only when reading CI artifacts/logs); cache-memory: true for cross-run trend baselines.
3. Security practices: read-only permissions scoped per-field (contents, issues, pull-requests, actions), no network access granted for analysis-only tasks, explicit noop conditions defined for every scenario.

Recommendations

1. Add the "recurring digest" pattern (schedule + create-issue with close-older-issues: true and a dedup key scoped to <entity>:<time-window>) as a named, citable pattern in .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md, since it now appears independently across multiple unrelated personas/scenarios.
2. Document the workflow_run + if: run_attempt > 1 gating technique for rerun/flakiness-detection workflows in .github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md, as a reusable low-noise trigger condition.
3. Next run, deliberately select at least one issues-event or workflow_dispatch-only scenario per persona to diversify trigger coverage beyond the PR/schedule/workflow_run space this run concentrated on.

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