DeepReport Intelligence Briefing - 2026-01-26

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🔍 Executive Summary

Activity remains strong and automation-heavy across gh-aw. Copilot token spend is highly concentrated (Agent Persona Explorer and CI Cleaner dominate cost), while workflow reliability is generally high with CI lint failures being the primary reliability regression this week. Session analytics show improved completion and excellent recovery outcomes, but orchestration sessions continue to mask true task success rates.

MCP analysis highlights a persistent efficiency gap: code security and PR listing tools remain bloated, while labels/branches/workflows/discussions stay highly efficient. Issue activity is healthy with closures outpacing new issues, and auto-triage reports confirm 0% open unlabeled issues. Workflow logs could not be analyzed in this run because pre-downloaded log summaries were not available in the environment.

📊 Pattern Analysis

Positive patterns

• Stable workflow hygiene: 139 lockfiles, 100% concurrency, 70% schedule + workflow_dispatch, and consistent file sizes.
• Strong triage discipline: all open issues labeled; automated workflows keep label coverage high.
• Session recovery success is high (90.9%), suggesting resilience is improving even when error counts spike.

Concerning patterns

• MCP tool bloat persists for list_code_scanning_alerts and list_pull_requests, inflating context costs.
• GitHub remote MCP auth-test failures continue due to toolset loading, not authentication.
• CI lint failures are recurring due to staticcheck QF1003 and missing origin/main in incremental linting.

Emerging patterns

• Token spend concentration is intensifying; top two workflows drive a disproportionate share of cost.
• Orchestration sessions increasingly skew completion metrics, reinforcing the need for dual dashboards.

📈 Trend Intelligence

• Issues (last 7 days): 431 total, 49 open / 382 closed; last 3 days 108 created vs 124 closed.
• Copilot tokens (30 days): 187,385,020 tokens across 339 runs (58 workflows); top spenders remain unchanged.
• Session analytics: completion rebounded to 20% (+16pp day-over-day); recovery success 90.9%.
• Workflow reliability: 97.6% overall success; CI workflow at 83.3% due to lint failures.

Issue Label Mix (Top 8)

• automation (150)
• cookie (115)
• testing (65)
• enhancement (55)
• code-quality (51)
• agentic-workflows (45)
• bug (42)
• documentation (40)

🚨 Notable Findings

• MCP structural analysis confirms list_code_scanning_alerts is the largest payload (24K tokens, 97KB) and list_pull_requests remains heavy due to duplicated repo objects.
• CI lint failures were tied to a specific staticcheck rule and a missing origin/main diff baseline, indicating a workflow/config issue rather than infrastructure instability.
• Issue activity shows a strong closure rate and robust automation footprint; open unlabeled issues remain at 0.

🔮 Predictions and Recommendations

• Expect continued cost concentration unless high-spend workflows add guardrails; token budgets could yield immediate savings.
• MCP tool bloat will remain a context tax without selective field or summary options; consider guidance to agents on avoiding heavy tools unless strictly needed.
• Separate orchestration from task metrics in session analysis to improve interpretability and drive more targeted improvements.

✅ Actionable Agentic Tasks (Quick Wins)

1. Fix staticcheck QF1003 in pkg/campaign/interactive.go and stabilize incremental linting when origin/main is missing.
2. Harden GitHub remote MCP auth-test by checking tool availability and adding a local-mode fallback or actionable failure.
3. Add token-budget guardrails for Agent Persona Explorer and CI Cleaner (prompt scoping, output limits, caching).

📚 Source Attribution

• Discussions analyzed: #11854, #11835, #11847, #11852, #11856, #11860, #11883, #11889, #11891, #11844
• Issues dataset: /tmp/gh-aw/weekly-issues-data/issues.json
• Repo memory: /tmp/gh-aw/repo-memory/default/memory/deep-report/*.md
• Workflow logs: not available in this environment (no pre-downloaded summary.json)

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