DeepReport Intelligence Briefing - 2026-01-28

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🔍 Executive Summary

The agent ecosystem remains broadly healthy, with strong throughput and automation coverage, but two systemic risks stand out: workflow expression errors tied to missing create_pull_request dependencies and least‑privilege gaps on risky triggers. These issues are repeatable across many workflows, indicating template or compiler validation opportunities rather than one‑off mistakes.

Token consumption is rising quickly (200.7M tokens over 30 days, +111% since Jan 15) while per‑run efficiency is mixed; a small set of workflows dominate usage. Issue hygiene is strong (0 unlabeled open issues), but discussion answers are effectively stalled (0 answered in the latest performance sample), signaling an engagement/triage gap.

Workflow audit health is stable (87.5% success in the last 24h) with one early failure in the Workflow Health Manager. GitHub MCP toolsets were not loaded in a recent auth‑test, which can block any Copilot workflows that depend on MCP GitHub APIs.

📊 Pattern Analysis

Positive patterns

• Automated issue triage and linking is working well: Issue Arborist continues clustering automation‑generated issues and auto‑triage labeled new issues with 0 unlabeled open items.
• Daily audit shows high success and no missing tools/MCP server failures in the last 24h sample.

Concerning patterns

• Repeated workflow template issues: actionlint expression errors (27 workflows) and default permissions on risky triggers (14 workflows) point to systemic workflow configuration gaps.
• MCP toolset availability remains fragile (remote toolsets not loaded in auth‑test), threatening agents that rely on GitHub data access.

Emerging patterns

• Token usage is accelerating alongside workflow count; high‑context workflows are becoming a cost and runtime driver.
• Discussions remain unanswered despite overall project velocity, suggesting a community signal backlog.

📈 Trend Intelligence

• Workflow health (last 24h): 8 runs, 7 successes, 1 failure (87.5% success). Total 23.7M tokens. Failure occurred before agent execution (0 tokens).
• Token usage (last 30d): 200.7M tokens across 281 runs and 62 workflows; +111% vs Jan 15. Issue Monster is top consumer (39.9M tokens). Anomalous cost spike on Jan 22 ($101.97) persists as a data‑quality outlier.
• Static analysis: 141 workflows scanned; 755 findings. High‑severity expression errors (27 workflows) and medium‑severity permissions warnings (14 workflows) are new baseline concerns.
• Issues (last 7d cache): 500 total; 91 open, 409 closed. Last 3 days show 196 created vs 156 closed. 73 unlabeled issues total, 0 unlabeled open; 56 open unassigned; 19 open stale >3 days.
• Performance sample (90d window): Average PR merge 2.1h, issue resolution 2.2h; 0 discussions answered.

Detailed Metrics

• Token consumption report highlights: 200.7M tokens, 281 runs, 62 workflows, avg 714K tokens/run.
• Audit report highlights: 8 workflows active, 1 failure (Workflow Health Manager), no missing tools/MCP errors.
• Issue Arborist: 0 new parent clusters; many sub‑issues linked to existing issue groups.

🚨 Notable Findings

• Actionlint expression errors: 27 workflows reference needs.create_pull_request without listing the job, causing runtime failures.
• Least‑privilege gaps: 14 workflows on risky triggers still run with default permissions.
• MCP toolsets unavailable: GitHub remote MCP toolsets failed to load in auth‑test, blocking MCP GitHub API use.
• Community signal gap: 0 discussions answered in the latest performance sample.

🔮 Predictions and Recommendations

• Token usage will continue to rise unless high‑context workflows adopt batching or summarization; focus on top‑consumers first (Issue Monster, CI Cleaner, Agent Persona Explorer).
• Workflow reliability will improve fastest by fixing systemic template errors (create_pull_request needs + permissions).
• MCP stability should be prioritized; add remote‑mode verification and local fallback to avoid toolset outages.
• Discussion throughput may lag further unless a lightweight “answer” workflow or owner assignment is introduced.

✅ Actionable Agentic Tasks (Quick Wins)

1. Fix create_pull_request dependency references in 27 workflows
   • Align needs: dependencies or remove invalid references; recompile lock files.
2. Add explicit permissions to 14 risky‑trigger workflows
   • Enforce least‑privilege in frontmatter; recompile lock files.
3. Restore GitHub MCP toolset availability for remote auth‑test
   • Ensure toolsets load in remote mode and add local‑mode fallback.

📚 Source Attribution

• Discussions: 🔍 Agentic Workflow Audit Report - 2026-01-28 #12161 (Agentic Workflow Audit), 📊 Daily Copilot Token Consumption Report - January 28, 2026 #12239 (Token Consumption), [daily performance] Daily Performance Summary - 2026-01-28 #12160 (Daily Performance), Daily Status - 2026-01-28 #12227 (Daily Status), [Issue Arborist] Issue Arborist Daily Report - 2026-01-28 #12282 (Issue Arborist), [Auto-Triage] Auto-Triage Report - January 28, 2026 #12249 (Auto‑Triage), 🔍 Static Analysis Report - January 28, 2026 #12276 (Static Analysis), [auth-test] GitHub Remote MCP Tools Not Available #12242 (MCP Auth‑Test)
• Issues data: /tmp/gh-aw/weekly-issues-data/issues.json (7‑day cache)
• Repo memory baseline: last analysis 2025‑12‑27
• Workflow logs: not available in this run (no gh‑aw logs tool surfaced in environment)

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