Rule
Measure goal progress, not agent activity.
What AgentOps Enforces
- Tie metrics to outcomes the project actually cares about.
- Track proof quality, recurrence, lead time, and goal movement.
- Treat idle time as acceptable when the work is done.
- Reject metrics that reward token burn, session count, or code volume by themselves.
Failure Signal
- The dashboard improves while the product does not.
- Agents generate work to satisfy a metric.
- The team celebrates activity that did not move a goal.
- A metric cannot tell you whether to continue, stop, or roll back.
Done Looks Like
Each measured number helps decide whether the AgentOps loop is making software delivery better.