Delivery is judged by verified outcomes landed per day, with lead time p95 as its control, never by commits, pull requests or sessions

majordomus://adr/adr-0198proposed integration-releasechatgpt-project

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put_in_force adr-0071
put_in_force adr-0166
put_in_force adr-0196
put_in_force finished-work-reaches-a-verified-release (intent)
put_in_force I3203
put_in_force I3276
put_in_force a-partial-green-is-not-the-verdict (knowledge)
put_in_force evidence-machinery-must-end-in-a-shipped-result (knowledge)
put_in_force integration-capacity-bounds-the-backlog (knowledge)
put_in_force delivery-flow-is-measured
put_in_force project.no-counts-in-prose@1

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198. Delivery is judged by verified outcomes landed per day, with lead time p95 as its control, never by commits, pull requests or sessions

Context

Audits of 2026-10-14..18 found that 52 percent of the last 100 commits were merges, that four agents opening four pull requests did not do four times the work, and proposed several primary metrics: verified deliveries merged per 24 hours, lead time p95, autonomous intents completed, time from finished intent to user-available function without regression. The milestone cost-per-accepted-outcome measures cost only on measured data.

Decision

The repository's delivery figure is the count of verified outcomes (an issue DONE with its evidence, or a release published and observed) per rolling day, read with the per-phase lead time p95 of I3203 as its control. Commit, pull request and session counts are activity, may be shown as such, and are never called throughput.

Alternatives rejected

Commits or merged pull requests per day as throughput
One composite score (opaque, unfalsifiable)
Forecast maturity percentages

Consequences

No issue in this plan implements the figure yet: I3203 measures lead time only, and an issue that counts verified outcomes is planned once the owner accepts the definition. The drain and dashboard label activity as activity; an outcome without evidence does not count.

Sources

Promoted on 2026-10-18 from the owner's ChatGPT project (workspace chatgpt-majordomus, issue I3100). The owner has not accepted it; it is proposed for the owner's decision.

chatgpt-majordomus:c259#6
chatgpt-majordomus:c271#9
chatgpt-majordomus:c287#2
chatgpt-majordomus:c295#7
chatgpt-majordomus:c295#9
chatgpt-majordomus:c297#6

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