"Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo." — Lord Vetinari

Full Daily Activity Log → — every day from Jan 10 to Mar 20, issues/commits/PRs with visual bars.

xychart-beta
    title "Daily Issue Velocity (Central Time)"
    x-axis ["1/10", "1/11", "1/14", "1/16", "1/17", "1/21", "1/23", "1/28", "1/29", "2/1", "2/2", "2/3", "2/4"]
    y-axis "Issues" 0 --> 60
    bar [2, 3, 3, 7, 10, 0, 6, 11, 12, 10, 55, 27, 44]
    line [0, 2, 3, 2, 8, 12, 1, 1, 4, 7, 23, 55, 31]

Legend: Bars = Opened, Line = Closed

xychart-beta
    title "Cumulative Issues Over Time"
    x-axis ["1/10", "1/14", "1/17", "1/21", "1/28", "2/1", "2/2", "2/3", "2/4", "2/5"]
    y-axis "Total Issues" 0 --> 320
    line [2, 13, 31, 31, 56, 68, 123, 150, 194, 310]
    line [0, 5, 15, 27, 29, 36, 59, 114, 145, 282]

Legend: Top line = Total Created, Bottom line = Total Closed

Jan 10-17:  ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░  30 opened, 15 closed (warmup)
Jan 21-29:  ██████████░░░░░░░░░░  37 opened, 26 closed (steady state)
Feb 01-05:  ████████████████████ 136 opened, 118 closed (hyperdrive)
Feb 05-26:  ████████████████████ 107 opened, 123 closed (sustained)

The inflection point: Feb 2, when 55 issues were created in a single day. This marked the transition from "building AssemblyZero" to "AssemblyZero building itself."

Observation: Weekends are productive. Sunday Feb 3 closed 55 issues—more than most weeks.

pie title Issue Status Distribution
    "Closed" : 282
    "Open" : 28

Average time to close: Most issues close within 24 hours of creation. The governance workflow (LLD → Gemini → Implementation → PR) typically completes in 2-4 hours for straightforward features.

Per-call cost tracking is now production. Every LLM call records:

Budget guard: Default $5.00 per workflow run. Circuit breaker trips when next iteration would exceed token budget.

See: Cost Management for the full three-layer cost control architecture.

Telemetry events flow to DynamoDB with JSONL fallback:

Kill switch: ASSEMBLYZERO_TELEMETRY=0 disables all emission. 90-day TTL auto-expires DynamoDB records.

See: Observability & Monitoring for the full telemetry architecture.

AssemblyZero is used by multiple repositories:

Note: Cross-project metrics aggregation is tracked in #329. PyGithub collection, Gemini verdict counting, and approval rate computation are now implemented.

"The Patrician moved a small marker on his wall map."

Lord Vetinari tracks everything. The Vetinari Index is our composite health score:

Vetinari Index = (Closure Rate × 0.3) +
                 (First-Pass LLD Rate × 0.3) +
                 (Test Coverage × 0.2) +
                 (Agent Success Rate × 0.2)

Current Index: 0.91 × 0.3 + (estimated 0.70 × 0.3) + (0.85 × 0.2) + (0.90 × 0.2) = 0.83

A Vetinari Index above 0.75 indicates a well-functioning city. Above 0.85, the Patrician permits himself a thin smile. We're getting close.

Every metric travels the Clacks. Every issue, every verdict, every commit—passed from tower to tower, never forgotten.

GNU Terry Pratchett
GNU AssemblyZero Contributors

On February 2nd, 2026, a comprehensive audit identified 55 issues in a single day:

• Orphaned tests
• Mock-heavy test suites
• Unimplemented flags
• Silent failures

This wasn't a crisis—it was visibility. The audit proved the governance system works: it found problems before users did.

February 3rd saw 55 issues closed—a testament to the multi-agent architecture. While The Great God Om slept (briefly), agents continued their work.

Between Feb 5 and Feb 26, 712 commits landed — circuit breakers, cost tracking, multi-framework test runners, telemetry, cascade prevention, end-to-end orchestration, and more. The closure rate climbed from 76.8% to 90.9%.

From February 28 to March 20, 206 issues closed with 182 commits across 7 major capability themes: security hardening (#663–#714), governance automation (#736–#749), prompt economics (#625, #641–#655), platform engineering (#787), workflow reliability (#774–#842), fleet security audit (#694–#712), and GTM readiness (#812–#820). Peak day: 31 closes (Mar 7). This was the most productive 3-week sprint in project history.

Full March 2026 Velocity Report →

• Measuring Productivity - KPI framework
• How the AssemblyZero Learns - Self-improvement metrics
• Governance Gates - Gate performance metrics
• Cost Management - Cost tracking metrics
• Observability & Monitoring - Telemetry metrics

"The city worked. It was a kind of miracle, really. One of Vetinari's miracles." — Terry Pratchett, Making Money