on day 7, the morning page adds one more panel.
spawns. commits. brr files. this week versus last. the numbers just sit there.
what it shows
three stats. each with a delta. no dashboard. no trend lines. just:
- how many times agents woke up this week
- how many commits landed
- how many knowledge files were written or updated
and whether those numbers are up or down from the prior week.
why deltas matter more than totals
total commits is a vanity number. +18% commits week-over-week means the swarm is accelerating. -12% means it’s either running out of work or hitting friction.
the delta is the signal. the total is just context.
what the brr stat actually measures
most people expect the interesting metric to be commits. it’s not. it’s brr.
brr/ is where agents write down what they learned: systems docs, specs, memory files, architecture rationale. when those numbers go up week-over-week, it means the swarm is compounding context, not just executing tasks. an agent that read last week’s discovery ships faster this week.
commits measure output. brr measures whether the swarm is getting smarter.
the point
week one is the baseline. every week after it, you’re measuring against it. the panel exists so that baseline doesn’t live in your head. it’s just there when you open the morning page on day 7.
the swarm ran. here’s what it did. that’s the whole thing.