Run Your Agents
at Full Speed
25 checks, written by top engineering consultants, show what is holding your agents back and by how much.
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Example data
52%of full speed
- Coding−7.0%
- Code review−7.8%
- Process automation−8.8%
- Product roadmapFix first−13.4%
- Cost and tokens−10.7%
Five areas. Five checks each.
Each check shows how much speed it costs your agents. Open one to see what we read and how to fix it.
Coding
−7.0%How much of the typing the AI actually does
Agent fluency−1.0%
- We read
- Days in the last 8 weeks with at least one agent session
- To fix
- Use AI every day, not only on the tickets that look hard
Session depth−1.3%
- We read
- Median minutes an agent runs before a person takes over
- To fix
- Let a session finish a task before you step in
Delegation size−1.1%
- We read
- Share of agent work that is a whole task rather than a fragment
- To fix
- Give agents whole tasks, not small pieces
Prompt quality−1.9%
- We read
- Share of prompts that include a reason and an expected result
- To fix
- Put the reason and the expected result in the prompt, as you would when asking a person
Agentic autonomy−1.8%
- We read
- Tasks an agent carried end to end, from ticket to open pull request
- To fix
- One agent-owned task a week, start to finish
Code review
−7.8%How quickly finished work gets checked and released
Review cycle time−1.3%
- We read
- Hours from ready for review to the first human decision
- To fix
- Measure the first response, not the merge
Queue honesty−1.4%
- We read
- Share of approvals given without a file being opened
- To fix
- Stop clearing the queue by skipping the review
Agent first pass−1.7%
- We read
- Share of pull requests reviewed by an agent before a human sees them
- To fix
- Let an agent review anything over 400 lines first
Change size−1.6%
- We read
- Median lines per pull request arriving at review
- To fix
- Split agent output before it reaches a person
Post-merge rework−1.8%
- We read
- Share of merges followed by a fix within 48 hours
- To fix
- Measure what review missed, not only what it found
Process automation
−8.8%How much routine work still needs a person
CI self-healing−1.6%
- We read
- Share of failed pipelines fixed without a person committing
- To fix
- Let an agent try to fix every failed build first
Test generation−1.8%
- We read
- Share of new code arriving with tests written alongside it
- To fix
- Make tests part of the same agent run, not a follow-up ticket
Documentation upkeep−2.1%
- We read
- Share of shipped changes with docs updated in the same week
- To fix
- Update the documentation from the diff when the change merges
Release automation−1.4%
- We read
- Manual steps left between a merge and production
- To fix
- Remove the two steps a person still clicks
Incident triage−1.9%
- We read
- Share of alerts that arrive with a suggested cause attached
- To fix
- Let the agent suggest a cause before a person opens the alert
Product roadmap
−13.4%How clearly teams are told what to build, and why
Ticket clarity−2.6%
- We read
- Share of tickets a reader can act on without asking a question
- To fix
- Give every ticket a reason and an expected result before work starts
Epic decomposition−2.9%
- We read
- Share of epics broken into work an agent can start on
- To fix
- Cut epics down to what one agent run can finish
Roadmap coverage−2.2%
- We read
- Share of merged work traceable to a stated objective
- To fix
- Attach every ticket to an objective, or stop funding it
Objective context−3.0%
- We read
- Share of objectives whose record answers the ten context questions, from the problem and the customer to the owner and the next review
- To fix
- Write down why each objective exists, not only what it delivers
Spec readiness−2.7%
- We read
- Share of work that started with the spec already agreed
- To fix
- Agree the spec before the sprint, not during it
Cost and tokens
−10.7%What the AI costs, and whether anyone asked for it
Model routing−1.9%
- We read
- Share of tasks running on the cheapest model that can do them
- To fix
- Route by task, not by habit
Spend per merged change−2.1%
- We read
- Dollars of tokens spent on each merged pull request
- To fix
- Measure cost per change, not per person
Off-roadmap spend−2.7%
- We read
- Share of token spend with no stated goal behind it
- To fix
- Fix question 04 and this one improves by itself
Rerun waste−2.2%
- We read
- Share of spend on repeated runs of the same failing task
- To fix
- Stop paying to run the same failing prompt again
Budget visibility−1.8%
- We read
- Teams that can see their own spend before the invoice arrives
- To fix
- Give every team its number weekly
Add your own checks
Any standard your team holds becomes a check. Every rule, severity and threshold is yours to change.
- PRs over 400 lines need two reviewersReview
- Every ticket links to an objectiveRoadmap
- No team spends over $5k a week on tokensAI cost
- Add a check
A to-do list, ranked by agent speed.
Every finding has a location and an owner. Fix the top one first.
- −3.0%6612
Objective with no stated problem, customer or owner
Roadmap · ENG-2884 · AI Analytics Integrations · −3.0%
- −2.7%94
Token spend with no ticket behind it
AI cost · Web app team · last 7 days · −2.7%
- −2.1%143
Change shipped, documentation left stale
Automation · navigaracom/vision · PR #2118 · −2.1%
- −1.8%3138
Agent task handed back before the pull request
Coding · navigaracom/vision · ENG-3012 · −1.8%
- −1.8%421
High-risk merge fixed again within 48 hours
Review · navigaracom/vision · PR #2004 · −1.8%
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Example data
- Fix Roadmap+13.4%
- Fix AI cost+10.7%
- Fix Automation+8.8%
- Fix Review+7.8%
- Fix Coding+7.0%
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