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The runs

Every report here is a real run, published as the shape of the work rather than as whose work it was. The numbers are recomputed from the run store, and the run that ended one checkpoint short is in the list on purpose.

  1. Report 1The fleet round

    A four-site web fleet, one shared component library, one round of coordinated changes

  2. Report 2The long build

    A large interactive feature built inside an existing site, and the checkpoint that never closed

  3. Report 3The engine run

    A static-analysis engine for a compiled language, with an evaluation suite as the release gate

The whole corpus

Three of these runs have a report above. The rest are here because a corpus that shows only the runs worth writing up is not a corpus, it is a portfolio. Every row is recomputed from the same store the reports are: what the run closed against what it planned, how many sessions it took, what it cost, and how its gates went.

Read down and the fortnight happens in order. It opens with a plan tried twice and dropped, a run aborted inside its first minute, and a prototype left where it stood when the work moved elsewhere. Those are the honest part of the list, and they are why the last row adds up to more than the three reports do.

The store still marks three of them running. They are not. Their engine exited without ever closing the record, and nobody went back. Whether a stopped run was abandoned or is merely waiting is the one thing about this corpus no query can answer, so it is written down by hand beside the name each run is published under — and the table says abandoned here rather than leaving a reader to assume the work is still in flight.

the runcheckpoints closedsessionsof engine timetokensspentgates green
A first attempt at an orchestrator plan, one session long, stopped before it had cost anythingabandoned<1morchestrator-prototype0/01<1m0$0.000/0
The same plan tried again three sessions later, still with no checkpoint declared and no gate greenabandoned38morchestrator-prototype0/0320m7.3M$0.170/4
A run aborted inside its first minute, kept because a corpus that hides its dead starts is not a corpusaborted14morchestrator-prototype0/0114m0$0.000/0
A prototype run that reached six of eleven checkpoints and was left there when the work moved elsewhereabandoned12h 20morchestrator-prototype6/111111h 19m109.7M$139.6827/27
A static-analysis engine for a compiled language, with an evaluation suite as the release gate4d 11hanalysis-engine22/222614h 47m523.7M$358.4272/81
Shared CI and a 404 page added to a site template in a single session11msite-template2/2111m3.2M$2.913/3
A web fleet's accumulated backlog worked to the end of the list across four sites14h 8mweb-fleet29/29247h 53m219.2M$224.2820/20
A four-site web fleet, one shared component library, one round of coordinated changes16h 3mweb-fleet25/252815h 1m621.4M$425.1232/32
The orchestrator's own core built by the orchestrator: sessions, gates and the event store15h 24morchestrator26/262814h 12m504.5M$360.1494/96
The round after the round: the same web fleet, a shorter list, and a run that closed every checkpoint it opened8h 31mweb-fleet17/17178h 13m317.6M$222.6338/38
A large interactive feature built inside an existing site - the run that ended at 45 of 46, and why the last one did not close1d 6hstudio-site45/46691d 1h494.4M$421.4659/59
A terminal interface for a long-running engine, written in a second language against the first one's store22h 45morchestrator24/244114h 40m397.2M$297.24104/110
A second interactive feature on the same site, planned after the first one had taught the plan what to say5h 21mstudio-site17/17155h 11m118.2M$97.4824/24
Continuous integration made honest across a set of related repos, the cheapest complete run in the corpus3h 26mci-health20/20123h 10m44.4M$37.9923/28
A third feature on the same site, including the way back out of it, closed at twenty of twenty6h 14mstudio-site20/20155h 46m141.8M$110.9343/43
The engine taught to account for itself - what it did and what it cost - and closed at 25 of 32, seven checkpoints short15h 43morchestrator25/323214h 1m403.9M$317.8497/100
The engine demonstrating itself against a throwaway repo, six sessions, no model spend<1morchestrator3/36<1m1.6K$0.006/6
A rehearsal of one engine feature end to end before it was let near real work<1morchestrator6/610<1m2.9K$0.006/6
The orchestrator's own release era - seven stages of hardening and an open door for other people's plans - ended by hand at the ship stage once the release it was for was outaborted1d 11horchestrator30/32246h 53m198.6M$147.5566/68
The era after that release - gates an agent cannot game, and a courier that carries a run to a phone - parked one checkpoint short at a ship step only a person can perform, and released by hand from that park rather than by resuming the runabandoned1d 1horchestrator23/242314h 39m414.3M$324.0167/68
20 runs across 7 repositories340/3563876d 17h4.5B$3,487.85781/813

Recomputed from conductor history --json --limit 0 and run.db, opened read-only. Nothing in this table is typed in.