| name | metrics |
| description | Print a debt-ops health summary from the metrics log, covering registration rate, hook feedback action rate, ADR creation, and AI-authored share. Use when the user asks for "debt-ops metrics", "debt health", "registry stats", or invokes /debt-ops:metrics. Read-only, never writes the log. |
| allowed-tools | Bash, Read |
| metadata | {"internal":true} |
/debt-ops:metrics
Read the hidden metrics log and tell the user whether v1's tripwires are tripping.
1. Find the log
TOPLEVEL=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
REPO_HASH=$(printf '%s' "$TOPLEVEL" | shasum | cut -c1-12)
CACHE_DIR=""
for D in \
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA:+"$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA/cache/$REPO_HASH"} \
"$HOME/.claude/plugins/data"/debt-ops*/cache/"$REPO_HASH" \
"$HOME/.cache/debt-ops/cache/$REPO_HASH"; do
[ -d "$D" ] && { CACHE_DIR="$D"; break; }
done
LOG="$CACHE_DIR/metrics.jsonl"
if [ -n "$CACHE_DIR" ] && [ -f "$LOG" ]; then
tail -n 500 "$LOG"
else
echo "MISSING: no metrics.jsonl found for repo hash $REPO_HASH"
fi
If the file is missing or empty, tell the user the hooks haven't fired yet in this repo and stop.
2. The log format
One JSON object per line, three event shapes:
{"event":"edit","file":"...","registry_count":N,"ts":"..."} — every agent edit
{"event":"feedback","file":"...","result":"pass|fail","ts":"..."} — every quality-check fire
{"event":"session","registry_count":N,"adr_count":M,"ai_authored_count":K,"ts":"..."} — start of each session
Timestamps are ISO-8601 UTC.
3. Compute the tripwires
Filter to the last 7 days. Then compute:
- Edits / sessions — counts of
event:edit and event:session.
- Registry growth — last
registry_count minus first (across either edit or session events). >0 means Discipline 1 is firing.
- ADR growth — last
adr_count minus first (session events only).
- AI-authored share trend — first vs. last session percentage (
ai_authored_count / registry_count, when registry_count>0).
- Feedback pass rate —
count(result:pass) / count(event:feedback).
- FAIL → PASS rate — for each feedback event with
result:fail, look at the next feedback event for the same file. Count those that flipped to pass. Divide by total fails. Below 50% means Claude isn't reliably acting on hook output — the architectural alarm bell.
If there are fewer than 5 sessions in the window, say "need more data" and skip the verdict.
4. Report
One screen. No padding. Use → and ↑/↓ for trends. Example shape:
debt-ops metrics — last 7 days
─────────────────────────────────
edits : 142 (8 sessions, ~18 edits/session)
registry : +3
adrs : +1
ai-authored : 50% → 60% ↑
feedback ran : 89 times
pass rate : 88%
fail → pass rate: 80% (8/10)
verdict: ok
End with one judgment line:
- ok — registry growth >0 AND fail→pass rate ≥50%.
- investigate: — name the specific tripwire that tripped.
Don't
- Don't write to the log.
- Don't compute metrics not listed above.
- Don't guess at health when data is thin — say "need more data" instead.