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assay · the board · our pipeline, as it stands

The board

Where work is waiting in our own agent-delivery pipeline right now. Every brief (a unit of work, sized and gated before it is dispatched) moves through the same lifecycle; this board shows the median time work sits at each stage, including the slow ones, how much is in progress at each, and what is waiting on a person. A board that showed only the fast numbers would tell you nothing, so the slow ones are here too.

Snapshot taken2026-09-06T13:25:59Z
Briefs in scope427
Constraint blockmeasured
Coverageone repository - the Assay toolkit's own development repository

Where work waits, by lifecycle stage

Each row is one stage of the lifecycle every unit of work travels, todo → in-progress → implemented → verified → done, plus blocked and the exited pool. Dwell is the median time a unit sat in that stage; in progress is how many are sitting there now.

Median dwell and work-in-progress, by lifecycle stage
Lifecycle stageMedian dwellIn progressWhat it is
todo→in-progress constraint7.9d96the stage the constraint locator currently flags, where work is piling up
in-progress→implemented4.6d4median time a unit of work waited in this stage
implemented→verified10.5d62median time a unit of work waited in this stage
verified→donenot computed — no exits in window0median time a unit of work waited in this stage
done (exited)19.8d257median time a unit of work waited in this stage
blocked3.6d8median time a unit of work waited in this stage

What is waiting on a person

Two places in the pipeline wait on a person rather than an agent. The sign-off queue holds built work awaiting independent verification and verified work awaiting a human merge; the intake front door holds inbound items awaiting a disposition. Each queue's age is its oldest waiting item, the tail rather than an average.

The sign-off queue

  • Awaiting a human decision3

    briefs parked on a human sign-off right now

  • Oldest waiting7d

    age of the longest-waiting decision, the tail rather than an average

  • In implemented / in verified3 / 0

    work built but not yet independently verified / verified but not yet done

The intake front door

  • Untriaged intake0

    inbound items not yet dispositioned

  • Oldest untriaged0 d

    against a 3-day threshold

  • Over threshold0

    items past the intake-debt threshold