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The method

Work with coding agents and keep the record straight.

Pick the track for what you are building. Each one adds its own tools to a core that every track shares. Each tool does only what it does today, and the numbers at the end come from the Lab write-ups, not from this page.

Every track

The shared core

The backlog, the commit and the usage work the same whatever is being built.

  1. 01

    Keep the backlog a schema

    roadkeep owns the writes to the roadmap, the changelog and the rationale. An agent files and ships work through a command that checks the line's shape at insertion, and the Claude Code plugin refuses the hand-edit, so the backlog cannot drift when someone is in a hurry.

  2. 02

    See what every project owes

    roadkeep's desktop app finds every governed checkout on the machine and shows what each has shipped and still owes. It files or ships a line through the roadkeep command, and hands a task to Claude Code as a session it starts, claims and shows while it works.

  3. 03

    Let the diff write the commit

    commitclerk reads the staged diff, asks an LLM for a Conventional Commits message, shows it to you and commits only once you agree.

  4. 04

    Keep the usage in view

    Claude Code Tray puts the rate-limit percentage in the tray, read from the session files already on disk.

Measured, not claimed

What the records say

One developer's sessions, attributed from transcripts and git history. Each figure links the sentence it is quoted from.

Time Study
530 h

of attributed time, across 556 sessions in 59 days

“59 calendar days, 556 sessions, 31 projects, 530 hours of attributed time” — source
Time Study
11.2%

of active time went to authoring the feature

“feature authoring is 11.2%, less than half the expected share” — source
Time Study
27.3%

went to writing and running tests

“Tests (writing + running) | 124 | 27.3%” — source
Usage Simulator
1,864

tasks measured, over 79,377 requests in 32 active days

“The current snapshot covers 1,864 tasks and 79,377 requests over 32 active days.” — source
Usage Simulator
$777

for the most expensive five-hour window on record, at list prices

“the most expensive five-hour window on record cost $777 at list prices with work uninterrupted” — source