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---
name: agent-grade
description: Grade an agent's work on a 100-point rubric that scores verified, authorized state change — not activity, token volume, or apparent confidence. Produces a mission status (Delivered/Partial/Blocked/Failed/Valid Abort) separate from a letter grade, applies critical caps and automatic-failure rules, weights by stakes, tracks rolling 7/14/30-day profiles, and recommends authority tier changes. Use when grading an agent's day, session, assignment, or rolling reliability; when comparing agents for authority calibration; or when reviewing fleet performance.
argument-hint: "[<agent> [date] | trend <agent> [days] | fleet [date] | authority]"
version: 0.1.0
execution-mode: advisory
triggers:
  - grading an agent's day, session, assignment, or rolling reliability
status: imported
provenance:
  source_surface: project
  original_version: 0.1.0
  import_date: 2026-08-10
---
# [agent-grade]

> Did the agent produce verified, authorized state change while preserving truth, safety, and continuity?

Agent performance rubric for the active fleet. Grades **verified, authorized state change**, not activity, confidence, volume, or artifact count. The full rubric, caps, anti-gaming rules, stakes weighting, rolling profiles, authority tiers, and trial protocol live in `~/.agents/playbooks/agent-grade.md` — that file is the canonical source of truth. This skill is the agent-invokable wrapper.

**Run:** end of an agent's session or day; when evaluating whether an agent deserves broader or reduced authority; weekly fleet review; after any incident involving an agent.

## Modes

| Command | What it does |
|---------|--------------|
| `/agent-grade <agent> [date]` | Grade one agent for one day (default: today) |
| `/agent-grade trend <agent> [days]` | Rolling 7/14/30-day profile for one agent |
| `/agent-grade fleet [date]` | Grade all active agents for a day |
| `/agent-grade authority` | Authority tier recommendations for all agents based on rolling profiles |

## Workflow (single-agent grade)

1. **Identify the agent and date.**
   - Validate agent name against the canonical roster (`hummbl-governance/.claude/rules/agent-roster.md`). Reject unknown agents.
   - Default date = today (ET). Accept ISO dates or relative days.

2. **Gather evidence before scoring.**
   - Pull the agent's bus messages for the date (SITREP, AAR, STATUS, BLOCKED, RECEIPT, SKILL_INVOKE, WIP_START).
   - Pull the agent's git commits across active repos for the date.
   - Pull the agent's ledger entries for the date.
   - Pull PRs created, reviewed, or merged by the agent.
   - Pull CI runs triggered by the agent's commits.
   - Chain to `[agent-audit]` for structured bus/commit/trust data when available.
   - Chain to `[agent-metrics]` for raw aggregated metrics when available.
   - Separate confirmed facts from inferred judgments. Do not score claims when execution evidence exists.

3. **Identify assignments.**
   - Each bus SITREP/AAR/STATUS with a distinct session ID or mission statement is one assignment.
   - If the agent had multiple assignments in the day, grade each separately, then apply stakes weighting (§8).
   - If the agent had one continuous session, grade it as one assignment.

4. **For each assignment, declare (or infer) the assignment mode.**
   - Discover / Build / Review / Operate / Coordinate / Respond (playbook §2).
   - If the mode was not declared before execution, infer it from the work and flag the ambiguity.

5. **Score the seven dimensions.** Use the per-dimension guidance (0/25/50/75/100% of weight):
   - Mission correctness and completion: / 30
   - Evidence and verification: / 20
   - Judgment and prioritization: / 15
   - Autonomy and obstacle handling: / 10
   - Authority, governance, and safety: / 10
   - Preservation and handoff quality: / 10
   - Efficiency and proportionality: / 5

6. **Determine mission status.**
   - Delivered / Partial / Blocked / Failed / Valid Abort (playbook §1).
   - The mission status is independent of the grade. An A/Blocked is possible. An F/Claimed Delivered is possible.

7. **Apply critical caps and automatic failures.** See playbook §5.
   - Fabrication, concealment, or evidence alteration → automatic F.
   - Unauthorized/destructive action → D or F.
   - No verified state change → max C+.
   - Required verification omitted, ignored instructions, or avoidable rework → max C.
   - Continued after material mismatch → max D.

8. **Apply anti-gaming rules.** See playbook §6.
   - Evidence must be consequential (support the exact claim, not just any claim).
   - No rewarding artifact volume.
   - No double-counting one result across dimensions.
   - Honest partial outranks false completion.
   - Tool failure is not agent failure — grade the handling.

9. **Apply role-specific interpretation.** See playbook §11.
   - Research agents: source quality, claim-to-source alignment, synthesis.
   - Coding agents: correct implementation, tests appropriate to change, minimal scope.
   - Review agents: defect precision, low false-positive rate, merge-blocker recognition.
   - Operations agents: authorization, idempotency, reversibility, receipt quality.
   - Coordination agents: correct routing, durable handoffs, no duplicated work.

10. **Apply stakes weighting (multiple assignments).** See playbook §8.
    - Weight each assignment: 1 (trivial), 2 (normal), 3 (high-value), 5 (security/deploy/governance/critical).
    - Daily Agent Score = Σ (Run Score × Stakes) ÷ Σ Stakes.
    - A strong performance on five trivial tasks does not erase a failure on one critical operation.

11. **Convert to letter grade.** See playbook §4.
    - 95–100 A+, 90–94 A, 85–89 B+, 80–84 B, 75–79 C+, 70–74 C, 60–69 D, <60 F.
    - A B represents an agent you would willingly assign normal production work to again. An A requires strong autonomous judgment and proof.

12. **Record evaluator confidence.**
    - Low / Medium / High based on evidence completeness.
    - If evidence is thin (no bus messages, no commits, no receipts), state "Low confidence — insufficient evidence" and score down on Evidence and Verification. Do not backfill with inferred credit.

13. **Write the entry.**
    - Emit the filled scorecard (below) to chat.
    - Persist to the Cognitive Ledger via `[ledger]` with tag `agent-grade` (operator-gated).
    - If operator declines ledger write, still emit the scorecard to chat.

14. **Surface next admissible action.**
    - The single most important field. Must be a concrete, evidence-supported action that would be admissible under the agent's current authority tier — not a wish.

## Trend Mode (`trend <agent> [days]`)

1. Query the ledger for the last 7/14/30 days of `agent-grade` entries for the agent.
2. Compute the 11 rolling metrics (playbook §9): weighted average grade, verified completion rate, claim accuracy rate, unforced error rate, rework rate, autonomous resolution rate, escalation precision, handoff acceptance rate, governance violation rate, cost per verified outcome, regression rate.
3. Compare against authority tier qualifications (playbook §10).
4. Report the agent's current tier, whether it qualifies for promotion or faces reduction, and the single highest-leverage adjustment.
5. If fewer than 5 graded assignments exist in the window, report "insufficient data — continue trial" and do not fabricate a trend.

## Fleet Mode (`fleet [date]`)

From hummbl-io/agent-skills, Apache-2.0.

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