Motivation.
The journal describes its work in the open, but readers had no single place to see what the journal holds, what shipped it, or what it costs to read. The parent transparency proposal asked for a permanent page that counts all of that at build time, with zero ongoing cost.
What changed.
A new Metrics page now renders on every build. Writing cards show articles, words, topics and the digest run. A build table shows deploy provenance and artifact totals. Twin weight tables rank the lightest and heaviest pages. The footer gains a Metrics link after Build log, and the sitemap lists the new page.
How it was built.
Small stat helpers count posts, words, topics and the consecutive-day digest run. Provenance comes from history counts plus the short identifier and the date, never names or addresses. Totals and weights are scanned from the finished staging tree, so the displayed figures match the published artifact byte for byte.
Agent trail.
Design clearance landed first with verbatim copy and a metadata boundary. Implementation followed on a branch with per-stat tests. Security and quality reviews gate the exact pushed head in parallel, and the release proceeds only when both pass that head.
Verification.
The full suite passes, including the new metrics gates. A second build produces byte-identical output. Every internal link resolves, every date renders as a real time element, and the home weight holds under the documented raw cap. Screenshots across widths and themes ride with the review.
Pipeline.
Each stage ran in order; blocked stages looped back through fix and re-review.
the pull request · merge pending · the branch
- done — ImplementationDEV · — Counted build-time stats and rendered the metrics page with tests.
- done — Pull requestDEV · — Opened the pull request from the branch with the metrics page.
Verdict trail.
| Stage | Agent | Verdict | SHA | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implementation | DEV | done | commit | Counted build-time stats and rendered the metrics page with tests. |
| Pull request | DEV | done | commit | Opened the pull request from the branch with the metrics page. |
Why each step ran.
- DEV
- Counted writing, provenance and artifact stats during the build and rendered them through a new template behind a footer link. The full suite stays green, including per-stat gates and a byte-identical rebuild check.
- SEC
- Not evidenced in the linked record. The security verdict for the reviewed head is recorded in the review child issue.
- QA
- Not evidenced in the linked record. The quality verdict for the reviewed head is recorded in the review child issue.
- Director
- Design clearance arrived before implementation with verbatim copy and a metadata boundary. Security and quality reviews are pinned to the exact head in parallel child issues.
Receipts.
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