ai-agents-metrics 0.2.1

CLI for tracking AI agent task metrics: token cost, retry pressure, and outcome quality.

ai-agents-metrics

Analyze your AI agent work history. Track spending. Optimize your workflow.

AI is writing more of your code. You still don't know:

• How many attempts each task actually takes
• Where the process breaks down and why
• Whether your workflow is getting faster or generating more rework

ai-agents-metrics extracts these signals from your existing Claude Code or Codex history — no manual setup required. Point it at your history files and see what's happening: retry pressure, token cost, session timeline. For richer tracking, add explicit goal boundaries and outcome labels on top.

Running this on 6 months of Claude Code + Codex history (3.85B tokens, 160 threads) surfaced:

• 100% of Claude "retries" are subagent spawns, not user retries — attempt_count > 1 is structural, not a failure signal (F-001)
• Subagent delegation halves main-session tokens within-thread — median 2.05× compression, p = 0.000456 (F-007)
• Per-skill compression ranking — Explore 2.63×, code-reviewer 3.25×, commit 0.72× (F-008)

Full index: docs/findings/. N=1 developer; the mechanisms generalize because they come from the tools, not the data.

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Quick start

pipx install ai-agents-metrics

ai-agents-metrics history-update     # reads ~/.codex + ~/.claude by default
ai-agents-metrics show               # retry pressure, cost, session timeline
ai-agents-metrics render-html        # interactive HTML report

Non-default history paths, full command list, and manual goal tracking (optional): CLI reference.

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What you get

• History extraction — retry pressure, token cost, model usage from existing session files. No setup.
• HTML report — one self-contained file, summary strip + 5 trend charts, opens in any browser.
• Optional manual tracking — add goal boundaries and outcome labels on top of history for per-task breakdowns.

Not a benchmark, not an eval framework, not a model comparison tool. It is a local analysis tool for real engineering work done with AI.

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Privacy

All data stays local. Writes only to:

• .ai-agents-metrics/warehouse.db — local SQLite warehouse used by the history pipeline
• metrics/events.ndjson — append-only event log for manual goal tracking (opt-in)
• docs/ai-agents-metrics.md — optional markdown export (regenerated on demand)

No data is sent to any remote service.

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Links

• Repository · Changelog · Contributing · Security
• CLI reference · Findings · Architecture