Built with bassclef
A running tally of the disciplines that shipped this site — luminaries dispatched, skills fired, temperance-per-PR, and the negative-space signals that separate honest data from vanity metrics.
Every number below is a count computed from files in this repository. Skills and luminaries leave marker files as they run; the tally is regenerated on every push to main.
Headline metrics 30-day window
Why this matters: Sam wants trust proof he can absorb in 30 seconds — the top row answers “is the discipline actually running?”. Louis wants a fair read of adoption cost — the ratios say what's cheap vs. what's not. Morgan wants raw counts to check the abstraction is earned — every number is a file path away.
Temperance per PR
97.7%
42 of 43 PRs merged this month had a temperance marker on their branch.
Chronicles written
22
One narrative log per substantive session; 39 lifetime.
Luminaries dispatched
10 distinct
alan-cooper, michael-feathers, sophia-prater top the frequency.
Skills dispatched
50 distinct
/docs most frequent.
Markers written
134
Across 18 gate types; audit trail per commit.
Data freshness
partial
Generated 8/30/2026, 9:12:47 PM.
Cost signal illustrative · token-only
Why this matters: Sam wants a rough sense of what running bassclef costs. Louis wants to project his own bill before adopting. Morgan wants the underlying math not the marketing. Token estimate is illustrative — actual per-turn tokens vary by model + task shape; hosting + CI + tools not included.
Approximate turns
1,380
Sum of chronicle turns field across 13 chronicles this window. 9 more chronicles missing the field — real count is higher.
Estimated tokens
~2.07M
approximate_turns × 1,500 tokens/turn (rough average for /longrun sessions). Illustrative — actual varies by model, tool use, and prompt shape.
Models used
Claude Opus 4.7 (per session config)
From chronicle frontmatter model field where present, else session-config default.
Luminaries dispatched 30d · top 10
Why this matters: Louis picks lenses relevant to his org's work — Cooper for marketing surfaces, Beck for infrastructure, Norman for interaction. Which luminaries lead here signals what kind of work shipped. Sam sees named practitioners, not marketing terms.
| Slug | Dispatches | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| alan-cooper | 2 | |
| michael-feathers | 2 | |
| sophia-prater | 2 | |
| edward-tufte | 2 | |
| don-norman | 1 | |
| david-parnas | 1 | |
| douglas-atkin | 1 | |
| donald-norman | 1 | |
| frederick-brooks | 1 | |
| tony-hoare | 1 |
Skills dispatched 30d · top 15
Why this matters: Morgan checks which gates actually fire vs. which live only in the README — dispatch counts show what earns its keep. Sam sees which named workflows he'd meet on day one.
| Skill | Dispatches |
|---|---|
| /docs | 39 |
| /longrun | 19 |
| /build | 11 |
| /ticket | 8 |
| /launch | 6 |
| /lean-canvas | 6 |
| /session-end | 6 |
| /howdoi | 6 |
| /auth | 6 |
| /download | 6 |
| /gone | 6 |
| /diagnose | 5 |
| /roadmap-reconcile | 5 |
| /skill | 5 |
| /riff | 5 |
Negative space honest posture per Popper
Why this matters: Morgan and Louis both flinch at frameworks that only report their wins. Popper's falsifiability principle says the claim is only meaningful if the counter-signal is visible too. Sam reads negative space as the strongest single trust signal on the page.
What the framework did NOT do — the counter-signal that separates honest data from vanity metrics.
20 of the last 22 chronicles missing the authoring_luminaries frontmatter field (91%). Discipline holds unevenly; the framework surfaces its own gaps.
1 PRs merged this month WITHOUT a temperance marker. Discipline is not perfect; honest signal beats vanity metric.
Known open issues on this site
bassclef-web#202— agents emit retired WU-N vocab in new-authored plan docs and prep output (fix in flight)bassclef-web#203— longrun-prep compounding-axis hook fires false-positive on compliant 3-option prep (fix in flight)- bassclef-web is private during pre-release; opens publicly at v1.0. Issue numbers referenced by ticket ID.