What should go on an agent scorecard?
Character_County4981 · reddit · 2026-07-20
The post asks which five metrics should go on an agent scorecard and argues that the most meaningful ones are:
- Spend per agent or per team, once usage is tagged.
- Cost per successful outcome, instead of cost per run, because retry-heavy agents can look better than they are.
- Orphaned agents that are still running but have no owner.
- ROI, though the author notes that value is harder to automate than cost.
- The savings from killing underperforming agents.
The main point is that cost is easy to measure, but deciding whether an agent is actually worth keeping — and who should make that call — is still an open operational gap.
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