Developer Delivery Instrumentation

Pathmeter

Built a local-first CLI that measures idea → scaffolded → first-run → validated → shipped cycles, runs real quality gates, and identifies the recurring delivery phase that is actually slow.

Public technical artifact

Problem

What this was built against.

Developers often optimize scaffolding and generation even when the expensive delay is later in first-run, validation or shipping.

System

How the work closes the loop.

Feature commitment → five milestone events → configured validation commands → ship refusal on failed gates → repeated-cycle bottleneck report.

Evidence now

What an employer can safely inspect.

Claim boundary

What this does not prove.

Next evidence event

What would upgrade the proof.

Instrument 7–10 real feature cycles, identify the recurring bottleneck, automate exactly one repeated gap, then compare before/after cycle time.