Outcomes

Every workspace is an attempt at something: its first message is the task, and the agents that held a conversation in it did the work. Outcomes are what became of each attempt — and, over time, a record of how each agent does on your own work.

Saying how an attempt went

Right after you archive or delete a workspace, the bottom of the sidebar asks: How did it go? Kept, Partly or Discarded — one click, and optional. × leaves it unanswered; you can label it any time later.

Outcomes… in a project's menu lists every attempt in the project, newest first — live, archived and deleted alike — with its task, its agents, its outcome and the evidence beside it. Click a label to set it; click the same label again to take it back.

What counts

• Your label always counts, and wins over anything else.
• A merge counts as kept while you have said nothing: a pull request merged on the forge (seen through the GitHub CLI), or a branch whose commits were later found in its base branch — a merge or a fast-forward. The view marks these merged, not labelled. A squash merge leaves no trace in git, which is why the pull request is read too. Resetting a branch back to its base throws its work away, and is not a merge. An attempt keeps the pull request opened while it was going; a later one on the same branch belongs to the attempt that opened it. The view reads the pull requests Yardsort already knows about from the publish panel, and never waits on the network.
• Nothing else. A closed pull request, a branch ahead of its base, an archived or deleted workspace, an agent that exited with an error — each is shown as evidence beside the attempt, and none is ever counted as an outcome. An attempt with no label and no merge has no outcome.

Deleting a workspace keeps its attempt: its name, branch, task and agents are copied before the workspace goes, so it can still be judged. Removing a project from Yardsort without keeping its history removes its outcomes too.

Each agent's history

Above the attempts, the Outcomes view gives each agent's history in the project: kept 3 of 5 (1 by merge) · partly 1 · discarded 1. An attempt two agents worked in — a handoff, say — counts for both.

The composer shows the same for the agent you have picked, across all your projects, under its pickers. Until an agent has five attempts with an outcome, it says too few to say yet with the count so far: a handful of attempts never makes a winner. It is shown, never used to choose for you.