Estimate dynamic execution factor

Extract a direction-aligned latent execution factor from aggregate metric vectors and forecast its level and velocity with a likelihood-tuned local-linear-trend state-space model.

What it's for

Gives executives one uncertainty-aware execution state without averaging incompatible metrics or hiding the loadings behind a proprietary score.

What you give it

Inputs split into evidence read from your connected systems, calibration your team owns, and numerical controls that affect precision but never the result's meaning.

Field Type Role Required
confidence_level number ≥ 0.8, ≤ 0.99 Your calibration Optional
directions object Evidence Yes
forecast_periods integer ≥ 1, ≤ 52 Your calibration Optional
max_detail_rows integer ≥ 1, ≤ 500 Numerical control Optional
metric_names array of string ≥ 3 items Evidence Yes
minimum_state_change number ≥ 0, ≤ 5 Your calibration Optional
observations array of objects (3 fields) ≥ 60 items Evidence Yes

Each observations record

Field Type Required
id string (non-empty) Yes
metrics object Yes
period integer Yes
Example input
{
  "directions": {
    "cycle_time": "lower_is_better",
    "reliability": "higher_is_better",
    "throughput": "higher_is_better"
  },
  "forecast_periods": 8,
  "metric_names": [
    "throughput",
    "reliability",
    "cycle_time"
  ],
  "observations": [
    {
      "id": "execution-factor-0",
      "metrics": {
        "cycle_time": 0,
        "reliability": 0,
        "throughput": 0
      },
      "period": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "execution-factor-1",
      "metrics": {
        "cycle_time": 0.013333333333333332,
        "reliability": 0.145,
        "throughput": 0.07666666666666666
      },
      "period": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "execution-factor-2",
      "metrics": {
        "cycle_time": 0.026666666666666665,
        "reliability": 0.08,
        "throughput": 0.15333333333333332
      },
      "period": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "execution-factor-3",
      "metrics": {
        "cycle_time": -0.05,

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What you get back

This is the actual output of running the example above — computed by the same function the platform calls, not an illustration.

Example output
{
  "assumptions": [
    "Metrics are complete, comparable, consecutive aggregate time series and each declared direction maps improvement onto a common execution-positive orientation.",
    "One linear Gaussian latent factor plus a local linear trend adequately represents shared movement; metric-specific shocks, multiple factors, seasonality, and structural breaks can invalidate the summary.",
    "PCA loadings are descriptive covariance weights, not causal contributions, while variance parameters are selected by a bounded likelihood grid and require outcome calibration before operational use.",
    "The latent state describes an organization, portfolio, team, project, or service cohort above the privacy threshold and must not be interpreted as an individual performance score."
  ],
  "current_state": {
    "forecast_change_interval": [
      -0.16276,
      1.751114
    ],
    "forecast_horizon_change": 0.794177,
    "level": 2.904845,
    "velocity": 0.099272
  },
  "decision": "latent_execution_state_stable_or_uncertain",
  "forecast": [
    {
      "period": 60,
      "state_interval": [
        2.607073,
        3.401162
      ],
      "state_mean": 3.004117,
      "velocity_mean": 0.099272
    },
    {
      "period": 61,
      "state_interval": [
        2.639884,
        3.566895
      ],
      "state_mean": 3.10339,
      "velocity_mean": 0.099272
    },
    {
      "period": 62,
      "state_interval": [
        2.667509,
        3.737814
      ],
      "state_mean": 3.202662,
      "velocity_mean": 0.099272

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How it works

Markov & state-space control — Choose a policy over evolving states when today's action changes tomorrow's options.

  1. 1 Extract a direction-aligned latent execution factor from aggregate metric vectors and forecast its level and velocity with a likelihood-tuned local-linear-trend state-space model.
  2. 2 Evaluate the method-specific diagnostics and gates returned by the function, then abstain unless the declared decision clears them under locally governed thresholds.

Before you trust it

Every tool in the catalog ships with the conditions under which its answer is meaningful — and the conditions under which it should abstain instead of guessing.

Assumptions & guardrails

  • States are decision-sufficient at the chosen cadence and transition evidence is recent, identifiable, and not silently pooled across incompatible regimes.
  • A policy is conditional on the declared state abstraction and transition model; hidden omitted state can invalidate its ranking.

Minimum evidence

  • observations: at least 60 rows/items
  • metric_names: at least 3 rows/items
  • directions: required and organization-defined

How to validate it

Use chronological train/calibration/test windows, compare proper scores and decision value with a simple baseline, and recalibrate only from outcomes resolved after prediction time.

Calibrating it to your org

Same for everyone

The mathematical kernel, validation rules, method version, and JSON output semantics are organization-independent; no tenant-trained coefficients or company benchmark is embedded in the function.

Specific to you

  • consecutive complete metric vector
  • stable integer period index
  • privacy-eligible aggregate scope
  • higher/lower-is-better direction per metric
  • analysis epoch and cadence
  • forecast horizon and material state change

Calibration workflow

  1. 1 Define the management decision, target outcome, aggregate unit, privacy boundary, cadence, and prediction/intervention horizon for this organization.
  2. 2 Build a tenant-scoped historical cohort using only information available before each prediction or decision; preserve zero periods, censoring, assignment probabilities, and unresolved outcomes when the method requires them.
  3. 3 Estimate statistical parameters on training history, but obtain costs, utilities, risk tolerance, practical-effect thresholds, capacity, and policy constraints from accountable decision owners.
  4. 4 Validate on later time windows or held-out aggregate units at the deployment grain, against a simple baseline and the function-specific validation strategy.
  5. 5 Deploy only if the returned decision clears evidence, overlap, calibration, robustness, and guardrail checks; warning, unsupported, schema-gap, and fallback decisions are abstentions.
  6. 6 Monitor realized outcomes, data drift, coverage, and decision regret; recalibrate at a governed cadence or after a detected regime/definition change, never merely because a stakeholder dislikes the result.

Call it from your AI

You don't wire up 388 tools in your MCP client. The GitRevio MCP server exposes 18 tools, three of which let an agent search the catalog, read a tool's schema, and run it — so the assistant finds this one on its own.

gitrevio_capabilities_search
  { "q": "extract a directionaligned latent execution factor" }
  → finds "estimate_dynamic_execution_factor"

gitrevio_capability_describe
  { "capability_id": "estimate_dynamic_execution_factor" }
  → returns the input schema and agent guidance shown on this page

gitrevio_capability_run
  { "capability_id": "estimate_dynamic_execution_factor", "arguments": { ... } }
  → returns the result shown above

Works in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue.dev, Goose and Aider. See the MCP server.

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