Rank management actions

Rank reversible, evidence-backed management actions and separate blocked work.

What it's for

You have more suggested actions than you have weeks. This orders them by impact, urgency, confidence and reversibility, and pulls out the ones that are blocked so they stop occupying the top of the list.

Turns alerts and insights into an explainable next-action queue.

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
actions array of objects (8 fields) Evidence Yes
max_actions integer ≥ 1 Your calibration Optional

Each actions record

Field Type Required
blocked_by array of string Optional
confidence number (≥ 0, ≤ 1) Yes
effort_hours number (≥ 0) Yes
id string (non-empty) Yes
impact number (≥ 0, ≤ 1) Yes
reversibility number (≥ 0, ≤ 1) Yes
title string (non-empty) Yes
urgency number (≥ 0, ≤ 1) Yes
Example input
{
  "actions": [
    {
      "confidence": 0.65,
      "effort_hours": 4,
      "id": "reduce_review_wip",
      "impact": 0.8,
      "reversibility": 0.95,
      "title": "Trial a review WIP limit",
      "urgency": 0.7
    }
  ]
}

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
{
  "blocked": [],
  "method": "management_action_priority_v1",
  "remaining": [],
  "selected": [
    {
      "blocked_by": [],
      "effort_hours": 4,
      "expected_impact": 0.52,
      "id": "reduce_review_wip",
      "learning_option": 0.0532,
      "priority_score": 40.43,
      "rationale": [
        "impact 80%",
        "urgency 70%",
        "evidence confidence 65%",
        "effort 4h",
        "reversible experiment preserves learning value"
      ],
      "title": "Trial a review WIP limit"
    }
  ],
  "selected_effort_hours": 4
}

How it works

Decision analysis — Turn uncertainty, cost and risk appetite into a defensible choice, with the reasoning left inspectable.

  1. 1 Rank reversible, evidence-backed management actions and separate blocked work.
  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

  • Actions, outcomes, utilities, evidence boundaries, uncertainty representation, and accountable ownership match the actual decision.
  • The result structures a governed choice; it does not replace accountable judgment or authorize action outside the declared decision boundary.

Minimum evidence

  • actions: required and organization-defined

How to validate it

Validate on future periods or held-out aggregate units, compare with a simple baseline, and require stability across plausible metric definitions and decision thresholds.

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

  • metric/outcome definitions, entity grain, observation window, costs, thresholds, priors, and constraints represented by the function inputs

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": "rank reversible evidencebacked management actions and" }
  → finds "rank_management_actions"

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

gitrevio_capability_run
  { "capability_id": "rank_management_actions", "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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