Progress

The Qompass AI estate progress board. One page — TRACKER.md — shows where each main project actually stands: a progress bar, a state, the next step, and a dated log per project.

This board exists so progress is a matter of record, not of impression. The workers building these projects (Pax, Azoth, Astra, and dispatched build workers) mark their own progress here as part of finishing a stage.

The standing rule

A bar never moves on a claim. A bar moves only on a gate.

A gate is verified evidence: a test run with exact counts, a build that passes its checks, a review of the artifact against its brief, a live read-back of a deployed change. If the evidence has not been checked by the gatekeeper, the bar does not move — no matter how finished the work feels. Estimates, intentions, and "almost done" are not progress and are never recorded as any.

How a worker marks progress

1. Finish and gate the work first. The gate evidence exists before the board changes, never after.
2. Edit your project's row in TRACKER.md. Set the bar and the percentage from the stage arithmetic in the project file below — completed gated stages over total planned stages — not from a feeling about the work.
3. Update the state and next step so the row reads true for someone who has never seen the project.
4. Append a dated line to your project's log section in TRACKER.md: what stage closed, what the gate evidence was, and the new percentage. Newest entries at the top of the section.
5. Commit with a conventional message, e.g. progress(strobe): Stage A evidence gated — 30% → 40%. One project per commit.

Stage arithmetic

Each project's percentage is gated stages ÷ planned stages, weighted where a stage was split into lettered substages of known size. The seed percentages (2026-10-20) were set by Pax from the gated state of each program on that date, and each project's log records the basis. When a program's stage map changes, the log entry that moves the bar notes the new denominator.

What lives here

• TRACKER.md — the board: one row per project plus a dated log per project.
• README.md — this file: the rules of the board.
• LICENSE — Apache License 2.0.

Project code, designs, and evidence live in each project's own repository. This repo holds the summary of record only.