Agent Readiness Index · pilot kit

Start with the systems that matter.

An ARI pilot maps 10–20 repositories to business impact and the coding-agent tasks you want to enable. Leadership gets a baseline and a clear sequence for improvement.

Your first ARI readoutA static readiness baseline with linked findings, pilot candidates, critical risks, and a 90-day decision plan. Approved command checks and agent-task trials provide additional evidence.
01 · Choose your assessment

Three decisions. Independently scoped.

Agent Readiness Index (ARI)

Primary assessment for coding-agent adoption. Agree the target tasks, repositories, agent, and review constraints. Receive the static baseline, pilot priorities, and remediation plan; include approved command checks and task trials in the agreed scope.

Repository Health Review

Independent review of reproducibility, verification, documentation, and maintainability. Combine repository findings with an engineering walkthrough. Receive a health assessment and prioritised improvement plan. Broader architecture analysis is agreed separately with the system owners.

Change Safety Review

Independent review of verification, release gates, ownership, and operational controls. Agree access to CI, deployment, and rollback evidence where relevant. Receive a control-gap register and remediation priorities; production conclusions depend on the operational evidence reviewed.

Each review can be purchased on its own or alongside ARI, with its own scope and executive readout. The reviews combine tool evidence and expert assessment.

02 · Bring to scoping

A representative slice of your systems.

Systems

Include Tier-1 production services, high-change areas, a legacy concern, a platform/library, and at least one lower-criticality comparison.

Business context

For each repository: system, owner, criticality, production status, sensitivity, and known dependencies. Paths stay inside your environment.

Working evidence

Provide the documented setup and test commands, CI policy, and deployment/rollback owners where available. For ARI, include the agent tasks you want to enable.

Decision owner

Name the person who can agree the scope, approve any task trials, and own remediation.

03 · Six-week ARI sequence

Diagnose, improve, prove.

  1. Week 0: agree inventory, target agent tasks, profiles, access, and what can be executed.
  2. Week 1: run private static scans; review evidence with senior engineers; run approved command plans.
  3. Week 1: deliver the ARI portfolio readout, risk register, and pilot priorities.
  4. Weeks 2–5: address the highest-priority controls; where approved, run bounded agent/verifier trials as separate evidence.
  5. Week 6: reassess with the same rubric and separate repository change from rubric change.
04 · Success criteria

A decision you can act on.

At the end of an ARI pilot, leadership should know which systems need foundational work, which are candidates for supervised task trials, which evidence is still missing, and which improvements measurably moved the baseline. Independent reviews agree their own outcomes and timeline during scoping.

The template is a local JSON starting point, not a form submission. This site does not collect repository paths or source code.