dora-metrics

dora-metrics is a skill for Claude Code from caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system. It costs 47 tokens per session (510 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to measuring software delivery with the four DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and time to restore service. These metrics show how often teams ship, how quickly they ship, and how well they recover from failed changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for engineering health reviews, to compare delivery performance over time, and to decide whether to invest in testing, release processes, or rollback and incident practices.
Why use it?
Teams may argue about delivery speed without knowing where the actual bottleneck is. These measurements help identify whether the problem is slow releases, risky changes, or slow recovery.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for engineering health reviews, to compare delivery performance over time, and to decide whether to invest in testing, release processes, or rollback and incident practices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system/dora-metrics
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system --skill dora-metrics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 510 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00047 $0.00510
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00204
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00051

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 903737d2d868, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dora-metrics scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/dora-metrics/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Mission

Make delivery performance visible and improvable. A system that ships and responds to incidents but measures nothing cannot tell if it is getting better.

When to use

  • Periodic engineering-health review.
  • After a quarter of releases/incidents, to find the bottleneck.
  • When deciding where to invest in process or tooling.

The four metrics

1. Deployment frequency

How often code reaches production. Higher is healthier — it means small, low-risk batches. Signal of trouble: infrequent, large releases.

2. Lead time for changes

Time from commit to running in production. Shorter means a tighter feedback loop. Measure from first commit on a change to its production deploy.

3. Change failure rate

Percentage of deploys that cause a degradation requiring remediation (rollback, hotfix, incident). Elite is low single digits. Rising rate means review/test gates are too weak.

4. Time to restore (MTTR)

Time from incident start to user impact ended. Pairs with incident-response. Driven by detection speed, rollback ease, and runbook quality.

How to read them together

  • High failure rate + slow restore → invest in gates and rollback safety.
  • Low deploy frequency + long lead time → batches too big; invest in CI and smaller changes.
  • Good speed metrics + high failure rate → moving fast and breaking things; tighten review. The goal is balance: speed AND stability move together in healthy teams.

Method

  1. Pull raw data: deploy log, git log for lead time, incident records for failures and MTTR.
  2. Compute each metric for the period.
  3. Compare to the previous period — direction matters more than absolute value.
  4. Name the single biggest bottleneck and one concrete action to move it.

Output

# DORA REVIEW — [period]
Deployment frequency: [value] (trend)
Lead time: [value] (trend)
Change failure rate: [value] (trend)
Time to restore: [value] (trend)
Bottleneck: [the one metric to improve next]
Recommended action: [one concrete change]
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 903737d2d868

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dora-metrics is a skill published in the GitHub repository caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 510 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-15.

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