Originally published at devopsdiary.blog. Post R24 in "The Quiet Years" series.
The draft title for this post has been sitting in my publishing calendar since April: "I Built 24 Repos in 60 Days." Every few weeks I'd glance at it and the number was wrong again. 24 became 30, then 41. The 60 days stretched into five months. I kept not writing it, which turned out to be the best editorial decision I never made, because somewhere in there the story stopped being the count.
The count is real, for the record. AIEOS (the framework I introduced a couple of weeks ago) is now 41 repositories: a 15-layer model of the software delivery lifecycle, a multi-agent harness, a browser console, a CLI guide named Sherpa, 13 tool adapters and a control plane that can walk an initiative unattended. Every repo runs under CI. The adapters produce signed Sigstore attestations. The orchestration core sits at 100% line coverage, with 452 tests passing on Windows and Linux both.
But the number worth asking me about is a different one: zero. That's how many times adapter conformance had passed when I audited it on July 1, behind two months of green checkmarks. The gap between those two numbers taught me more than the 41 did.
