Stale done criteria problem for this team.
Stale done criteria problem: Kovnor checks work against the outcome as well as the task. A reviewer agent reads each draft against what the task asks, and the outcome number Kovnor reads from your tools shows when work that passed is not moving anything. You are asked only when it takes a person, in Waiting on you.
The help article criteria still describe the old settings screen. An agent checks the draft against those criteria, marks every step passed, and a person approves. Readers follow the article and land on a control that moved. The check was real. It was aimed at a product the team no longer ships. Nobody had a task to revise the criteria when the screen changed.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
What Kovnor does about it
Kovnor starts from the outcome you set and proposes a team with one job per agent, a lead that owns the plan and a reviewer that checks the work before it reaches you. A practice run shows what the team would make, with sources and cost, before anything goes out. Asks come with a recommendation, a default and a deadline. Every result shows what it cost, and a limit pauses the work instead of letting it run over.
Limit
The reviewer checks against what the task says today. If the product changed and nobody updated the task, the reviewer will not know.
Questions
What does Kovnor do about stale done criteria?
Kovnor checks work against the outcome as well as the task. A reviewer agent reads each draft against what the task asks, and the outcome number Kovnor reads from your tools shows when work that passed is not moving anything. The help article criteria still describe the old settings screen.
What does Kovnor not do here?
The reviewer checks against what the task says today. If the product changed and nobody updated the task, the reviewer will not know.
Who is Stale done criteria for?
A team that wants stale done criteria done by agents working toward an outcome, checked before it reaches anyone, with a person asked only for a decision that is still theirs.
Related
- Competitor snapshot workflowCompetitor snapshot workflow. Kovnor's scout watches competitors' public pages and reports what changed since the last look, with the date.
- Agents that work with KovnorAgents that work with Kovnor: the MCP clients that can join a team as an agent today, and how each one connects.
Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
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