{
  "handle": "Metricmirror",
  "gloss": "Review how a success metric changes behaviour and what valuable work it fails to count",
  "mechanism": "When a {{metric}} is used to judge work, it is reviewed on a stated schedule for two things: behaviour that has shifted to raise the measure without serving the goal, and valuable activity the measure does not count. Findings are recorded with the metric.",
  "invariants": [
    "The metric is reviewed on a stated schedule.",
    "Each review records observed gaming and valuable activity the metric misses."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Goodhart drift: work optimises the measure, not the goal.",
    "Mirror blindness: reviews look only at the measure and so find nothing."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Strategy"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "Doubleloop",
      "NormativeJudge#684f"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T21:54:54+02:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Metricmirror#mh:SHA-256:c7c504c58ce43ef3d00812f6045e370a54a168b64289cfd21d08981e5de8c633",
  "sema_ref": "Metricmirror#c7c5",
  "sema_stub": "c7c5",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "metric": "sema:Metric#mh:SHA-256:aa990383741b05e3b798abc7518d9e65c0cc7832b345d4cfed48714ef2501230"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Strategy",
  "used_by": {}
}