130 Release-Roadmap Issues, 818 Agent Runs: A Mid-Iteration Reality Check

We turned one release's roadmap — 130+ umbrella-epic issues — into fully-researched implementation specs using a swarm of three different agent CLIs (Claude, Codex, Gemini): 818 runs, ~155M+ tokens, ~$576, four days. Then, mid-release-cycle, we ran a snapshot to compare the research against reality — with no expectation that anything was "done" yet. Here is the pipeline, the numbers, and the…