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Why

The "Compared with the previous release" section of the public report listed every metric two releases shared, under raw names (cold_ci95_upper_ms, warm_mean_ms, assets_missing). Readers could not tell what the numbers were for, and the numbers themselves misled: v0.28.1 was shown as about 70% slower than v0.28.0 on all seven timing statistics.

That slowdown is not real. The two released bomly-lite binaries, run side by side on one machine against the same input, both take 26 to 27 ms. The timed scan is about 30 ms long, and the difference between two CI machines is larger than that.

What changes

  • A check declares the metrics worth comparing under measurements in the catalog: metric, a plain-language label and description, and a direction (lower, higher, neutral). The catalog validates them.
  • trends.metrics in the report lists only declared measurements and carries their label and description (two optional fields, so the report stays bomly.assurance-report/v1).
  • The declared direction replaces the guess from the metric name's suffix.
  • A measurement that did not move is still listed, so the table has the same rows every release.

Declared measurements: end-to-end tests run, file readers stress-tested, SBOM files checked by official tools, files in the release, memory used by a small scan.

Scan timings are deliberately not declared. They stay in the check's own results. Comparing them needs a workload long enough to rise above runner noise first; dev-docs/RELEASE_ASSURANCE.md records this.

Companion change

bomly-dev/bomly-landing-page shows the description beside each label and hides rows that have none. Either can merge first: the page ignores unexplained rows, and older pages ignore the new fields.

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make test and make lint pass locally. Goldens refreshed with go test ./internal/assurance/ -update; only the mixed-failure pair changed.

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  • New Features
    • Assurance reports can compare declared measurements across releases, showing their labels, descriptions, values, and whether higher or lower results are preferred.
    • Reports include measurements when both releases have a value, even if that value is unchanged.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on choosing release-relevant measurements and interpreting comparisons. Noisy scan timings are excluded, and comparisons are skipped when either report lacks a value.

…n explanation

The report compared every metric two releases shared. On the public page
that put seven statistics of one 30 ms scan under names like
cold_ci95_upper_ms, and showed v0.28.1 as 70% slower than v0.28.0. The two
released binaries measure the same (26 to 27 ms) side by side on one
machine: the difference was the CI runner.

A check now declares the metrics worth comparing under `measurements` in
the catalog, each with a label, a plain-language description the page shows
beside the number, and a direction. The declared direction replaces the
guess from the metric name's suffix. A measurement that did not move is
still listed, so the table has the same rows every release.

Declared: end-to-end tests run, file readers stress-tested, SBOM files
checked by official tools, files in the release, and memory used by a small
scan. Scan timings are not declared until the timed workload is long enough
to rise above runner noise.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
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Assurance catalogs can declare metrics for release-to-release comparisons. Trend generation uses those declarations and report values, then Markdown rendering displays metrics with nonzero deltas.

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Release Assurance Metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Declare and validate measurements
internal/assurance/catalog.go, internal/assurance/catalog_test.go, docs/assurance/catalog.json
Checks can declare measurements with a metric name, label, description, and direction. Catalog validation rejects invalid measurement entries. Five checks declare measurements.
Build catalog-scoped trends
internal/assurance/report.go, internal/assurance/trends.go, internal/assurance/aggregate.go
BuildReport passes the catalog to buildTrends. Trends include declared metrics present in both reports, with labels, descriptions, and directions from the catalog.
Render and document trends
internal/assurance/render_markdown.go, internal/assurance/assurance_test.go, dev-docs/RELEASE_ASSURANCE.md, AGENTS.md
Markdown rendering displays metrics with nonzero deltas, using the label or metric name. Tests check declared metric output. Documentation describes declaration and missing-metric rules.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BuildReport
  participant buildTrends
  participant MetricTrend
  BuildReport->>buildTrends: Pass catalog, previous report, and current report
  buildTrends->>MetricTrend: Emit declared metric values and catalog metadata
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Review comments at @internal/assurance/render_markdown.go:
- Line 177: Update the trend formatting in the Markdown rendering path to show
the absolute change when metric.Previous is zero, rather than the misleading
DeltaPct percentage; preserve percentage formatting for nonzero previous values.
Use the values computed by buildTrends to display the absolute delta.

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Comment thread internal/assurance/render_markdown.go
…o shows its size

Two gaps in the markdown comparison, both from keeping unchanged
measurements in the report:

- When no status changed and no measurement moved, the heading was written
  with nothing under it.
- A measurement rising from zero printed (+0.0%), because a percentage of
  zero is left unset. It now prints the absolute change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
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