What counts as a good microproduct

Good microproducts share several observable traits—most of them discoverable directly from Markdown contracts plus live demos:

• Narrow decision surface with observable inputs and outputs documented in /standards/folder-contract#markdown-contract-purposes.
• Transparent evaluation—even qualitative rubrics—in /standards/folder-contract#markdown-contract-purposes.
• Honest acknowledgement of brittle assumptions surfaced in README + AGENTS files.
• Repro instructions that do not rely on unpublished secrets (demo.md).

Signals that should block promotion

Anti-pattern	Why it fails
Dashboards without actions	Humans cannot automate follow-ups
Vague personas	Unable to prioritize roadmap
Implicit model drift	Silent failures undermine trust
Missing agent entrypoints	Blocks hybrid human/agent teams

Treat this page as prose backing the actionable items listed in /AGENTS.md.