Kept as a share of made
Commitments kept, divided by commitments made. The first number any group should know about itself.
It is one fraction, written as a fraction or a percentage: nine of twelve, or three-quarters. It is computed at the turning from the rows of The Circle's Scorecard and sent up on line 6 of The Season Sheet, where it means the same thing in every language.
It is load-bearing because it is the one measure of whether a body can be built on. Size does not tell you that. Enthusiasm does not tell you that. A table that says four things a week and does three of them is a table other tables can plan around; a table that says twenty and does six is not, however busy it looks. Groups that run this way are observed to move from about half their plans done to eight or nine in ten within a few seasons — the number improves not by trying harder but by making fewer, better-made promises and clearing what blocks them first.
How it is used, and how it is not. Count only what was said aloud to someone who depended on it; a Commitment is never inferred from silence. Count a keep only with a witness. Read a falling share as a question about the set-up — too much promised, constraints not cleared, The look-ahead not rolled — rather than as a verdict on a person; that is what Zero Blame Environment means in practice. Never rank Cells by it: it exists so that a body of ten thousand can know itself, plan, and send help where it is asked for. And never let it become the aim, because a table can score perfectly by promising nothing.
Also called: Percent Promises Kept · PPK Stands on: Commitment · The Record · The Circle's Scorecard · Networks of Commitments Opens onto: The Score · The Season Sheet · The look-ahead · The gap · Minimum standards of interoperability In play: table · Home Sources: The LIØNSBERG Operating System §12 (draft) · The Circle's Scorecard, "How to count" (current best understanding) · Pattern Language, §Networks Of Commitments (draft) · lionsberg.wiki: The Circle's Scorecard Open: The "about half to eight or nine in ten" figure is stated in the Operating System without a cited study; it is carried here as the canon's claim, not as a verified measurement. · No page says whether commitments made between Cells are counted on both Cells' cards.