What are guardrail metrics?

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$Secondary metrics you commit to monitor to catch bad tradeoffs: latency, error rate, retention, revenue-per-user, complaint rate, security signals.$
$Test can 'win' on the primary metric but must not degrade guardrails beyond a preset threshold.$
$Standard practice: bidirectional CI on each guardrail must not cross the harm threshold.$
$Prevents 'winning' by cannibalizing another team's metric or long-term health.$

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Committed secondary metrics (latency, retention, revenue, errors) that must not degrade beyond threshold — prevents cannibalizing wins
Only primary
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Guardrail metrics: monitored secondary metrics; prevent cannibalizing tradeoffs.

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