For a while I judged these desktop agents by the logo wall, how many of my tools they claimed to plug into. Wrong number to care about.
The one that stuck earned it a different way. I had it run a sprint-review sweep every morning across linear, github and slack, deploy status and open incidents pulled in. When the output was a tidy restatement of what I already tracked all week, it saved me nothing. Felt productive, wasn't. The mornings it earned its place were when it surfaced the stalled PR or the quiet incident that never made it to standup.
connection count is the vanity metric everyone reads off the landing page. the real signal is the ratio of new-to-me in whatever it hands you. if it only reformats what you already knew, more integrations just buys you a longer restatement.
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