How many glyphs does the work take?

From a focused fix to a project audit: explore engineering examples and glyph usage. This page includes a measurement from the team’s work and estimates based on Sol, Terra and Luna runs.

Estimates for everyday tasks

These examples use benchmark tasks and recorded glyph usage from Sol, Terra and Luna. They provide a reference for similar, bounded work with a verifiable outcome, rather than a fixed-price promise.

Add safe transfers

A ledger service needs a new operation: validate amounts, apply transfers atomically and handle retries and simultaneous requests correctly.

Expected result

A contract-compliant implementation, preserved balances and regression tests for failures and replay.

  • GPT-5.6 SolRequirements met
    16 glyphs
  • GPT-5.6 TerraRequirements met
    19 glyphs
  • GPT-5.6 LunaRequirements met
    3 glyphs

Fix authorization cache errors

The service sometimes uses stale permissions after access is revoked. Check the cache, concurrent requests, cancellation and user isolation.

Expected result

Regression tests that detect the faults and a fix for the cache behavior.

  • GPT-5.6 SolRequirements met
    18 glyphs
  • GPT-5.6 TerraSome requirements unmet
    15 glyphs
  • GPT-5.6 LunaRequirements met
    3 glyphs

Migrate data without losing state

A new snapshot format must read older data, preserve operation history and handle repeated migration safely.

Expected result

A compatible migration with metadata preservation and tests for conflicts, retries and failures.

  • GPT-5.6 SolRequirements met
    29 glyphs
  • GPT-5.6 TerraRequirements met
    19 glyphs
  • GPT-5.6 LunaRequirements met
    3 glyphs

Plan recovery after an incident

Event processing has stopped. Use incident evidence and the operations runbook to determine a safe recovery sequence.

Expected result

An executable recovery plan validated by simulation, without skipped events or duplicate effects.

  • GPT-5.6 SolRequirements met
    7 glyphs
  • GPT-5.6 TerraRequirements met
    7 glyphs
  • GPT-5.6 LunaRequirements met
    2 glyphs

Usage comes from glyphs recorded by the engine during execution, rounded up to whole glyphs. Unsuccessful work is also shown and marked. These estimates describe controlled examples: your project size, available context, mode and follow-up fixes affect the total. Check glyph history for actual account charges.

An example from our team's work

Security

≈ 2500files in the project
≈ 130glyphs for the audit

Our team observed an audit of a project with roughly 2500 files using about 130 glyphs. Usage depends on context, mode and actions. Project size does not imply every file was reviewed; fixes and repeat checks are separate tasks.

Task and context

A security audit of a project containing about 2500 files used approximately 130 glyphs, as observed by the team. This describes a particular run, rather than a fixed price for auditing any project.

Reading the example

Project size describes the context and does not mean every file was inspected. Findings require review and prioritization. Fixes and follow-up verification are subsequent tasks with separate usage.

Assess your own task

Start with a defined scope: a module, bug or screen. Compare the delivered result with the usage recorded in glyph history. Context size, mode, tools and duration all affect consumption.

Start with your team's project

Download Desktop, connect your project and start with a task whose result you can verify.