A metric that does not change a decision leaves the report. The 18 AI search KPIs organized by the five layers of the Cognitive Architecture of SEO, with operational definition, linked decision and the ones I would cut.

Prompt tracking without a defined prompt set produces a report and zero decisions. Entry criteria, three-tag classification and the four things I measure.

Being cited by a generative system depends on three chained conditions: being retrieved, being attributed and being corroborated. The diagnostic and the source block.