Consultation: AI metrics
08 December 2025As many of you know, our Advisory Committee has been building some best practice guidance for generative and agentic AI usage metrics. Today we’re sharing the results of that work with you.
The challenge
We developed Release 5.1 of the Code of Practice before to the public availability of generative and agentic artificial intelligence. In this consultation we have built on the patterns in the Code to create mechanisms for reporting on this new type of usage. The new guidelines mostly apply to AI tools on publisher platforms. Third-party and off-site tools like ChatGPT, Consensus or Perplexity may also find the guidelines useful, particularly in conjunction with our existing Syndicated Usage best practice.
Have your say
We want to make sure that the new guidelines work for as many people as possible, so we really want to hear from you. Whether you are a technology provider, a publisher, a librarian or a consortium manager, please send us your feedback!
COUNTER members are also eligible to sign up for the series of webinars we’ll be running in January on all three of our best practice consultations – this one, one on pathways to compliance for small, COUNTER non-compliant publishers, and on reporting usage where a user has multiple institutional identities.
The consultation will be open until 09.00 GMT on Monday 9 February 2026.