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Gate an Agent-Generated Dependency Update Before Merge
Require a narrow diff, reproducible lockfile, clean install, declared tests, dependency review, and human decision before merging agent-generated updates.
Updated 2026-08-11
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A Bounded Checkpoint-and-Discard Loop for Coding Agents
Keep coding-agent changes inspectable by starting clean, setting a diff budget, testing one outcome, and discarding failed attempts.
Updated 2026-07-31
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Gate an Agent-Generated Authorization Change Before Merge
Require an exact diff, server-side deny-path test, reviewer, recovery owner, and release boundary before merging an authorization change.
Updated 2026-08-17
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Gate an Agent-Generated CI Workflow Change Before Merge
Bind CI workflow review to the exact commit, inspect privilege, trigger, and action references, and retain a human merge decision.
Updated 2026-08-21
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Gate an Agent-Generated Database Migration Before Deployment
Require engine, target, compatibility, bounded exercise, recovery owner, and human scheduling before an agent-generated database migration reaches production.
Updated 2026-08-12
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Gate an Agent-Generated Feature-Flag Change Before Merge
Review the exact revision, flag default, context, fallback, and disable path before an agent-generated feature-flag change reaches an owned release.
Updated 2026-08-24
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Gate an Agent-Generated Missed-Appointment Rule Change
Bind a scheduling-rule change to attendance input, policy, capacity effect, duplicate-event handling, reviewer, rollback, and a post-rollback check.
Updated 2026-08-28
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Gate an Agent-Generated Payment-Webhook Change Before Merge
Require revision identity, event scope, verification expectation, duplicate-event result, reviewer, and rollback evidence before merge.
Updated 2026-08-27
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Gate an Agent-Generated Reopen-Workflow Change Before Merge
Review an agent-generated reopen transition against its accepted baseline, incoming request, authority, disposition, rollback, and recovery evidence.
Updated 2026-08-29
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Gate Agent Mutation Identity Before Merge
Review an agent-generated mutation-identity change against same-input retry and different-input conflict evidence, rollback, and recovery.
Updated 2026-08-31
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Gate an Agent-Generated Retry-Policy Change Before Merge
Require revision identity, a bounded retry policy, terminal-state observation, and rollback ownership before merging an agent-generated retry change.
Updated 2026-08-25
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Gate an Agent Status-Reconciliation Change Before Merge
Use a bounded change receipt to make conflicting statuses, evidence rules, freshness, hold behavior, review, rollback, and recovery check visible before merge.
Updated 2026-09-01
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Gate an Agent-Generated Time-Zone Change Before Merge
Require revision identity, a named scheduling rule and zone, a boundary fixture, expected observations, human review, and rollback ownership before merge.
Updated 2026-08-26
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Gate an AI-Generated Terraform Change Before Production
Save and inspect a Terraform plan, reject destructive or unknown changes, bind approval to its digest, and apply only the approved plan.
Updated 2026-08-01
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A Human-Owns-This-Diff Gate for Agent-Written Pull Requests
Require a human owner, bounded diff, risk statement, reproducible checks, recovery plan, and release evidence before merging agent-written code.
Updated 2026-07-31
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A Production Workflow for a Claude-Generated Internal App
Treat a Claude-generated change as a proposal, then gate its exact diff, independent tests, immutable artifact, promotion, verification, and rollback.
Updated 2026-08-09
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Prove Which Version of an Agent-Generated Service Is Running
Bind an immutable artifact, deployment receipt, and live version endpoint so a team can prove which generated service revision is running.
Updated 2026-08-09
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Roll Back an AI-Generated App Without Losing Data
Separate code rollback from data recovery, test compatibility with synthetic records, and verify recovered state before resuming an internal app.
Updated 2026-08-04
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Separate Draft and Live Releases for Internal Apps
Separate draft and live state with explicit approval, immutable promotion receipts, failure signals, and rollback that preserves the known live revision.
Updated 2026-08-04
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A Local Release Gate for a Codex-Generated Internal App
Reproduce a local release-state model for bounded diffs, tests, previews, failed promotion, artifact identity, running identity, and recovery.
Updated 2026-08-09
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Test an Agent-Generated API Integration Beyond Type Checking
Validate request shape, authentication, runtime responses, retries, idempotency, errors, and contract drift for agent-generated API code.
Updated 2026-07-31
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How to Test an Agent-Generated Internal App
Test an agent-generated internal app with negative access cases, integration failures, preview checks, and rollback evidence before coworkers use it.
Updated 2026-08-04