Job boundary
One workflow, one owner, one definition of done, and no hidden decisions for the model to infer.
Agent readiness
Decide whether an agent workflow is ready before it runs.
A useful agent pattern is not proved by one impressive demo. It is ready when the job is bounded, tools are narrow, evidence is visible, review gates are explicit, and the team knows how to stop or recover.
This hub is not a replacement for local policy, security, architecture, legal, or management review. The adopting organization owns final decisions about approved tools, data handling, access, release, and escalation.
Readiness gates
Check the operating envelope before the model.
These gates keep agent work inspectable. If one is missing, the safer answer is usually a draft, checklist, or human-reviewed workflow.
Tool boundary
Only the tools required for the job, with read, write, and external-effect permissions separated.
Data boundary
Approved inputs are named up front, restricted material stays out, and source references remain visible.
Evidence boundary
Completion requires artifacts, tests, logs, source trail, or reviewer notes outside the model's claim.
Review boundary
A person reviews consequential output before publish, send, merge, deploy, or system-of-record change.
Recovery boundary
The workflow has stop rules, retry limits, rollback triggers, and a way to resume from verified state.
Delivery example
A bounded builder lane is a better first move than an agent department.
For code-adjacent work, the first useful pattern is a narrow worker lane that prepares evidence for review. It does not own the business decision, merge button, production deploy, or permission expansion.
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Issue intake
Work packet names the request, source files, non-goals, allowed tools, owner, and acceptance criteria.
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Worker lane
One bounded builder lane drafts the change on a branch and cannot publish, merge, or broaden scope.
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Evaluation fixture
Representative cases, blocked cases, and known regressions define expected behavior before generation.
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Build evidence
Format, lint, focused tests, build, and diff checks run before the work is called ready.
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Reviewer packet
The reviewer sees changed files, source assumptions, verification output, residual risk, and stop conditions.
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Rollback trigger
A release note names what would trigger revert, pause, escalation, or a smaller follow-up slice.
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Regression update
Any serious miss becomes a fixture, checklist update, or operating-standard change before the next run.
Material map
Use the existing curriculum in readiness order.
The route below pulls together the agent, testing, rollout, vendor, and handoff material that already exists in the catalog.
Start with the operating model
Design failure and recovery before release
Add rollout, vendor, and handoff gates
Do not automate yet
Stop when the workflow cannot prove itself.
- The job cannot be explained as one bounded workflow.
- The workflow needs broad write access before the first review cycle.
- The data boundary is unclear or includes sensitive material by default.
- Completion depends on the model saying it is done.
- No reviewer owns the release, rollback, or escalation decision.
- A failed run would erase evidence or leave no verified checkpoint.
Next action
Start with the guide and the test plan.
Use the guide to write the boundary, then use the feature test plan to define evidence and stop behavior before the workflow touches real systems.