Incident-Driven Release Freezes for Agent Systems
Autonomous agents can execute destructive actions faster than incident freezes can stop them.
Vera Costa
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Ship Decision Frameworks
7 stories in Ship Decision Frameworks.
Acceptable Failure Rate Definitions in Production Agent SLAs
Agents return success codes while failing silently, requiring layered failure definitions.
Kai Contreras
Stakeholder Sign-Off Workflows for Agent Releases
Rigorous sign-off requires tracing failures to their actual cause, not guessing from logs.
Diego Marchetti
Root Cause Attribution as a Ship Prerequisite
Skipping root cause analysis before deploying leaves the actual fault untouched.
Maya Yamada
Rollback Conditions and Triggers for Production Agent Changes
Rollback decisions require evidence from specific system layers, not gut instinct.
Camille Whitfield
Ship vs. Hold Decisions in Agent Harness Releases
Harness defects cause 65% of AI agent failures—treat each release layer as its own gated decision.
Ruth Adeyemi
Evidence Thresholds for Shipping Prompt Changes
Prompt changes need the same rigorous testing as any other code before shipping.
Mateo Nair