Software development guide outlines strict criteria for promoting AI agent code branches

A software development article details strict requirements for promoting AI agent code branches to protected environments. The process requires four key pieces of evidence before allowing promotion: a clean workspace record, a security-reviewed diff, human approval for lockfile changes, and an existing rollback point. The guidelines emphasize that branches should be treated as untrusted input until all criteria are met. The article warns that automated passing tests alone do not guarantee branch integrity, particularly when work originates on shared or borrowed machines. This framework aims to prevent security gaps and deployment of unreviewed code changes.