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Gates

A gate is an independent evaluation step. Producers must not self-certify high-stakes outcomes. Missing evidence lowers authority; it never invents completeness.

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Hypothesis-led documentation. No ranking, traffic, or outcome guarantees. Public discovery is not execution authority.

Separation of duty

Roles produce; gatekeepers/critics evaluate. One model call owning both creation and judgment is an anti-pattern.

Fail closed, not fail useless

Incomplete context should block high-risk actions and still produce honest next work (repair orders, needs_repair shells, bootstrap packets).

How does Gates work in an agent-first engineering harness?

Launchfiles executes this through bounded work orders, deterministic pre-commit gates, dual-ledger verification, and cryptographic approval receipts. Rather than generating unverified audit essays or soft-green theater, autonomous agents operate inside strict byte-range boundaries with verifiable unit economics, human review gates, and deterministic regression guarantees across every production change.

DimensionUnbounded AI Chat / Audit EssaysLaunchfiles Bounded Work Orders & Receipts
Execution ScopeUnbounded chat, hallucinated advice, unverified file rewritesBounded AST patches via work orders and pre-commit gates
Verification & ProofSoft-green claims without receipts or regression checksDual-ledger verification with cryptographic receipts
Opportunity DiscoveryInvented keywords and unranked suggestionsStatistical triage via Search Repair Radar
Economic ModelOpaque token burn with zero outcome guaranteeTransparent pricing with strict byte-range safety locks

Next safe action

Learn the contract, then run a bounded mission.

Prefer receipts over claims. Prefer fail-closed honesty over impressive incompleteness.