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Use risk-based development workflow gates
On 07OCT2026, JB approved replacing routine plan-approval pauses and repeated full verification with risk-based automation. Clear work proceeds from a short recorded plan; unresolved product/design choices and meaningful risk retain human gates. This supersedes the categorical plan approval, migration approval, commit-per-gate, two-reviewer, and repeat-full-suite policies in ADR 0006 and its implementation plan.
A standing repository policy may authorize schema changes and reset/reseed for named, verified disposable environments. Pre-production alone grants no authority; valuable/shared data, production access, external compatibility, and uncertain targets remain protected. Prefer direct changes over speculative compatibility or rollback machinery when the actual preservation contract permits rebuilding.
Use focused checks while developing, one independent read-only reviewer covering standards and specification, targeted follow-up on bounded fixes, and one full required suite after remediation. Reuse evidence only while its inputs remain applicable; failures and broader changes still require appropriate reruns. Keep tests complete for meaningful behavior and credible failures rather than exhaustive permutations at every layer. Stricter repository/CI/hook requirements remain binding until explicitly revised.
Preserve worktrees, scoped authorization, non-trivial UI direction approval, real interface validation, mutator exclusion, pinned review evidence, recoverable records, and safe local integration. Batch record updates into meaningful commits rather than requiring initial, per-gate, and closure commits. Keep the existing checkpoint heading contract and archived engines; add no replacement extension or hook runtime changes.
The prior twelve-scenario and three-pilot validation obligation remains open in todos, with expected decisions interpreted under this superseding policy. Focused policy walkthroughs for this revision are not claims that those execution scenarios or pilots passed.