Evidence Gates for AI Coding Agents in CI — Recoverable Merge over Mean Time to Green

Short summary

A practical checklist for platform engineers to safely integrate AI coding agents into CI pipelines. Argues that mean time to green is the wrong metric—recoverable merge, evidence packs, and risk-tiered merge authority matter more. Provides a concrete PR template with rollback plans, test-diff scrutiny, and risk tiers (Low/Medium/High) to keep accountability human.

• •Green pipeline ≠ safe change; optimize for recoverable merge not speed
• •Evidence packs (run IDs, file lists, rollback SHAs) should be mandatory in PR templates
• •Risk tiers gate agent autonomy: Low can auto-merge, Medium needs human owner, High stays draft-only

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