Engineering Decision Governor

Engineering Decision Governor lets an AI coding agent act autonomously on proven, in-scope technical defects while preserving the owner's authority over undefined product behavior, residual risk, release decisions, and high-impact production actions.

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What it solves

Coding agents often fail in opposite ways: they ask the owner to decide routine implementation details, or they silently make product and risk decisions they do not own. This skill supplies a precise decision boundary and a repeatable triage workflow.

Every finding is verified and classified as:

• AUTO-FIX: proven, in-scope, deterministic, bounded, and verifiable;
• OWNER-DECISION: multiple legitimate business outcomes remain;
• RECORD-ONLY: real but unrelated legacy debt;
• RELEASE-RISK: unresolved evidence or operational risk affects release confidence;
• DISMISSED: false positive, duplicate, style-only, or unproven.

Core behavior

• Freeze the current task boundary before fixing findings.
• Treat reviewer and analyzer findings as hypotheses, regardless of model strength.
• Trace the real implementation and violated contract or invariant.
• Fix only deterministic in-scope defects without asking routine technical questions.
• Split mixed issues so the objective portion is fixed before escalating ambiguity.
• Verify the final candidate, not an older commit or an agent's confidence.
• Recommend GO or NO-GO for release risk without accepting that risk for the owner.

Relationship to the other governors

• Engineering Decision Governor controls engineering execution authority.
• Project Context Governor checks whether the facts used by the engineering process are current and trustworthy.
• Project State Governor persists verified outcomes and decisions across sessions and branches.

Install

With the Agent Skills CLI:

npx skills add Ghost011118/engineering-decision-governor

Or copy this repository into your agent's skills directory and invoke $engineering-decision-governor.

Quick examples

Use $engineering-decision-governor to verify these review findings, fix the proven in-scope defects, and return only genuine owner decisions and release risks.

Use $engineering-decision-governor to decide whether this failing regression is an auto-fix, an owner decision, or a release risk.

Runtime requirements

The skill is provider-neutral. It works best with an agent that can inspect source code, trace execution paths, run tests, review Git diffs, and obtain an independent review pass for non-trivial changes.

Safety model

The skill does not grant product-owner authority. It does not authorize destructive production actions, schema risk acceptance, business-semantic invention, unrelated cleanup, or release with unresolved evidence.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Security reports should follow SECURITY.md.

License

Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.