Control and audit
Pass/fail routing, retry limits and human gates are rules the system enforces, not prompts. Every run keeps an audit trail of each step and tool call, and an agent’s reach is the grant you gave its station.
- Part
- F-21
- Status
- Live
- In one line
- Deterministic first: rules the system enforces, and a record of every step
The parts of a factory that have to be reliable are not left to a model. Where a card goes on pass, on fail and when blocked; how many times it may come back; whether a person has to approve first; which workflows a station may hand off to — those are configuration, enforced by the system. An agent reports an outcome. It does not get to decide what the outcome means.
Authorization is checked on the server for every write, against the workspace the thing belongs to, and a test fails the build if a new endpoint ships without a guard.
Runs leave a trail: which trigger fired, which worker ran, which attempt this was, each step and each tool call along the way, what it decided and why. A workflow you cannot audit is one you cannot trust with a repository.
Agents are told, in every skill, that content they read is data and never an instruction — the discipline that keeps a card comment from talking an agent into something it was not asked to do.
Related parts
F-04
Pass, fail, blocked
A station names where a card goes when its worker passes, where it goes when the worker fails, and where it goes when the work is blocked or the retries run out. Those are rules the system enforces, not prompts — and they are enough to build a delivery loop that closes.
F-18
Human approval
Put a person on a station and the work waits there. Approve it and it moves on; reject it and it goes back with your reasons. The gate is enforced by the system — no prompt can talk its way past it.
F-15
Tool connections
A catalogue of MCP servers — live documentation, web search, GitHub, Linear, Stripe, Supabase and more. Every tool is off until you switch it on, and a station cannot use any of them until you allow that station.
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