Inspection module with a green indicator and a broken internal conductor

Why Quality Gates Need Tests Too

How bugs in commitlint and a shell check produced false success, and which regression tests now protect the checks themselves.

September 9, 2026
A green flow passes through a transparent verification frame while a coral flow stops before it

Prompts Define the Work, Checks Define Done

Why the definition of done should move from prompts into a verifiable contract, with an independent review of the agent’s result.

August 17, 2026
A coral part of an assembled module is stopped by a pre-established inspection gate

Why Verification Should Be Defined Before Implementation

Why acceptance criteria and verification methods should be defined before implementation, so that the meaning of done is not adjusted to fit the resulting solution.

August 10, 2026
One tiny final segment changes the comparison result of nearly identical files

No newline at end of file: how one byte changes a Git diff

How a final newline differs from a blank line and why one byte affects git diff and git blame.

July 12, 2026