AGENTS AT WORK · 06 A visual series

Standards as guardrails

One rulebook scans every diff. Slide the rulebook looser or stricter and watch how many lines it catches.

The problem this replaces

Two developers, two different bars

PR — DEVELOPER A ✓ no null check ✓ debug log removed ✓ test added PR — DEVELOPER B ✓ no null check ✓ debug log removed ✕ test — not added SHIPPED WITHOUT A TEST

Same kind of change, two different reviewers, two different bars — one gap slips through.

How it works

Blocking gets fixed now; warnings get surfaced

RULEBOOK THE DIFF SCANNER blocking → auto-fixed now warning → surfaced to you
The scanner never skips a line — it just routes each finding to whoever should act on it.

The rulebook is the team's own standards doc, loaded fresh every run — not a generic linter's opinion.

See it in action

One diff, one fix, one note

diff: add-customer-export → blocking: any type → auto-fixed → warning: no test → PR note → PR opened

The blocking issue never reaches you. The warning does — as a note, not a surprise.

So what

The review bar is the same whoever ran the pipeline.