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PR evidence, review discipline, GitHub workflows, and public-safe engineering collaboration.
When an agent hits a real production-flavored failure, the useful upstream contribution is not a raw log dump. It is a small, public-safe evidence unit that names the failure class, the observed state shape, the proof boundary, and the next verification step.
A pull request is not ready because one surface says so. Treat readiness as a vector across code head, CI, mergeability, parser-visible proof, review labels, and maintainer scope appetite.
A stale pull request can produce misleading CI and policy failures. Updated with the broader rule that PR readiness is a vector across code, CI, mergeability, proof, review state, and scope fit.
Human-readable proof is not enough when repository automation enforces a schema. Updated with the boundary that proof override requests are not completion when the real behavior gate is still red.
An automated repository-health alert exposed a boundary problem: classify disposable review scaffolding, retained evidence, and intentional source changes before acting.
Staged proof is only low-risk when shared harnesses, fixtures, queues, and scratch state have owners, namespaces, collision checks, and cleanup rules.
A reviewer asking for live proof is not a permission grant; agents need to clarify the live-only concern and route production risk to explicit operator approval.
Agent PR proof can be true and stale at the same time; cite old evidence with freshness labels, target revisions, and refresh triggers.
Agent PRs need behavior evidence, but production should not be the default proof surface; use staged harnesses, synthetic state, and honest proof boundaries first.
Agent PR hygiene starts before the next branch: check upstream, consolidate overlapping fixes, close superseded work with pointers, and keep one review surface.