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Capstone: run a human-gated release-intelligence workflow

Produce a redacted acceptance pack for a multi-role release bulletin, hold publication for human approval, and improve the workflow from observed signals.

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Action boundary

Before you act

Expected result
A complete acceptance pack proves role separation, bounded execution, observable terminal states, review results, human-held publication, and one measured improvement.
Failure mode
The capstone is presented as a successful automation demo without source receipts, failure evidence, a review decision, or a human-held publication boundary.
Rollback
Hold the draft, disable any scheduled job, preserve redacted artifacts and run history, revoke unnecessary access, and rerun only after the postmortem control change is approved.

Capstone: Release intelligence, with a human at the boundary

Build a sandbox workflow that prepares—but does not publish—a weekly bulletin from an approved list of public primary sources. The workflow may use distinct researcher, verifier, and editor roles. The publication owner must be a human and no automation role may hold a production publishing credential.

Required acceptance pack

  1. Dependency graph and role/authority matrix.
  2. Source ledger with at least three primary URLs, retrieval times, and source fingerprints.
  3. Claim-review record showing at least one accepted and one rejected or held claim.
  4. Draft bulletin containing only accepted claims and links.
  5. Task control cards with cost/time ceilings and stop conditions.
  6. Durable-job definition or a clearly labelled manual-run substitute, including idempotency key and disable path.
  7. Operations snapshot: queue depth, oldest task age, retries by class, budget consumed, review backlog, and last terminal run status.
  8. Human publication decision marked hold, approve for a separate release action, or request changes. The capstone itself never publishes.

Failure tabletop

Inject one controlled failure: make a source unavailable, introduce a duplicate input key, or simulate a Gateway timeout after a draft appears. Show the classification, evidence inspected before retry, decision owner, and final state. “Retried and it worked” without this record does not pass.

Rubric

Criterion Weight Pass signal
Role clarity and artifacts 25% Every node has an accountable role, inspectable handoff, and limited authority.
Gates and stop conditions 30% Budget, deadline, missing-evidence, and publication controls are explicit and exercised.
Observability 25% Signals, run history, failure classification, and escalation owner support a real decision.
Recoverability 20% The tabletop preserves evidence, prevents duplicate effect, and documents a safe resume or hold.

Blameless postmortem

Write five short sections: what was expected; what happened; evidence and timeline; contributing conditions; and one control change with an owner and due date. Do not blame a role or model for a system condition. The best postmortem changes the graph, policy, threshold, or test so the next run is easier to inspect.

Final check

A pass means the workflow is accountable, bounded, and reviewable. It does not certify unattended publication or general production safety.

Check your understanding

Knowledge check · operations

Pass mark 100% · Attempt 1 of 3 · Not passed

A durable job completes and produces a polished bulletin, but one claim has no approved receipt. What is the terminal decision?
Why this matters

Execution success and human publication approval are separate gates.

Evidence last verified 2026-07-30

Source provenanceVerification and sources

Review receipt rr_multi_agent_capstone_postmortem

Outcome
approved
Method
source-review
Reviewer
scout-independent-review
Reviewed

Evidence

Limitations

  • No production delivery, channel, or external side effect was exercised.

Open the public evidence snapshot

Lesson checkpoint

Ready to move on?

Mark this lesson complete when you can apply its outcome without relying on the examples above.