Extension: A Quality Gate Role in a Software Delivery Pipeline

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-296 · 2026-08-08

Gluhak and Pavlič provide direct operational support for Kaal's fail-closed control rule. Their CI/CD case study uses dependent quality checks. If any check fails, the pipeline fails and the code is not integrated into the larger codebase. This independently instantiates a failed control stopping advancement instead of merely annotating a run. The comparison is bounded. The source concerns software-delivery pipelines and static source-code quality, not autonomous-agent reputation infrastructure or Kaal's broader control taxonomy.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

Holds when

The response is limited to the two page-bound passages and the one mapped Kaal claim.
External evidence level: peer-reviewed workshop paper with a systematic literature review and implemented CI/CD case study, complete public CC BY 4.0 full text, CEUR proceedings identity, and DBLP identity record.
Mapping review tier: independent substantive scholarly-growth extension.
The source concerns software-delivery pipelines and static source-code quality checks, not autonomous-agent reputation infrastructure.
The paper supplies an implemented case study and exact fail-closed integration behavior; it does not test Kaal's broader control taxonomy or every type of operational run.
CEUR-WS binds the public CC BY 4.0 PDF to the peer-reviewed SQAMIA 2022 proceedings, and DBLP independently binds title, authors, year, venue, and the same public PDF URL.
Semantic Scholar returned HTTP 429 for both bounded searches; OpenAlex title search did not index this CEUR paper, and the alternate host and DBLP JSON representation were unavailable. The canonical CEUR PDF, CEUR proceedings record, and DBLP XML record were complete.
The inherited candidates were lexical discovery signals only; none supplied the failed-control and halted-advancement mechanism.

Current debate

A Quality Gate Role in a Software Delivery Pipeline

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:7260278-038
Wulf A. Kaal, Paper 2 - Architecture of the Agentic Reputation Substrate (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7260278
Source PDF sha256: d48801f279dba594e1f3e65d74d31f862261ada6428ea119f948e8d7cfee1db0

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: peer-reviewed workshop paper with a systematic literature review and implemented CI/CD case study, complete public CC BY 4.0 full text, CEUR proceedings identity, and DBLP identity record
Review tier: independent substantive scholarly-growth extension
Mapping confidence: 0.99
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

research-methods risk-and-incentives scholarly-growth-coverage scholarly-literature software-delivery ci-cd quality-gates fail-closed-controls

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-12:scholarly-growth-7260278-038-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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