{
  "schema": "longtermcapabilities-agentic-production-readiness/v1",
  "version": "1.64.0",
  "releaseId": "lts-1.64.0-upgrade-safe-rewrites-and-privacy-erasure-integrity",
  "generated": "2026-08-03T20:40:00Z",
  "reviewDate": "2026-08-01",
  "path": "/solution-guides/agentic-ai-production-readiness/",
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "named-workflow",
      "stage": "Name the workflow and completion condition",
      "decision": "What exact business workflow is being released, for whom, and what counts as complete?",
      "minimum_evidence": "Named workflow, users or affected parties, intended outcome, prohibited uses, completion condition, and accountable owner.",
      "stop_condition": "The scope remains a broad assistant, transformation program, or undefined set of future use cases."
    },
    {
      "id": "simplest-architecture",
      "stage": "Choose the simplest viable architecture",
      "decision": "Can a deterministic workflow or fixed retrieval pipeline meet the need before an agent is introduced?",
      "minimum_evidence": "Baseline architecture, measured gap, proposed adaptive benefit, complexity cost, and simplification fallback.",
      "stop_condition": "The design adds autonomy, multiple agents, or swarm behavior without a decision-relevant benefit over the simpler baseline."
    },
    {
      "id": "authority",
      "stage": "Define identity, authority, and consequence",
      "decision": "Who is the originating principal, what authority is delegated, and which effects require human approval?",
      "minimum_evidence": "Principal identity, workload identity, delegated scope, audience, resource boundary, amount or consequence limits, expiry, revocation, and human decision roles.",
      "stop_condition": "The model or agent can redefine its own authority, approve a consequential action, or act without an attributable principal."
    },
    {
      "id": "context-data",
      "stage": "Bound context, retrieval, and data",
      "decision": "Which sources and data classes may influence a decision, and how are freshness, tenant, and privacy boundaries enforced?",
      "minimum_evidence": "Source authority, retrieval policy, tenant isolation, sensitive-data handling, retention, provenance, freshness, and unsupported-evidence behavior.",
      "stop_condition": "Untrusted content can silently become instruction, cross-tenant evidence can be retrieved, or the source of a consequential claim cannot be reconstructed."
    },
    {
      "id": "tools-effects",
      "stage": "Contract tools and verify external effects",
      "decision": "Can the system distinguish proposal, authorization, accepted request, completed operation, and verified durable effect?",
      "minimum_evidence": "Tool schema, preconditions, policy check, idempotency, retry rules, timeout semantics, effect verification, compensating action, and reconciliation path.",
      "stop_condition": "A timeout or ambiguous response can trigger blind retry, duplicate effect, or an unverified success claim."
    },
    {
      "id": "state-memory",
      "stage": "Control state and memory",
      "decision": "What state persists, who may read or write it, and how is stale or poisoned state detected and removed?",
      "minimum_evidence": "State model, provenance, isolation, write authority, versioning, expiry, correction, rollback, redaction, and retirement behavior.",
      "stop_condition": "Persistent state cannot be attributed, corrected, expired, isolated, or safely removed after a model, policy, or workflow change."
    },
    {
      "id": "evaluation",
      "stage": "Evaluate the complete trajectory",
      "decision": "Does the system perform acceptably across representative, edge, adverse, authorization, recovery, and cost cases?",
      "minimum_evidence": "Versioned case set, simpler baseline, task outcomes, trajectory and tool traces, critical failure blockers, human calibration, repeated runs, and results by important slice.",
      "stop_condition": "Release depends on a polished demonstration, one aggregate score, or cases that omit the most consequential failures."
    },
    {
      "id": "operations-recovery",
      "stage": "Prove operations, containment, and recovery",
      "decision": "Can operators detect unsafe behavior, stop new effects, reconcile state, restore service, and validate correctness?",
      "minimum_evidence": "Monitoring, budgets, alerts, queue controls, credential revocation, independent pause, incident roles, restoration sequence, state reconciliation, and recovery validation.",
      "stop_condition": "The stop path depends on the same failed runtime, or recovery ends when traffic returns without reconciling durable effects and state."
    },
    {
      "id": "buyer-evidence",
      "stage": "Prepare buyer and assurance evidence",
      "decision": "Can a legitimate reviewer understand the system boundary, authority model, evidence, unresolved risks, and request path?",
      "minimum_evidence": "Public-safe system description, data and dependency boundary, human-authority statement, evidence catalog, review date, limitations, and controlled request route.",
      "stop_condition": "Marketing claims exceed the evidence, confidential implementation detail is published, or a checklist is represented as certification."
    },
    {
      "id": "release-decision",
      "stage": "Record release, conditions, hold, or stop",
      "decision": "What is authorized now, under which conditions, until when, and which material changes reopen the decision?",
      "minimum_evidence": "Decision state, scope, accepted residual risk, conditions, owners, expiry, monitoring, evidence-to-close, rollback trigger, and material-change register.",
      "stop_condition": "No named human accepts the decision, release conditions are not enforceable, or material changes can occur without renewed review."
    }
  ],
  "decisionStates": [
    "research",
    "pilot",
    "conditional-release",
    "release",
    "hold",
    "stop",
    "retire"
  ],
  "boundary": "Public engineering decision aid; no system inspection, certification, readiness score, legal conclusion, or production approval."
}