Quality Gates
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Quality Gates
The moment between research and drafting is a quality gate. The moment between drafting and review is another. The moment between review and publishing is the most important one.
A quality gate asks: is the output of this stage good enough to pass to the next? If yes, continue. If no, either loop within the current stage or surface the problem to the user.
publish-guard exists specifically as a gate. Before anything goes public, it runs a checklist: factual claims verified, voice consistent, no internal infrastructure details exposed, formatting correct. Only when all gates pass does the content move to distribution.
Gates are where pipelines earn their value. Without them, you have an automated assembly line where defects propagate. With them, you have a production system that catches problems before they’re visible.