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The New SDLC With Vibe Coding

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Description

Deterministic gates for the agentic-engineering SDLC. Spec, tests, evals, review, handoff: pass or fail with evidence, selected by risk tier, LLM-agnostic. From Google's 'New SDLC With Vibe Coding' paper.

Installation

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open the source below and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

README

agentic-gates

Deterministic gates for the agentic-engineering SDLC.
Spec, tests, evals, review, handoff. Pass or fail, with evidence. Any coding agent. No model in the loop.

gates python 3.11+ stdlib only LLM agnostic MIT

Three rows: vibe coding, structured AI-assisted coding, agentic engineering. The model box is identical in all three; only the deterministic scaffolding differs.

The ochre box is the same in every row: same model, same non-determinism. Everything that changes is teal, and all of it is deterministic. **agentic-gates is the teal.** It makes the bottom row enforceable in any repository, for any agent, in about five minutes.

  PASS  G0  spec: exists, complete, tier matches branch
  PASS  G1  context: rule file present, bounded, versioned
  PASS  G2  tests: touched alongside source, and passing
  N/A   G3  evals: AI surface scored against a rubric
  PASS  G4  review: no secrets, no hallucinated dependencies
  FAIL  G5  handoff: agent run is recorded
         - handoffs/HANDOFF-0012.md: field 'Reviewer' missing or placeholder

GATE FAILURE: the change is not ready

A gate says pass or fail and shows why. It never says "consider".

Why

Google's May 2026 paper *The New SDLC With Vibe Coding* argues that what separates a throwaway