15 / Verify, protect, and record

Keep Performance, Security, Privacy, and Data Boundaries in Scope

A design or feature enhancement is incomplete if it makes the product slower, exposes data, weakens authorization, increases unnecessary client work, or creates a fragile dependency.

Failure mode

The agent acts from stale memory, loads unrelated guidance, assumes a source exists, silently resolves contradictory instructions, applies a reference brand literally, or declares completion from one narrow check.

Applied correction

Review only the boundaries touched by the change, but do not treat them as somebody else’s problem.

Field test

Has the agent checked the system qualities its change could affect? Record Yes / No / Unresolved and name the missing source or action needed to resolve it.

Ask your agent

Before completion, review the change’s effect on performance, data flow, authori