Quality Gate Bypass

Detects when agents skip mandatory quality checks, ignore quality thresholds, or proceed despite failing checks.

Examples

• Agent skips required code linting step and proceeds to deployment
• Quality score of 45% is below the 80% threshold, but agent proceeds anyway
• Mandatory peer review process omitted from the workflow
• Agent uses --no-verify or --force flags to bypass checks

Detection methods

Validation Audit

Checks for presence of required validation steps

Threshold Monitoring

Verifies quality scores meet minimum thresholds

Review Process Check

Ensures mandatory review processes are followed

Bypass Flag Detection

Catches --no-verify, --skip-*, --force patterns

Subtypes

• skipped validation
• ignored threshold
• bypassed review
• forced completion