THE DOCTRINE

Acceptance Gates

A recipe should not move into implementation until each gate is passed or explicitly escalated. These gates convert plausible AI output into accountable engineering.

The 13 Acceptance Gates

Each gate is a copy-paste validation prompt that returns PASS / FAIL / INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE for a candidate recipe. Click View full prompt to read it, or run the master prompt to validate all 13 in the best sequence.

VALIDATION STAGE

Before any gate runs, validate that you have the empirical data the 13 gates need. Run Ready-Set-Go first — and if it returns NO-GO, the built-in troubleshooter (the remediation prompt) turns each gap into countermeasures and assignable tasks so you can acquire what's missing and re-run until GO.

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PRE-FLIGHT · RUN THIS FIRST

Ready-Set-Go

Run this first. Confirms every input the 13 gates need has been acquired and is resolvable, returning GO / NO-GO with per-gap troubleshooting detail. The master prompt will not start until this returns GO.

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Safety

HAZOP, LOPA, and SIL requirements are explicit where safety risk exists.

2

Cybersecurity

IEC 62443 SL-2 is preserved or exceeded, with mapped controls.

3

Offline Operation

Every critical function survives a complete plant network outage.

4

Cloud Dependency

Cloud services are optional, delayed, or explicitly approved.

5

Complexity

Kubernetes, microservices, and distributed systems are justified or removed.

6

Identity

Authentication works under outage conditions (self-hosted OIDC or equivalent).

7

Encryption

mTLS or equivalent protection is specified where appropriate.

8

Segmentation

OT and IT networks are separated with documented trust boundaries.

9

Protocols

Industrial protocols match actual equipment and maintenance skill.

10

Observability

Monitoring, logging, alerting, and diagnostics are specified.

11

Backup & Recovery

Backup, restore, rollback, and synchronization recovery are defined.

12

Human Review

Independent red-team and domain expert approval are complete.

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Self-Scores

Confidence and safety scores are ignored unless externally validated.

All gate prompts are also available in the repository under /gate-prompts/

A recipe that fails one gate may still be useful. It is not ready. The difference between useful and ready is the difference between a draft and an engineering decision.