2 min lesson
Expand access after evidence
Answer "Why should a SOX pilot begin with deny-by-default access and human merge approval?" Use one lesson detail to support it.
Step 1 of 3
Add autonomy after the pilot
Do not begin with automatic merge in a regulated repository. Track review results, escaped defects and audit coverage while people approve every change. Vendor customer stories describe adoption that grew over several weeks with mentorship. Treat them as vendor-reported, not a forecast for every team, and measure your own pilot against criteria the team agrees on in advance.
For a SOXSarbanes-Oxley Act. A US law that forces companies to keep auditable controls over any system that affects their financial reporting. Press Enter for the full definition. pilot, I would start with read-only external context, narrow command approval, hooks for secrets and protected paths, sandboxed local execution and dedicated cloud VMs. The agent can propose a change, but a person reviews it and a separate approver controls merge.