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Quality gates move left, not away

Rebuild the sequence in "Quality gates move left, not away" from memory, ending with the check that proves the outcome.

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Quality gates move left, not awaythe layered pre-PR pipeline

The auditor's unspoken worry is volume: if an agent proposes 10x-100x more code, do your quality controls still hold? The answer Cursor's own engineering uses is to stack quality earlier in the pipeline, not to lean on the single PR gate. The order matters:

  1. 1At generation time, run a de-slop command (published on Cursor's public marketplace) that scans the model's output and strips the AI-slop patterns: generic names, verbose comments, over-engineering, unnecessary abstraction, off-house-style boilerplate.
  2. 2Before a PR exists, layer BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. plus automations and cloud-agent reviews to verify quality before the code even reaches Git. Add scoped self-review prompts run with a strong model (e.g. 'Is this regressing anything outside the feature flag?').
  3. 3At the PR, the human review + CI gauntlet runs as always. Nothing here removes that gate; the earlier layers just mean less slop arrives at it.
Verified - Bugbot resolution

BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. is Cursor's AI code reviewer, integrated into GitHub PRs at the org/repo level. It is high signal-to-noise: Cursor reports consistently resolving north of 70-80% of issues flagged.

Config knobs (admin dashboard): which repos it runs on, scrutiny level, per-PR vs manual trigger, and surface-only vs auto-fix. Trust progression: start by approving each fix, then graduate to auto-fix once comfortable.

Frame it as evidence, not magic: BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition.'s findings support human review, they do not replace it. Resolution percentages are perishable - confirm before quoting in a deal.