Quality Gates Skill The Binary Validation Protocol Every task completion passes through a quality gate before its status transitions to COMPLETE. The gate is not advisory — a task that fails its gate is immediately moved to VALIDATING status (if it was IN PROGRESS) and the autonomous loop treats it as incomplete. The executor must address every failed criterion before re-submitting for validation. The foundational rule is binary evaluation: each acceptance criterion is either PASS or FAIL. There is no partial credit, no "mostly done," and no subjective judgment. If a criterion cannot be evalu…