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title: "Keep a person's sign-off before release · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/ai-assisted-development/reviewing-agent-output/human-sign-off
updated: 2026-10-21
licence: "CC BY 4.0"
licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

# Keep a person's sign-off before release

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By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers). Updated 2026-10-21.

- ID: AID-51
- Level: Recommended
- Chapter: [Reviewing agent output](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/ai-assisted-development/reviewing-agent-output)
- Rule: A person approves each release, or approves the automated gate itself in writing and reviews releases afterwards.
- How: Agents do not carry responsibility for outages, data leaks or broken promises to customers. Name who signs off. An automated gate means checks, automatic rollback and monitoring that the person has approved in writing. That person then reviews each release after it ships. Keep the sign-off as proof, as [Prove every production change was reviewed](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/controls-and-evidence/change-evidence) says.
- Check: Every release in the deploy log names its approver, or the repository holds the signed approval of the gate and a review note per release.

## Related rules

- [Prove every production change was reviewed](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/controls-and-evidence/change-evidence) in Compliance
- [Test every build with internal testers first](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/mobile-apps/signing-and-release/internal-testing) in Mobile apps

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- Previous: [Have someone other than the requester approve agent changes](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/ai-assisted-development/reviewing-agent-output/independent-approval)
- [Reviewing agent output](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/ai-assisted-development/reviewing-agent-output)