Commitment Gate (Harness Engineering)
A commitment gate is a verification checkpoint between an agent producing a candidate output and that output being “locked in” — emitted as a final answer, written to disk, or used to call an irreversible tool. Instead of running skills along a fixed script and fusing results at the end (where errors propagate silently into late fusion), a harness with commitment gates pauses at each commit point, runs relative checks, and either lets the result through or triggers a targeted recovery loop. ...