The three deficiencies, addressed per commit
Git automation and CI-CD address all three deficiencies on every change, signed.
Every commit triggers test selection, runs the selected tests, records the outcome - the three deficiencies Mark named, addressed automatically and signed into the deploy event. The audit trail and the deploy log are the same record.
"We and every other software company in the world are outstripping our ability to test what we're building."
Why now: the velocity of agentic coding has decoupled from the velocity of testing, auditing, and validation - the knowledge and proof that AI agents did what they were tasked to perform, i.e. testing, in this case. An AI agent can produce more code in a day than a team used to write in a sprint. The test, audit, and compliance layers did not get faster at the same rate. The gap is structural and widens with every model release.
Three deficiencies - in every company today - that no software addresses:
- determining which tests need to run for a particular release
- checking whether they ran
- recording the outcome
Mark Walker, nue.io - meeting transcript [00:46:36]
Git automation and CI-CD are how the three deficiencies are addressed automatically per commit, with the deploy event itself signed and recorded.
Every commit addresses the three deficiencies
CI addresses deficiency 1 (test selection plan) and deficiency 2 (execution) on every commit. CD addresses deficiency 3 (signed deploy event recording the outcome) on every release. The Git log and the audit trail are not separate records; they are the same record.
Every Git event - branch creation, commit, PR, merge, deploy, rollback - mirrors into the audit trail with author, timestamp, and the originating task ID.
Approval gates and signed deploys
Production deploy requires the approving engineer's name to be recorded against the deploy event. The approval is HMAC-signed, immutable, queryable. Rollbacks are one click and themselves recorded as deploy events.
Manual repository edits that bypass the automation (force-pushes, history rewrites, direct merges) are detected and flagged as incidents. Bypass is impossible without leaving a record.
Git backend is interchangeable
github.com, self-hosted Gitea (`git.coditect.ai`), or a customer-managed Git provider - chosen per project. Sovereignty-sensitive customers can move source code outside public-cloud Git providers without losing any audit feature.
The CI/CD pipeline configuration is portable across backends; the audit semantics are identical.