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Show HN: A deterministic governance harness for agentic development loops

A developer has released a proof-of-concept for a deterministic governance harness that validates LLM-generated code against policies, aiming to increase confidence in autonomous code generation. The system uses hooks to enforce rules, such as ensuring a button is blue, by checking the output against specified policies.

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I genuinely think that autonomous code generation is the future. But today we are facing a problem: we cannot be confident enough in the result produced by an LLM. The problem is its way of working. Even with strong directive such as “make a button blue”, we cannot be sure that the button will be blue (maybe the context has contradictory informations). This POC is based on hooks and is validating that a deterministic generic harness is possible.

For example, you may distribute a skill saying that a button must be blue, with a policy that checks that the button is blue. Thanks to this, the system will apply the policy and check the button’s color.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002376](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002376)

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