What problem does it solve? IT automations often reach production without identity controls, idempotency, rollback paths, or accountable owners, causing duplicate writes, silent failures, and unrecoverable changes. This Skill provides a structured design contract, workflow, and readiness gate to make automations predictable, bounded, observable, and reversible. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Automation Design Contract: Defines objectives, triggers, inputs, identity and minimum permissions, approval checkpoints, idempotency, batching, retries, audit fields, secrets handling, monitoring, and rollback before implementation. - Agentic Action Policy: Sets explicit boundaries for what an AI agent may gather, draft, and execute, requiring human approval for privilege elevation, deletion, isolation, or broad external changes. - Production Readiness Gate: Requires evidence across ten gates including dry-run review, pilot execution, failure/idempotency testing, rollback testing, and owner approval before labeling an automation production ready. - Use Case: An IT admin wants to schedule a PowerShell script that disables stale accounts across tenants. Use this Skill to produce a design covering identity resolution, dry-run deltas, per-target audit results, and a disable switch before any write occurs. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to review your automation script or runbook for production readiness using the it-automation-governance design contract and readiness gate.
