Locked steel hatch in a dark factory floor — the landing gate that will not lift without a receipt

Landing floor without a GitHub App — gates still count

Companion to GitHub tokens for agent fleets and the agent production system series. A lot of people hear “receipt-gated landing” and “GitHub App bot” as one package. They are not. Human mode is the default — and it is enough to stop agents from treating “please review before merge” as optional prose. The instruction that kept not working Every agent setup eventually writes some version of: Before merging, run the review step. ...

August 21, 2026 Â· Dave Voyles