Goldens & Guardrails

Gent is designed around written expectations. A golden describes the outcome a workflow should preserve, produce, or compare against before changes are accepted.

Why goldens matter

Goldens help developers keep agentic work bounded:

• they capture expected behavior in a reviewable form
• they make regressions easier to notice
• they give Gent a concrete target when planning changes
• they reduce ambiguity before generated work is accepted

How guardrails help

Gent’s guardrails are intended to keep workflows aligned with your specifications, configuration, and expected outcomes. As more workflow commands become available, this page will document how to define, run, and review goldens from the CLI.