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First Rollback: Revert the Agent PR You Cannot Explain

What first rollback actually means First rollback means undoing your own agent PR. Freeze merge before you diagnose Do not keep generating patches during a bad merge.

First Rollback: Revert the Agent PR You Cannot Explain

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What first rollback actually means First rollback means undoing your own agent PR.

Freeze merge before you diagnose Do not keep generating patches during a bad merge.

gh pr ready --undo gh run cancel --branch " $BRANCH " git status -sb Those three commands buy you quiet thinking time.

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What first rollback actually means First rollback means undoing your own agent PR. Freeze merge before you diagnose Do not keep generating patches during a bad merge. gh pr ready --undo gh run cancel --branch " $BRANCH " git status -sb Those three commands buy you quiet thinking time.

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  • Inventory every file the agent touched You cannot revert a change you cannot list.

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Your first AI pull request will often need rollback. Plan that rollback before you merge anything. Agents still produce large and confident diffs today.

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