{
  "artifact": "AgentSEO durable marketing-gate control-flow evaluation",
  "published_at": "2026-08-24",
  "run_date": "2026-08-21",
  "method": "Deterministic controlled simulation of 10,000 outbound actions across four gate designs",
  "assumptions": {
    "request_count": 10000,
    "seed": 20260821,
    "policy_change_rate": 0.09,
    "non_approval_rate": 0.21,
    "resume_event_distribution": {
      "one": 0.82,
      "two": 0.15,
      "three": 0.03
    }
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "control": "ungated",
      "transmissions": 12114,
      "duplicate_transmissions": 2114,
      "policy_bypassing_transmissions": 1106,
      "unapproved_transmissions": 2544
    },
    {
      "control": "approval_only",
      "transmissions": 9570,
      "duplicate_transmissions": 1673,
      "policy_bypassing_transmissions": 879,
      "unapproved_transmissions": 0
    },
    {
      "control": "preflight_policy_and_approval",
      "transmissions": 8691,
      "duplicate_transmissions": 1514,
      "policy_bypassing_transmissions": 0,
      "unapproved_transmissions": 0
    },
    {
      "control": "durable_gate",
      "transmissions": 7177,
      "duplicate_transmissions": 0,
      "policy_bypassing_transmissions": 0,
      "unapproved_transmissions": 0
    }
  ],
  "durable_gate_controls": [
    "recheck current policy before the action",
    "require action-time approval for the exact payload",
    "record a stable idempotency key before transmission",
    "verify the receipt before considering a retry"
  ],
  "reproducibility": {
    "script_repository_path": "scripts/run-contribution-gate-simulation.mjs",
    "source_summary_path": "docs/marketing/guest-posts/devopscom/research/contribution-gate-simulation-2026-08-21/summary.json"
  },
  "limitations": [
    "This is a synthetic workflow-control illustration, not production telemetry.",
    "The policy, approval, and resume rates are declared assumptions rather than measured industry rates.",
    "Zero problematic transmissions in this seeded run is not a reliability guarantee.",
    "An idempotency key prevents duplicates only when the execution system stores and enforces it correctly."
  ]
}