I let my AI agents be advisory-only. Here's the rules-first PR risk engine I shipped instead.

A pattern I keep seeing in early AI-in-the-SDLC teams: someone wires an LLM into the PR-review pipeline as a quality gate, the LLM marks one perfectly fine PR as "risky" two weeks in, the team lead overrides it once and grumbles about it twice, and within a month the AI gate is silently disabled. You can't recover from that. Once a TL has spent a Friday afternoon explaining to engineering why the AI thinks their PR is dangerous when it isn't, "AI dev tools" become a punchline in their next 1:1 w