Track T08
Follow this capability from individual use to systems other people can depend on.
You will use an AI coding assistant to produce one small script, understand its steps, and verify its result. Use only public, synthetic, or explicitly approved data. You remain responsible for every command you run and every file the script changes.
At Level 3 Builder, another person may depend on code you direct an agent to change. The goal is no longer merely to get code that runs. You need a change whose intended behavior was agreed before implementation, whose boundaries are visible in the diff, and whose evidence lets a reviewer accept or reject it...
At Level 4 Integrator, a code change is not delivered when it works on your machine. It is delivered when it has a known base, a narrow branch, reproducible local evidence, an inspectable pull request, an independent review, required checks, and a merge path that protects everybody else's work.
At Level 5 Operator, automation can propose changes while nobody is watching, consume third-party code, and move an artifact toward a shared environment. Your job is to make its authority smaller than its task, make every release claim traceable to an exact commit and artifact, and prove that the previous approved...