From Assistance to Agency: Rethinking Autonomy and Control in CI/CD Pipelines

Marcus Emmanuel Barnes, Taher A. Ghaleb, Safwat Hassan

Abstract

AI agents are assuming active roles in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows, yet the research community lacks a shared vocabulary for describing what it means for CI/CD to be agentic, how much decision authority is delegated, and where control should reside. This paper presents a vision of agentic CI/CD in which the central challenge is not improving task performance but designing authority transfer, defined as the delegation of operational decisions from human-cont

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@article{llmsec202600175,
  title = {From Assistance to Agency: Rethinking Autonomy and Control in CI/CD Pipelines},
  author = {Marcus Emmanuel Barnes and Taher A. Ghaleb and Safwat Hassan},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3805760.3814897},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07062},
}