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Guide Vellum Assistant feature flag changes and rollout hygiene. Use when adding, editing, reviewing, or documenting assistant feature flags, rollout-gated behavior, or platform flag follow-up work.

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Vellum Feature Flag Rollout

Flag Rules

Assistant feature flags use simple kebab-case keys and must be declared in:

meta/feature-flags/feature-flag-registry.json

New flags require:

  • scope: "assistant"
  • a canonical kebab-case key
  • a safe default
  • tests or guard coverage when resolver behavior changes
  • a companion vellum-assistant-platform PR to provision the flag in Terraform

Rollout Hygiene

There is no release-note surfacing mechanism — the workspace-bulletin feature was removed and the historical release-note migrations are frozen. Do not add new release-note migrations for any feature (flagged or GA). If a release needs user-facing notes, design an explicit on-demand surfacing mechanism first.

Permission Controls V2

Under permission-controls-v2, do not add new deterministic approval modes for assistant-owned actions beyond the conversation-scoped host computer access gate. Avoid global toggles, persistent trust-rule UI, wildcard scopes, and time-window approvals.

Review Workflow

  1. Confirm whether the change adds, renames, removes, or consumes a flag.
  2. Check registry declaration and key format.
  3. Check default behavior and rollout safety.
  4. Check docs, release notes, and user-facing copy for flag leaks.
  5. Check whether the platform repo needs a Terraform update.
  6. Recommend focused tests for resolver, route, UI, or behavior changes.

PR Notes

Call out:

  • flag key
  • default state
  • rollout plan
  • companion platform PR status
  • whether release notes are intentionally omitted