Ask / Scope

Today, developers usually discover hard gating violations later in the pipeline or deployment process. The ask is to surface hard gating violations directly in the developer’s IDE so that issues are visible as early as possible in the development workflow.

The scope includes showing developers clear information about:

Which security or compliance gate was violated

Which file, dependency, image, or vulnerability caused the violation

Why the violation is considered a hard blocker

What remediation action is expected

Whether an exemption is possible or already exists

This should help developers identify deployment blockers before committing, merging, or triggering downstream pipeline execution.

Affected users

Primary users are application developers who consume STO gating results as part of their development and deployment process.

Secondary users include security teams, platform teams, DevOps teams, and release managers who currently spend time helping developers understand why a deployment was blocked.

Impact

This improves early visibility into security and compliance blockers and reduces late-stage pipeline failures. Developers can fix issues earlier, which reduces deployment delays, support requests, and back-and-forth between engineering and security teams.

It also improves developer experience by making STO feedback actionable within the tool developers already use every day.