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Lifecycle Governance Checklist for DeepSeek-Based Agent Workflows

An independent lifecycle governance checklist for DeepSeek-based agent workflows, focused on lifecycle responsibility, evidence, accepted outcomes, rollback, remediation, and substitution.

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DEFINITION

Lifecycle governance for DeepSeek-based agent workflows means applying lifecycle responsibility questions to workflows that use DeepSeek tooling or models without treating model selection as a complete governance answer.

Why ordinary model/tool governance is insufficient

Model selection, output review, or logs can support governance, but they do not by themselves establish authority boundaries, evidence chains, accepted outcome ownership, rollback paths, or remediation closure.

White paper source context

This playbook is a practical reading of the GAIC white paper's lifecycle-responsibility argument. For this route, the relevant responsibility objects are Authority boundary, Evidence chain, Accepted outcome, Substitution record, Dispute object, Remediation closure. RCCS-M and ALCS are used as source vocabulary for governance coverage and lifecycle coherence; this page does not add scores or become legal advice, certification, procurement guidance, or a vendor assessment.

GAIC white paper MRO overview RCCS-M source anchor ALCS source anchor

Lifecycle governance checklist

  1. Define workflow intent, active constraints, and tool authority before execution.
  2. Capture evidence that can support review, replay, dispute, and remediation.
  3. Name the accepted outcome owner and acceptance criteria.
  4. Define rollback and remediation paths for generated or tool-mediated work.
  5. Track model, tool, prompt, runtime, or harness substitution.
  6. Separate lifecycle governance evidence from claims about model capability.

Related Missing Regulatory Objects

Authority boundaryEvidence chainAccepted outcomeSubstitution recordDispute objectRemediation closure

RCCS-M / ALCS relevance

RCCS-M is relevant because governance coverage must include lifecycle objects beyond model documentation. ALCS is relevant because responsibility must remain coherent as work moves through delegation, evidence, acceptance, dispute, remediation, and closure.

Protocol path: MPLP as one option

MPLP is one possible protocol path for lifecycle responsibility records. It is not required, exclusive, certified, or regulator-approved.

Vendor boundary

This page does not evaluate DeepSeek products or claim affiliation with DeepSeek. It uses generic lifecycle governance language for DeepSeek-based workflows.

No current DeepSeek feature claims are cited or relied on in this page; vendor-specific details are intentionally avoided.

Boundary statement

This page is an independent lifecycle governance checklist. It is not official vendor documentation, endorsement, certification, legal advice, or procurement recommendation.