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The Engineering Advisor is the judgment layer on top of the pre-flight check: alongside the SHIP / HOLD / BLOCK verdict and the CSC Score, it gives the read a senior engineer would — grounded in what’s actually live in your cluster right now (active incidents, recent failures, what this change touches), and honest about what it can’t see. An illustrative example of the Advisor’s note on a pre-flight check:
I’d wait. payments-api has an active incident, and this change touches the same service. Nothing here contradicts the score — but the score can’t see the incident timeline. Ship after the incident closes.

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See it, then try it

Watch the Advisor decide — 2 minutes, no install

Open the interactive demo and choose the Engineering Advisor scenario: a live pre-flight where the score says SHIP and the Advisor says wait — and is right. The exact moment above, played out.

Try this yourself

Install on your own cluster and follow Your First Recommendation — you’ll run a real pre-flight in minutes. Advisor notes appear where the Early Access flag is enabled for your tenant.
To understand what stands behind a note like that — evidence, what the system knows and doesn’t, and how to challenge it — read How ChangeGuard Makes Decisions.

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Silence is deliberate

If the Advisor has nothing material to add beyond the score and the verdict, it stays silent. Restraint is the feature — you should never see filler advice, and when a note does appear it’s because something changed the decision.

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Availability — Early Access

The Engineering Advisor is Early Access: real and running, but off by default (feature flag AI_ENGINEERING_ADVISOR_ENABLED) and offered to design partners or on request. If you don’t see it in your tenant, that’s expected — it is not self-serve today. Contact us to join the Early Access program.
Don’t plan production dependencies on Early Access capabilities. What every tenant has today, GA:
  • The pre-flight check — an on-demand SHIP / HOLD / BLOCK verdict with the score and reasons. See Connect your first cluster.
  • Incident investigation — root cause with cited evidence, a proposed fix, and how to verify it. See Your First Recommendation.
The Advisor is one of a set of judgment capabilities in Early Access — Engineering Opinion (an owned, evidence-tied position on an incident), Engineering Experience (institutional memory from similar past incidents), and reasoning / confidence factors. The full list, with flags, is in Product concepts. Next: Understanding your score →