# Resolve Stage — Elaboration

## Criteria Guidance

### Good criteria — concrete and verifiable

- "Fix addresses the root cause identified in investigation, not just the symptom the mitigation covered"
- "Test coverage includes a regression test that would have caught this incident before it reached production"
- "Deployment plan includes canary or staged rollout with rollback criteria"

### Bad criteria — vague (no clear check)

- "Code is fixed"
- "Tests pass"
- "Deployed to production"

