bcquality/microsoft/knowledge/upgrade/unreleased-schema-change-needs-no-upgrade-path.md
Wenjie Fan 1bf5a3b276
Add precision guards for systematic agent false-positive patterns (#112)
* Add precision guards for systematic agent false-positive patterns

Encodes reviewer-confirmed FP guards from the online eval: tooltip-inherited, page-trigger default return, drill-down filter not visible in diff, dual-trigger CalcFields (do.md); and a released-baseline precondition for breaking-change/upgrade findings on never-shipped symbols.

* Scope suggested-code and location to exactly the changed lines

Addresses reviewer-reported misplaced suggestions from the eval: insert-only-property emitting the whole field, single-statement rewrites anchored on the procedure name, and reductive multi-line collapses. The skill now emits a location range that matches precisely the rewritten lines.

* Correct suggested-code scoping guidance to match one-click anchor mechanics

A lone inserted line matches no existing file line and cannot be anchored; bracket the new line with one adjacent unchanged line instead. Reductive collapses omit suggested-code and fall back to a manual snippet.

* Move BC-specific FP guards out of do.md into leaf skills

do.md is the stable action-skill template and must stay domain-agnostic (JesperSchulz review). Relocate the four known false-positive patterns to their domain leaves: ToolTip-inheritance to al-ui-review; drill-down/lookup filtering and CalcFields lifecycle to al-performance-review; page-trigger exit(true) semantics to al-error-handling-review.

* Move suggested-code line-scoping guidance out of do.md into al-code-review

do.md must not carry instructions for how the review skill behaves (JesperSchulz review). Relocate the location/suggested-code precise-span rules to al-code-review's existing Suggested-code guidance section. do.md is now unchanged vs main.

* Move false-positive guards from skills into knowledge files

Keep review skills slim (finders/appliers). The FP guards and released-baseline preconditions previously embedded in leaf skills become negative-clarification knowledge articles in their domains, and the agent-findings policy edits to al-ui/al-privacy are reverted to main. Adds 6 knowledge files: error-handling (page-boolean-triggers-default-to-true), ui (bound-page-field-inherits-source-field-tooltip), performance (calcfields-in-both-getrecord-triggers-is-not-redundant, page-effective-filter-may-live-outside-the-diff), breaking-changes (unreleased-symbol-change-is-not-a-breaking-change), upgrade (unreleased-schema-change-needs-no-upgrade-path).

* Revert branch's suggested-code scoping addition in al-code-review

The three location-span shapes added to al-code-review are output-format mechanics, not domain knowledge: one-click span correctness is the engine's job (Resolve-SuggestionPlacement) and do.md already owns the suggested-code/location contract. The AL concerns the examples illustrate are already covered by existing knowledge (use-isempty-for-existence-check, data-classification-required-on-pii-fields, no-space-before-method-parenthesis). Restores al-code-review to main; the branch now adds only the 6 knowledge files.

* Restore al-ui/al-privacy review skills to base (zero diff in PR)

These two leaf skills carried an accidental net change against the PR merge-base because an earlier revert used the current origin/main (post-#110) instead of the branch base (pre-#110). Restoring them to the merge-base version removes them from the PR diff entirely. Three-way merge still preserves main's #110 suppression.

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Co-authored-by: wenjiefan <wenjiefan@microsoft.com>
2026-07-17 14:17:04 +02:00

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---
bc-version: [all]
domain: upgrade
keywords: [released-baseline, unreleased, schema, migration, obsolete, data-loss, false-positive]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
---
# Unreleased schema changes need no upgrade or migration path
## Description
Upgrade and migration findings protect data and schema that have already shipped to customers. A schema element — a table, field, key, or enum — that is new in this app, or was added and then changed within the same still-unreleased development cycle, needs no upgrade code or migration path: no customer has data in it yet, so there is nothing to preserve or migrate. Such a change is not an obsoletion, data-loss, or breaking-migration defect.
Release status is established from the diff, the app's `app.json` version, or a released baseline. A schema element with no released baseline has no persisted customer data to protect.
## Best Practice
Before asserting an obsoletion, data-loss, or breaking-migration defect, establish that the affected table, field, key, or enum existed in a released version. Do not require upgrade or migration code for schema that never shipped. When release status cannot be established from the diff, `app.json`, or a released baseline, omit the finding rather than demand a migration path.
## Anti Pattern
Demanding an upgrade codeunit, migration path, or data-preservation step, or flagging data loss, for a table, field, key, or enum that is new in the current unreleased cycle and has no released baseline.