Which runtime mechanism establishes formal, enforceable constraints on an autonomous agent's internal state to mitigate procedural-compliance gaps throughout execution?

A procedural-compliance gap is classified as an intra-run execution failure mode.

Identify the three distinct execution-level manifestations of a procedural-compliance gap in an autonomous agent.

An autonomous software-release agent has active deployment instructions in its context. During a deployment run, it compiles the application, skips the required test verification step, and attempts to trigger an immediate handoff to the production release environment. Explain how the agent runtime can utilize transition guards and pre-commit checks (before_transfer) to resolve this workflow failure.