# Safe Rollout

## What this is

This page describes how to launch or change a Protege with lower risk.

## When to use it

Use it before enabling a new Protege, widening its scope, or changing its connected integrations.

## What you need first

* A working Protege
* Verified Event Feed and Audit behavior in at least one controlled test

## Steps

### 1. Start narrow

* Use one project, repo, team, channel, or equivalent boundary
* Avoid company-wide destinations for a first rollout

### 2. Test with real but safe traffic

* Use one event path you understand
* Confirm Event Feed first
* Confirm Audit second

### 3. Prepare the stop path

Know how to:

* Disable the Protege
* Pause the workflow if needed
* Repair or disconnect a broken integration
* Confirm whether removing integration permissions affects any live Proteges

### 4. Expand only after verification

Expand scope only when:

* The Protege behaves consistently
* The owner understands the failure modes
* The verification path is clear to the wider team
* Billing and usage expectations are understood for the larger rollout

{% hint style="info" %}
**Engineer note:** Safe rollout is mostly about scope control, observability, and easy rollback. Keep those three things simple before you broaden coverage.
{% endhint %}

## How to verify

### You’re done when...

* The Protege works inside a narrow boundary
* Event Feed and Audit both confirm the intended behavior
* The owner knows how to pause or disable the workflow

## Common failures

* Turning on a broad workflow first
* Using several integrations before validating one simple path
* Expanding scope before a clean controlled test
* Disconnecting or changing an integration without checking which Proteges depend on it

## Next step

* [Security and permissions](/workspace-settings/security-and-permissions.md)
* [Troubleshooting](/event-feed/troubleshooting.md)


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