Backporting production fixes with coding agents

Backporting production fixes with coding agents requires more than successfully cherry-picking a commit, since older release branches may differ in dependencies, APIs, build tools, schemas, and release policies. Teams should define the affected branches, isolate worktrees, identify the minimal portion of the original change needed to fix the defect, and give agents clear acceptance criteria, verification steps, and boundaries against unrelated modifications. Conflicts should be resolved by preserving the original root-cause correction while adapting implementation details to the older architecture, such as using compatible utilities, migrations, or dependency APIs. Each backport should be tested with the target branch’s documented toolchain through regression, package, integration, and release checks, ideally confirming the test fails before the patch is applied. Separate pull requests for each branch should document the original fix, version-specific adaptations, provenance, and exact test results, while automated review can help detect unrelated changes, weak tests, and violations of support policy.

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