Open-Source Playbook

The Agentic Development Playbook

AI has compressed the build step from days to hours. Coding is no longer the bottleneck — requirements clarity, problem decomposition, and quality validation are. This playbook is a living guide to restructuring how engineering organizations deliver software in that world.

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What's Inside

The Five-Stage Agentic SDLC

Define, Shape, Build, Validate, Run. How the software delivery lifecycle changes when agents own execution and humans own intent.

Specification-Driven Development

When code generation is instantaneous, ambiguity compiles into production. Requirements must be detailed enough to drive implementation without continuous intervention.

Coaching Agents

Curating coding standards, data models, business rules, and guardrails so agents produce contextually appropriate code — not just syntactically correct code.

Quality Gates

Structural checkpoints replacing informal practices: spec completeness, architecture review, test coverage, security scanning, and release readiness.

New Roles & the Agent Bench

Agentic Architect, Agent Coach, Agentic Validation Architect. A curated bench of specialized agent configurations becomes institutional capability.

Maturity Progression

Five levels from non-adoption to agent-native. A 30-60-90 day implementation path following natural group dynamics: norming, storming, performing.

A Living Document

This playbook evolves with our practice. The articles on this site are the journal; the playbook is where patterns graduate into durable guidance. If something is wrong, incomplete, or missing — we want to know.

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