Areas of practice
Dimensions, in plain language.
Each dimension is an area of everyday practice. The summary tells you what it is about; the technical layer below opens the structure if you want it.
These are the areas the model pays attention to. Each one has a short, plain summary you can recognise your own practice in. The technical structure behind each dimension is available on request via the toggle below.
What follows is the everyday-language version. The technical layer is one click away.
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Operational
Versioning & Reproducibility
Reproducible builds, prompt/code/model version-pinning, deterministic re-runs, and artifact lineage.
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Operational
Observability & Telemetry
Run-level traces, agent invocation logs, cost / latency / quality metrics, and live drift signals.
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Operational
Continuous Integration
Automated test gates, prompt regression suites, eval-on-commit, and merge protections.
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Operational
Deployment & Release
Progressive rollout, blue/green or canary release, rollback playbooks, and deployment audit trails.
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Knowledge
KB Curation & Lessons
KB section discipline, lessons capture, deprecation hygiene, and read-tracking discipline.
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Knowledge
Retrieval & Grounding
Retrieval quality, grounding traceability, citation discipline, and hallucination-control evidence.
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Knowledge
Onboarding & Pedagogy
Stakeholder onboarding, agent-orientation paths, role-based training, and pedagogy evidence.
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Risk
Security & Hardening
Secret hygiene, supply-chain security, agent permission scoping, and hardening drift detection.
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Risk
Compliance & Jurisdiction
GDPR, EU AI Act, sector-specific regimes, jurisdiction-obligation registry, and DPIA evidence.
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Risk
Risk Register & Tabletops
Active risk register, scheduled red-team exercises, tabletop simulations, and post-mortem feedback.
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Risk
AI Disclosure & Transparency
Public AI-disclosure artifacts, decision-explainability, model cards, and use-case transparency.
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Outcome
Deliverable Acceptance
Stakeholder-acknowledged acceptance of deliverables, signed sign-offs, and rejection-rate tracking.
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Outcome
Stakeholder Outcomes
Customer-impact metrics, business-value tracking, stakeholder feedback loops, and outcome-based KPIs.
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- D1 · Group A Operational Versioning & Reproducibility3 categories 7 items
Summary
Reproducible builds, prompt/code/model version-pinning, deterministic re-runs, and artifact lineage.
Group context
Day-to-day discipline of running an agentic-software-development practice — the engineering hygiene that keeps the hive accountable, repeatable, and recoverable.
Indicative cross-walk
- ISO 27001:2022 A.8.32
- NIST SSDF PO.3
- CMMI CM
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D2 · Group A Operational Observability & Telemetry3 categories 8 items
Summary
Run-level traces, agent invocation logs, cost / latency / quality metrics, and live drift signals.
Group context
Day-to-day discipline of running an agentic-software-development practice — the engineering hygiene that keeps the hive accountable, repeatable, and recoverable.
Indicative cross-walk
- NIST CSF 2.0 DE.CM
- SPACE framework
- MLOps maturity (level 2+)
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D3 · Group A Operational Continuous Integration2 categories 6 items
Summary
Automated test gates, prompt regression suites, eval-on-commit, and merge protections.
Group context
Day-to-day discipline of running an agentic-software-development practice — the engineering hygiene that keeps the hive accountable, repeatable, and recoverable.
Indicative cross-walk
- NIST SSDF PW.7
- CMMI PR
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D4 · Group A Operational Deployment & Release3 categories 8 items
Summary
Progressive rollout, blue/green or canary release, rollback playbooks, and deployment audit trails.
Group context
Day-to-day discipline of running an agentic-software-development practice — the engineering hygiene that keeps the hive accountable, repeatable, and recoverable.
Indicative cross-walk
- ISO 27001:2022 A.8.31
- NIST SP 800-53 CM-3
- MLOps maturity
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D5 · Group B Knowledge KB Curation & Lessons3 categories 8 items
Summary
KB section discipline, lessons capture, deprecation hygiene, and read-tracking discipline.
Group context
How the hive captures, validates, and propagates knowledge across humans and agents — KB curation, lessons, retrievability, and onboarding semantics.
Indicative cross-walk
- ISO 9001 7.1.6
- COBIT 2019 BAI08
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D6 · Group B Knowledge Retrieval & Grounding3 categories 8 items
Summary
Retrieval quality, grounding traceability, citation discipline, and hallucination-control evidence.
Group context
How the hive captures, validates, and propagates knowledge across humans and agents — KB curation, lessons, retrievability, and onboarding semantics.
Indicative cross-walk
- NIST AI RMF 1.0 (MAP/MEASURE)
- ISO/IEC 25010
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D7 · Group B Knowledge Onboarding & Pedagogy3 categories 9 items
Summary
Stakeholder onboarding, agent-orientation paths, role-based training, and pedagogy evidence.
Group context
How the hive captures, validates, and propagates knowledge across humans and agents — KB curation, lessons, retrievability, and onboarding semantics.
Indicative cross-walk
- ISO 9001 7.2
- CMMI OT
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D8 · Group C Risk Security & Hardening2 categories 7 items
Summary
Secret hygiene, supply-chain security, agent permission scoping, and hardening drift detection.
Group context
How the hive manages security, regulatory, ethical, and operational risk — drift, red-teaming, jurisdictional obligations, and AI disclosure.
Indicative cross-walk
- ISO 27001:2022 A.5/A.8
- NIST CSF 2.0 PR.AA
- PCI DSS
- CIS Benchmarks
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D9 · Group C Risk Compliance & Jurisdiction4 categories 10 items
Summary
GDPR, EU AI Act, sector-specific regimes, jurisdiction-obligation registry, and DPIA evidence.
Group context
How the hive manages security, regulatory, ethical, and operational risk — drift, red-teaming, jurisdictional obligations, and AI disclosure.
Indicative cross-walk
- GDPR Art. 6/7/13/14/30/32
- EU AI Act Art. 9/15/16/26/50
- ISO 27701
- ISO 42001
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D10 · Group C Risk Risk Register & Tabletops3 categories 8 items
Summary
Active risk register, scheduled red-team exercises, tabletop simulations, and post-mortem feedback.
Group context
How the hive manages security, regulatory, ethical, and operational risk — drift, red-teaming, jurisdictional obligations, and AI disclosure.
Indicative cross-walk
- ISO 31000
- ISO 22301
- NIST CSF 2.0 ID.RA
- MITRE ATT&CK Navigator
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D11 · Group C Risk AI Disclosure & Transparency2 categories 7 items
Summary
Public AI-disclosure artifacts, decision-explainability, model cards, and use-case transparency.
Group context
How the hive manages security, regulatory, ethical, and operational risk — drift, red-teaming, jurisdictional obligations, and AI disclosure.
Indicative cross-walk
- EU AI Act Art. 50
- NIST AI RMF (GOVERN)
- Microsoft RAI MM
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D12 · Group D Outcome Deliverable Acceptance3 categories 5 items
Summary
Stakeholder-acknowledged acceptance of deliverables, signed sign-offs, and rejection-rate tracking.
Group context
Outcomes the practice produces for stakeholders: deliverable acceptance, customer feedback loops, business-level impact.
Indicative cross-walk
- ISO 9001 8.6
- CMMI VV
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.
- D13 · Group D Outcome Stakeholder Outcomes4 categories 9 items
Summary
Customer-impact metrics, business-value tracking, stakeholder feedback loops, and outcome-based KPIs.
Group context
Outcomes the practice produces for stakeholders: deliverable acceptance, customer feedback loops, business-level impact.
Indicative cross-walk
- SOC 2 (CC)
- SPACE framework
- CMMI OPP
These are anchor-references only. The full per-item cross-walk lives in the canonical reference.