𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗔𝗣𝗜𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁.
They publish, then align. Release, then document. Deploy, then fix what doesn't match the standard. With human developers consuming those APIs, this works. Badly, but it works. Developers adapt. They ask questions. They work around gaps.

𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁.

An agent uses what it finds, exactly as it is. A vague parameter description isn't a minor annoyance. It's an input to behavior nobody designed. An undocumented edge case isn't a known issue. It's a variable that produces results nobody can fully explain after the fact.

The window for correction collapses. The cost of getting it wrong upstream goes up.
Governance by design means the standards are where the decisions happen, in the design workspace, before the product is published. Not in an excel that gets read once and forgotten.

That's what the article we published this week is about.
👉 https://lnkd.in/eFwb4NH3

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