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ADLC
ADLC: the agent development life cycle, where the sandbox lives
The ADLC lives on this tab because the environment operates it: the sandbox, the CI gates and the registry are harness and platform machinery. The sandbox is a lifecycle construct, not an architecture component. CI gates that keep development from going rogue: business-blindness linter · schema validation · referential integrity · tenant-isolation test · eval regression.
1. Design
One-page spec + architecture decision record before any code.
One-page spec + architecture decision record before any code.
2. Build in sandbox
Isolated workspace, relaxed gates, fake data, auto-expiry. Prototyping happens inside the platform, never on personal machines.
Isolated workspace, relaxed gates, fake data, auto-expiry. Prototyping happens inside the platform, never on personal machines.
3. Eval gate
Golden-exemplar scoring plus tool-layer evals must pass.
Golden-exemplar scoring plus tool-layer evals must pass.
4. Promotion checklist
CI-enforced for shared assets: ADR recorded + passing eval + second occurrence.
CI-enforced for shared assets: ADR recorded + passing eval + second occurrence.
5. Registry-only deploy
An unregistered agent cannot obtain credentials, there is no other path to client data.
An unregistered agent cannot obtain credentials, there is no other path to client data.
6. Operate
Content-blind tracing, budget metering, gate metrics.
Content-blind tracing, budget metering, gate metrics.
7. Optimize
Operational-loop tunings land as versioned config changes through CI; silent drift is a defect.
Operational-loop tunings land as versioned config changes through CI; silent drift is a defect.
8. Retire
Deprecate, never delete.
Deprecate, never delete.