Agentic SDLC
40 concepts the autonomous brain knows in this domain.
The autonomous software lifecycle the factory embodies.
Pick the single highest-value change from real signals.
Small, grounded, self-contained; keep it green.
Never ship what the gates can't validate; CI is the source of truth.
Atomic, reversible, honest commit message.
Watch CI + telemetry after shipping.
Never repeat a shipped change; prefer the most substantive option.
An automated repair daemon that attempts to fix a failing change before falling back to revert, closing the…
Unifying development and operations through automation — CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability — to ship…
A queryable graph representation of a codebase that unifies AST, control-flow, and data-flow so tools and agents can…
Using a language model to score, grade, or gate another model's output against criteria, forming the automated…
Pinning exact dependency versions in a committed lockfile and enforcing it in CI with --locked so every build is…
The DevSecOps practice of moving security checks (SAST, secret scanning, vuln review) early into the pre-merge gate…
A distinct tooling category that catches errors in AI-generated code and SQL with deterministic, non-model semantic…
A paradigm where autonomous coding agents run as a CLI in the terminal, driving the whole edit-verify-ship loop rather…
A development paradigm in which humans supply high-level intent and specifications while agents author the actual code,…
Shipping each improvement as a single-concern, independently revertible commit through the full gate, keeping batch…
A software-visualization paradigm that renders a codebase as an explorable 3D city — files as buildings, packages as…
As autonomous agents generate and change code faster than humans can inspect it, review and verification capacity…
Distribute quality checks across the development lifecycle by cost and speed — run the fast, cheap, deterministic…
Building software by prompting a coding agent in natural language and accepting its output largely without reading the…
The use of coding agents to rebuild, port, and upgrade existing production applications rather than write only…
A paradigm where a formal, versioned specification artifact is authored first and serves as the durable source of truth…
As coding agents make application code cheap to regenerate from a spec, software shifts from a long-maintained asset…
A development methodology where a suite of task evals is written first and the agent, prompt, or model is iterated…
Judging a model's real quality, latency, and cost on live production traffic rather than static offline benchmarks, so…
When an agent has no local build/test toolchain, remote CI becomes the sole authoritative verifier, so every change…
A CI gate that only permits a quality metric to hold or improve and mechanically blocks any regression, turning a…
The practice of privately reporting a discovered security flaw to maintainers and agreeing an embargo and fix timeline…
Automated generation of malformed or random inputs to a program to surface crashes and memory-safety bugs that static…
A machine-readable inventory of every component and dependency in a build, enabling teams to trace which shipped…
The claim that 'given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow' — empirically undermined when a serious defect survives…
Attesting at commit granularity which changes were model-generated versus human-authored, so review effort and sign-off…
Integrating small changes continuously into a single main branch instead of long-lived feature branches, keeping the…
A diff that compares parsed syntax trees rather than text lines, reporting changes by code structure so review and…
A workflow of chaining small, dependent changes as separately reviewable commits so each ships and reverts…
A serialized gate that rebases each change on the latest trunk, runs the full CI suite, and only then lands it —…
A structured commit-message convention (type/scope: description) that makes version history machine-parseable and…
A test-suite quality technique that injects small code faults (mutants) and measures how many the tests catch, exposing…
Extracting patterns, signals, and narratives from a project's version-control history (commits, deploys, change…