The record · what survived
Survivor Briefs
Each brief records what survived an inquiry: the surviving explanation, why it currently works, and what could defeat it.
Published briefs
Does the boundary-and-gate pattern describe what agentic engineering requires of any practitioner, or does it describe what one practitioner has found by combining agentic tools with a deliberate choice not to read most of the code?
What evidence, gathered outside my own six months of work, would let me tell whether the boundary-and-gate pattern is a genuine shift in engineering or a feature of my particular setup — and is that evidence something I can actually obtain before committing to the factory?