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Curriculum/Start Here/A focused view of boundaries, contracts, state, authority, failure paths, and tradeoffs drawn from this chapter.
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Capability Coverage and Maturity

This page prevents curriculum breadth, editorial maturity, and implementation proof from being mistaken for one another. A subject may be well explained and not implemented. A mechanism may exist in code and lack accepted operating evidence

Status: Canonical navigationRisk: variableLifecycle: intent · plan · execute · verify · deliver · learnContent reviewed 2026-08-30Maturity guide →
Claim boundaryThis chapter references implementation evidence. Inspect its evidence boundary before treating a claim as proven.
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A focused view of boundaries, contracts, state, authority, failure paths, and tradeoffs drawn from this chapter.

This page prevents curriculum breadth, editorial maturity, and implementation proof from being mistaken for one another. A subject may be well explained and not implemented. A mechanism may exist in code and lack accepted operating evidence. Review every claim along all three axes.

Maturity vocabulary

StatusMeaning
MissingNo accountable coverage exists yet.
ScopedThe responsibility and intended boundary are named, but the chapter is not drafted.
Draft for studyUseful working material that has not passed the editorial and technical review bar.
Review readyComplete enough for external architecture, technical, editorial, and usability review.
ValidatedReview feedback is resolved and the material has passed its defined checks or lab evidence.
Operationally provenA current implementation has repeatable, versioned production or production-equivalent evidence.

Review ready describes the document. It does not mean the implementation is operationally proven. Operationally proven is scoped to an exact workflow, repository class, risk level, environment, version, and observation window.

Current coverage map

Capability areaCurriculum statusImplementation evidence boundary
Factory definition and operating modelDraft and canonical coveragePartial case-study evidence
Detailed architecture ownership and four synchronized viewsReview readyArchitecture trace is documented; complete implementation conformance is unproven
Factory system inventory and governance decision rightsReview readyOrganization-wide inventory completeness and operating effectiveness are unproven
Authority, domain records, and orchestrationDraft for studySeveral mechanisms traced; complete live path not proven
Orchestration component and runtime contractsReview readyTwelve component families are specified; full contract conformance is unproven
Agent architecture, tools, context, and memoryReview ready core chapterVersioned case evidence with bounded gaps
Agent Factory and capability supply chainReview ready architectureUnified registry and lifecycle not proven
Tool, skill, and integration contractsReview readyExisting callable capabilities are not asserted to meet every contract field
Knowledge, retrieval, poisoning, and revocationReview readyProduction registry, benchmark, deletion, and poisoning controls are unproven
Multi-agent topologies and autonomy selectionReview readyEach workflow must still prove benefit and verifier independence
Repository onboarding and intelligenceReview ready architectureEnd-to-end onboarding path not proven
Autonomous workflow portfolioReview ready architectureFirst bounded workflow only; wider catalog unproven
Testing, CI/CD, artifacts, and deliveryReview ready architecture plus earlier draftsComplete production path not proven
Platform, scheduling, cost, and resilienceReview ready architecture plus runtime draftsFleet-scale scheduling and disaster recovery unproven
Enterprise operations, control tower, drift, and incident responseReview readySLOs, detection quality, response time, and failover are unproven
Agentic security, identity, privacy, and complianceReview ready additions plus earlier draftsFull adversarial and compliance evidence unproven
Governance controls and emergency authorityReview readyControl operating effectiveness and emergency timing are unproven
Evaluation science and controlled learningReview ready additions plus earlier draftsProduction optimization lifecycle unproven
Hands-on masteryThirteen executable specifications availableAccepted runs remain limited; the original golden path is blocked

Evidence required to advance a chapter

A full technical chapter is not validated until it has:

  1. stable definitions and responsibility boundaries;
  2. an architecture, state model, or implementation contract;
  3. failure modes, threats, tradeoffs, and recovery;
  4. measures, evidence, and explicit nonclaims;
  5. primary references and versioned implementation sources where applicable;
  6. an executable or clearly labeled design exercise;
  7. technical and editorial review; and
  8. resolved feedback recorded in the changelog.

Evidence required to advance a capability

Operational proof requires an exact version, qualified environment, identity, policy, representative workload, independent evidence, failure and recovery exercise, observation window, and accountable acceptance. A screenshot, demo, merged change, or passing agent report is insufficient on its own.

How to use this map

Use the public Coverage view to filter the curriculum by section, persona, lifecycle phase, maturity, and risk. Use the Reviewer Guide when providing feedback and the Changelog to see which claims moved.

Evidence boundary

Curriculum maturity is not implementation proof.

This chapter defines architecture or practice. It does not by itself prove a corresponding production implementation.

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