Curriculum Changelog

Material changes to scope, terminology, maturity, architecture, and review status are recorded here. Minor punctuation and formatting corrections may be grouped.

2026-08-30 — Reference architecture depth release

Added

• A detailed architecture ownership and coverage matrix.
• Four synchronized reference-architecture views: lifecycle, logical components, deployment/trust boundaries, and authority/evidence.
• Governed factory-system inventory, governance operating model, decision rights, ten-family control catalog, and emergency-control semantics.
• Twelve orchestration component families, runtime envelopes, state, stop, failure, recovery, capacity, cost, and compatibility contracts.
• AI systems foundations, permission-aware knowledge and retrieval pipeline, tool/skill/integration contracts, multi-agent collaboration contracts, and a minimum-sufficient autonomy ladder.
• Enterprise operations and FinOps reference plus a control-tower response lifecycle from observation through verified improvement.
• Four failure-injection labs covering authority, orchestration, knowledge, and external capabilities.
• A public architecture hub with lifecycle, plane, component, governance, inventory, pattern, monitoring, data-flow, and evidence views.

Changed

• Deepened knowledge engineering, scheduling/capacity/cost, resilience/disaster recovery, and observability/forensics with specification-level contracts.
• Expanded all navigation, learning, coverage, glossary, reviewer, and search surfaces while preserving Markdown as the source of truth.
• Kept all new chapters review ready: documentation completeness does not advance implementation evidence to validated or operationally proven.

2026-08-30 — Autonomous factory coverage expansion

Added

• Agent Factory capability supply chain, registries, packaging, dependency resolution, certification, promotion, deprecation, and revocation.
• Repository onboarding, codebase intelligence, readiness, and drift.
• An explicit autonomous engineering workflow catalog with change and operational workflow patterns.
• Complete testing strategy, CI/CD, artifact, migration, compatibility, progressive-delivery, rollback, and production-verification coverage.
• Developer portal, service catalog, golden paths, scheduling, capacity, cost, fairness, resilience, disaster recovery, and human-agent control surfaces.
• Agentic threat modeling, workload identity, secrets, privacy, licensing, and compliance coverage.
• Evaluation science, controlled experimentation, capability optimization, learning from success, and regression control.
• Seven executable lab specifications for certification, repository onboarding, adversarial defense, delivery rollback, incident response, continual improvement, and disaster recovery.
• Public capability coverage, maturity, reviewer guidance, and feedback paths.

Changed

• Expanded Builder and Deep Study paths beyond pull-request generation into capability management, delivery, production verification, and learning.
• Reworked topic discovery around section, persona, lifecycle, maturity, and risk filters.
• Made document maturity visible in discovery views.
• Clarified that review-ready curriculum does not imply an operationally proven implementation.

Known evidence boundaries

• The original golden-path execution lab remains blocked until its exact runtime prerequisites and accepted browser evidence exist.
• New executable labs are review-ready specifications; accepted lab runs are not yet claimed.
• The complete mission-to-production and governed-improvement paths remain architectural targets until versioned operational evidence is retained.