Agent Factory Capability Supply Chain and Registries
Explain how reusable agent capabilities move from an idea to an approved, discoverable, operable factory component.
A focused view of boundaries, contracts, state, authority, failure paths, and tradeoffs drawn from this chapter.
Reconstruct and defend this chapter’s architecture.
Reconstruct the architecture, name each boundary, and defend the tradeoffs.
Open the source exercise
Draw the supply chain for an agent that composes two skills, three tools, a model profile, a context policy, and an evaluator. Add one incompatible harness, one revoked tool, one unowned dependency, and one expired evaluation. Mark where each condition is detected and who can approve an exception.
4. Tradeoffs and alternatives
A central registry improves consistency and revocation but can become a bottleneck. Federated authoring with centrally enforced publication contracts usually preserves team autonomy while retaining common controls. Small organizations can begin with signed manifests in source control, provided runtime resolution and lifecycle state remain authoritative.
One universal schema simplifies tooling but can flatten meaningful differences between tools, prompts, skills, and agents. Use a shared envelope plus type-specific manifests. Avoid a single quality score: eligibility is multidimensional and risk-specific.
5. Current Mission Control Implementation
The current curriculum and studied implementation contain versioned agent records, skill discovery and linting, model routes, context packages, harness manifests, sandbox profiles, evaluation mechanisms, and Factory Version bindings. These are important components of an Agent Factory.
The current material does not yet demonstrate one canonical registry boundary with unified publication, dependency resolution, compatibility qualification, deprecation, quarantine, and revocation across every capability type. Exact skill-version binding and a complete capability promotion path remain incomplete. This chapter defines the missing operating contract; it does not claim the full registry exists in production.
Review this chapter.
Challenge a claim, boundary, missing failure mode, unclear term, or unsupported evidence statement.
- Claim
- Boundary
- Failure
- Evidence