AI Agents & Governance
Governance beats clever prompts.
AI systems only scale when agent behavior is bounded, testable, and accountable. Prompts are inputs. Governance is the architecture.
AGENTS.md contracts
Explicit contracts define scope, constraints, and decision rights for every agent. Behavior is governed by rules, not prompts.
Codex-native skills
Skills are modular, reviewable behaviors invoked intentionally. They are versioned, audited, and treated as system capabilities.
Reproducible outputs
Every agent output is traceable to inputs, constraints, and execution context. Nothing is opaque or one-off.
Human ownership
Agents assist execution. Humans retain release authority, accountability, and final decision-making responsibility.
Governance defines behavior. Quality systems establish trust.
MASS governs how AI systems behave — defining constraints, ownership, and traceability for agent-driven execution.
Downstream quality systems consume these governed outputs as testable evidence, applying verification and validation before any release or decision is trusted.