Part 1 · The field guide

Read the anti-patterns

14 articles · ~2 hours end-to-end · 10–15 min each

Named patterns you can raise in architecture review and procurement, each with a definition, a hypothetical failure scenario, and a layered remediation grounded in current industry frameworks.

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Part 2 · The self-test playbook

Test your own agent

5 tips · ~45 min for a first pass · 10 min pre-release

A paste-ready prompt pack you can run inside any AI coding assistant pointed at your tool. Thirteen targeted checks, a red-team prompt, a fix-list discipline, and a 10-minute pre-release routine.

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Part 3 · The release-engineering field guide

Ship the agent to production

8 chapters · ~2 hours end-to-end · vendor-neutral

Delivery models, chain of custody, signed-image appliance, the pin file, bootstrap-repo architecture, ephemeral CI runners, pre-flight hygiene, release cadence and rollback — the eight architectural decisions that decide how well a release holds up six months after handover.

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