How the AC/DC framework helps teams govern AI coding agents
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Framework for governing AI coding agents, highly relevant to agent orchestration.
The AC/DC framework (Agent Centric Development Cycle) defines four stages—Guide, Generate, Verify, Solve—to govern AI coding agents at scale, countering the market’s overemphasis on generation speed. Effective governance hinges on strong Guide and Verify stages: Guide provides structured context (architecture, standards, compliance) to prevent drift, while Verify catches probabilistic failures (logic flaws, security issues) early rather than as a late-stage checkpoint. Without these, teams risk code generation outpacing their ability to establish trust and maintainability.
- Adopt the AC/DC framework by investing in structured guidance and early verification to match agentic development scale with human oversight capacity.
As a solutions architect building multi-agent systems, you need a repeatable governance model to prevent agent-generated code from creating downstream risk and to maintain trust across CI/CD pipelines.