Part VI. Operating Model¶

By this point, we already have most of the technical frame:

• architecture;
• safety;
• memory;
• execution layer;
• observability and eval loop.

But after that, the bottleneck is usually not technical anymore. It becomes organizational.

Even a good agent platform quickly runs into questions like:

• who owns the base layers;
• who is responsible for policy and guardrails;
• how product teams use the platform without breaking it;
• how not to end up with five incompatible agent runtimes inside one company.

In this part, we will look at the operating model: who owns what, how to build golden paths, and how to avoid turning the platform into a chaotic set of local decisions.

In This Part¶

• Chapter 14. Platform Team vs Product Teams
• Chapter 15. Golden Paths, Shared Gateways, and Anti-Zoo Patterns

The next natural step after this part is to complete the platform roadmap and move into the reference implementation.