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The 12 Factors
The doctrine behind AgentOps. Start with Factor I and progress through each tier.
I
FoundationContext Is Everything
Manage the context window like production input.
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II
FoundationTrack Everything in Git
If it's not in git, it didn't happen.
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III
FoundationOne Agent, One Job
Scoped task. Fresh context. Never reuse a saturated window.
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IV
FlowResearch Before You Build
Understand before you generate.
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V
FlowValidate Externally
No agent grades its own work. Ever.
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VI
FlowLock Progress Forward
Validated work ratchets. It cannot regress.
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VII
KnowledgeExtract Learnings
Every session produces two outputs: the work, and the lessons.
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VIII
KnowledgeCompound Knowledge
Learnings flow into future sessions automatically.
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IX
KnowledgeMeasure What Matters
Track fitness, not activity.
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X
ScaleIsolate Workers
Own workspace. Own context. Zero shared mutable state.
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XI
ScaleSupervise Hierarchically
Escalation flows up, never sideways.
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XII
ScaleHarvest Failures as Wisdom
Failures are data. Index them like successes.
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