Own the Operation

📰 Dev.to AI

MCP connects agents to tools. Workflows coordinate tools. Skills teach models how to use tools. None of those automatically owns the operation. An operation is the durable unit of work: resolve this secret, explain this failed deploy, audit this cloud account, prepare this release, reconcile these receipts, summarize this incident. It includes the auth path, retries, local conventions, failure taxonomy, output contract, safety policy, and receipt. If that knowledge lives in a pr

Published 5 Jun 2026
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