📰 Dev.to · Anthony Johnson II

An agent that runs its own tests and reports on its own results is the oldest closed verification loop in software engineering. The final layer of the agentic g

Documented rules don't stop a confident subagent. Hooks do. This is the runtime-enforcement layer of the agentic governance stack — what a protected-branch guar

The standard advice for governing AI coding agents is to write a good CLAUDE.md. That answers orientation. It does not answer governance, error rates, or securi

Schema and freshness checks pass while semantic-layer metrics silently degrade. Distributional validation — grounded in Shannon entropy — is the missing trust l

Schema checks validate shape. Entropy measures information content. Here's why the gap between them is where your pipeline silently fails — and how to close it