AI Development Methodology

E00 — Intake — Active Backlog

Real work that is not worth a charter. Same item format, same gates, no epic above it. See the charter for what intake is and the eviction rule that empties it.

Filed so far: 9. Closed: 6. Three of the first five came out of E10’s convention sweep as decisions that were recorded and then not executed — which is the same failure class as a claim asserted and not checked, and is precisely the kind of work that had nowhere to live before this file existed.

Summary

ID Title Priority Effort Status
BL-0058 Read the Agent File spec; decide on a conformance line P2 S ready
BL-0069 Prepare repository presentation and provenance before listings P1 S under-review

BL-0069 — Prepare repository presentation and provenance before listings

Field Value
Epic E00-intake
Pillar P5
Priority P1
Effort S
Status under-review
Test partial — local checks passed; PR integration and hosted verification pending
Deps —
Lock —

Why / Description: The maintainer requested all necessary housekeeping before the six proposed directory listings. Public metadata, release/version signals, license recognition, detached-skill attribution, and the existing Pages presentation must agree with the evidence.

Done means:

Plan: correct discovery metadata; fix presentation/provenance on a branch; validate the final tree and static presentation; prepare the normal PR handoff; refresh the local distribution kit. No directory submission or new methodology release is included.

Verification: recorded in E00/TEST.md when observed. Checks still pending must remain unchecked.

Maintainer direction, 2026-10-18: use the latest content for listings. The selected source is the merged v1.36.0 preview at ed65748, including v1.35.0; the older v1.34.0 tag remains historical context. This does not declare release acceptance or authorize a merge/tag/Release operation.


BL-0058 — Read the Agent File spec; decide on a conformance line

Field Value
Epic E00-intake
Pillar P4
Priority P2
Effort S
Status ready
Test not-tested
Deps —
Lock —

Frozen intent — Why / Description: and Done means: approved by maintainer on 2026-08-25.

Why / Description: A triage of alvinreal/awesome-opensource-ai on 2026-08-25 found the list is overwhelmingly runtime infrastructure — inference engines, training frameworks, serving stacks — against a methodology that governs projects using agents. Roughly nine tenths is not applicable, which is the same result E09 got from agent-engineer and is itself the useful half of the answer.

One entry is worth reading. Agent File (.af) is an open format for serializing stateful agents with persistent memory. Every other candidate solves state or coordination with a running service; Agent File solves portability with a file format — the same wager this methodology makes, reached independently by people building runtimes. It is the only entry on that list that can validate or falsify the core premise.

The move is the BL-0034 shape, which worked: read the normative spec, compare field by field, and if the models line up publish a compatibility signal — one sentence naming the format the handoff artifacts resemble. A statement of fact, not a rule to learn. If they do not line up, that finding is worth the same paragraph in FUTURE.md.

Done means:

Files (probable): possibly skills/ai-dev-methodology/SKILL.md and README.md; possibly nothing.

Notes: The triage that produced this item ranked candidates from one-line descriptions and opened no repositories. That is enough to pick; it is not enough to conclude. Runners-up recorded in FUTURE.md.