GitOps Isn't Just for Infrastructure Anymore
When most people hear GitOps, they think Kubernetes.
Well… Why not?
Declarative, version-controlled project structure, infrastructure, governance, and agent behavior.
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Status: Living document
Last updated: July 29, 2026
Maturity: Actively used and rapidly evolving
This workflow treats AI systems as specialized members of a software engineering team rather than as interchangeable coding assistants. Repository conventions, specifications, ranked milestones, reusable protocols, automated reviews, and infrastructure-as-code provide the operating structure. Short commands such as “do the next milestone” work because the repository already describes how the agent should operate.
Part 2 of The AI-Assisted Software Engineering Workflow.
The workflow is converging on two complementary control layers.