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The minimum viable stack

Five ordered steps (see it, rule it, test it, contain it, prove it), one per stack layer, chained top to bottom.

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The minimum viable stack Five ordered steps (see it, rule it, test it, contain it, prove it), one per stack layer, chained top to bottom. One vertical slice, every layer 1 See it Layer 02 Inventory & Transparency A registry a deploy writes to 2 Rule it Layer 01 Govern-as-Code One policy with teeth 3 Test it Layer 03 Evals & Red Teaming as Evidence One adversarial eval gate 4 Contain it Layer 04 Runtime Controls & Observability Identity and a tested kill switch 5 Prove it Layer 05 Assurance & Continuous Compliance Evidence as a by-product
The minimum viable stack The five ordered steps that stand the whole stack up thinly, one per layer, for a team of one. Do step one this week. Drawn from chapter 04.

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Five ordered steps for a team of one, in the order see it, rule it, test it, contain it, prove it. Step 1, Layer 02: a registry a deploy writes to, with an owner and a scope per entry. Step 2, Layer 01: one policy with teeth, as code, in the pipeline, blocking on failure. Step 3, Layer 03: one adversarial eval against your highest-risk agent, wired so a regression fails the build. Step 4, Layer 04: every agent under its own identity with a scope, and a tested way to stop it. Step 5, Layer 05: each of the above emits a structured, timestamped record into one store.

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