Platform
Gather the requirements and rules, give them to your coding agent, and check the change before merge.
ACE does those three things for every change, from a fix to a live app to a whole new application, so changes ship in days instead of weeks, without rework, and with the evidence your reviewers and auditors need.
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Gather the requirements and rules
ACE pulls the request from Jira, the design from your wiki and your code, and the architecture, security and compliance standards the change must meet. It links them into one application context graph, so nothing the agent needs lives only in someone's head.
Done by ACE Copilot, connectors and ACE Baseline for existing code.
Comes in from
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Application context graph: requirements, design, rules and decisions, linked
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Give them to your coding agent
Each task reaches Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or Antigravity as a bundle with its requirement, the design it fits into, the policies in scope and the evals that prove it. When the agent needs more, it asks ACE over MCP instead of guessing.
Done by the Coding Context Harness, inside the agent your team already uses.
Example task bundle
ExpenseFlow · second approver
Every prompt is a task bundle, built from application context.
Traces back to the Application Context Graph
Policies in scope
Eval checklist from acceptance criteria
- The second approver is never the first approver
- Rejected claims never reach the payment batch
- Every decision writes an audit event
- Tests assert the policy outcome, not the status code
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Check the change before merge
Every pull request is checked against the requirement it came from and the policies that apply. A change that fails goes back to the agent with the reason, and a change that passes merges with the evidence a reviewer or auditor needs.
Done by Merge Pilot and the Governance and Policy scorecards, with a CI gate on your threshold.
Pull request checks
Merge allowed, evidence attached
The two ideas behind it
Application Context Engineering makes the agent right. The Governed Agentic SDLC proves it.
A governed context layer sits between your scattered sources and every agent, and ACE applies that idea to software delivery.
Application Context Engineering
A living graph of the whole application, from intent and standards to architecture, specs, tasks, code and evidence, with each task getting only the slice it needs.
What is Application Context EngineeringGoverned Agentic SDLC
Four steps from intent to deployment, Define, Architect, Build and Deploy, each gated by automated checks and your own policies, with a person attesting wherever you want one and the audit evidence recorded as you go.
See the four stepsThe detail · where it lives
One context layer between scattered sources and the agents at every stage.
Without a layer in the middle, every agent finds, reads and interprets every source on its own, so ten agents and six sources means sixty fragile integrations that each read the application a little differently. With the layer, each source connects once and every agent reads the same governed context.
Inside ACE
Built from the Architecture as Code metamodel up, with the SDLC running on top.
Comes in from
Jira and Confluence
Files and knowledge bases
Existing source code
ServiceNow
Your standards and policies
Define
Architect
Build
Deploy
Context Orchestration: the right slice for every agent, and every gate governed
Agentic Workflows
Agent Studio
Connectors
Application Context Graph: living, linked and versioned
Architecture as Code metamodel
Goes out to
Claude Code
Cursor
Codex
Antigravity
ACE Sandbox
Through MCP, so developers keep their tools
Four steps
Every step produces something you can review, and nothing moves on until it passes.
1
Define
Capture what the business wants and the rules it has to meet.
Application intent
Requirements, a change request or existing code come in from Jira, Confluence, files, ServiceNow or your repo.
Application analysis
ACE generates the application profile, its quality goals and the compliance frameworks that apply.
You get intent captured once, with the nonfunctional rules settled before design starts.
2
Architect
Design the change as code and break it into tasks an agent can build.
Architecture and design
Capabilities, systems and components are designed as code and checked against your architecture and security standards.
Specifications
Requirements get Given, When, Then acceptance criteria, and ACE plans a task graph with dependencies and waves.
You get a design your architects approve, with every task sequenced, traced and paired with its evals.
3
Build
Hand each task to your coding agent with the context it needs.
Development
Each task bundle lands in your coding agent, which asks ACE over MCP for impacted components or related design when it needs more.
You get tasks built and tested on the first attempt far more often.
4
Deploy
Check the change before it merges and ship it with its evidence.
Continuous integration
Merge Pilot reviews every pull request against policy and context, and CI can fail any build below your compliance threshold.
Deployment
Infrastructure as code, deployment artifacts and docs ship together, and what was built writes back into the context graph.
You get only compliant code merged, and a release with its audit evidence attached.
What's in the platform
Eight parts that work together, and you can start with any one of them.
ACE Copilot
Guides your team from intent through analysis, design and specs in one conversation, and stays with every application after that.
Application Context Graph
The living, versioned model of each application, from capabilities and requirements down to components, decisions and code.
Coding Context Harness
Delivers task bundles, skills and rigor profiles for prototype, MVP and production into whichever coding agent you use.
Merge Pilot
Review agents that check every pull request against your skills, your policies and, once you add it, your application context.
ACE Baseline
Reads an existing codebase and reverse engineers its capabilities and features, so modernization starts from what the code really does.
Governance Scorecards
Governance and policy scorecards on every application out of the box, plus your own checks, scripted or AI based.
Standards Library and Skills
Enterprise coding standards and agent skills, approved once and distributed to every repo automatically.
Agent Studio
Build and tune the agents that run each step, including your own agents for your own workflows.
Works with your stack
Keep your agent, your repo and your pipeline.
Security
Built for teams that answer to auditors.
- Runs on a SOC 2 Type II platform hosted on Google Cloud
- Your code stays in your repo, and you own all of it
- Context is stored harness neutral, so you can switch agents without rebuilding it
- Policy packs for frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI DSS
See how ACE could fit your workflow.
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