# theagenticsprint.com > The Agentic Sprint: a human-governed operating model for software delivery with autonomous agents. The manifesto, the normative specification, its companion standards and the working templates. The Agentic Sprint is a proposed operating model for software delivery in which autonomous agents execute bounded engineering work and people keep authority over intent, architecture, acceptance and release. It was written by Siri Dalugoda (https://dalugoda.com) and is published here independently, at version 0.1. The `/md/` links are clean Markdown editions of each document, intended for reading, citation and machine-assisted research. Each carries the document identifier, version, status, dependencies, canonical URL and licence in its frontmatter. Document identifiers (D1 to D13, T1 to T9) are stable. Cite a requirement by its document and identifier, not by a page position. D1 is the normative root; the manifesto (D11) introduces no requirements and cannot override D1. Licences: documents CC BY 4.0; templates CC0 1.0. Citation for the series: Dalugoda, Siri. Agentic Sprint Methodology, v0.1. https://theagenticsprint.com/ ## Start here - [Agentic Sprint Manifesto](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-manifesto): Ten principles for human-governed software delivery with autonomous agents. This is the front page of the site. - [Agentic Sprint Specification v0.1](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-specification-v0-1): A formal specification for human-governed software delivery with bounded autonomous execution, independent verification and explicit release authority. The normative core. ## Methodology documents - [Agentic Sprint Specification v0.1](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-specification-v0-1): A formal specification for human-governed software delivery with bounded autonomous execution, independent verification and explicit release authority. (D1, Draft specification, normative) - [Agentic Sprint Reference Architecture](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-reference-architecture): A reference architecture for moving approved software work through orchestration, bounded agent execution, independent verification, human review and controlled release. (D2, Reference architecture, informative) - [Agentic Sprint Operating Model](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-operating-model): How a software delivery team can organise roles, decisions, ceremonies, work in progress and escalation around human-gated agent execution. (D3, Operating model, informative) - [Autonomous Loop Integration Specification](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/autonomous-loop-integration-specification): A specification for using Autonomous Loop as the persistent, resumable execution protocol inside a human-gated Agentic Sprint. (D4, Optional profile specification, normative) - [Build Plan Standard](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/build-plan-standard): A reusable standard for producing, reviewing and approving the plan required before agentic implementation begins. (D5, Draft standard, normative) - [Agentic Definition of Ready and Definition of Done](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-definition-of-ready-and-done): A practical conformance model for deciding when an agentic work item may start and what evidence is required before implementation can be considered complete. (D6, Draft standard, normative) - [Agentic Engineering Guardrails and Security Model](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-engineering-guardrails-security-model): A security model for bounded agent execution, independent verification, context integrity and human-controlled release in an Agentic Sprint. (D7, Security model, normative) - [Agent Learning and Context Governance Standard](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agent-learning-context-governance-standard): A governance standard for turning human review corrections into durable, tested and reversible agent context. (D8, Draft standard, normative) - [Agentic Sprint Quality and Verification Model](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-quality-verification-model): A layered verification model for challenging, accepting and releasing agent-produced software without confusing green checks with proof of correctness. (D9, Draft quality model, normative) - [Agentic Sprint Metrics Framework](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-metrics-framework): A balanced measurement framework for agentic delivery that connects flow, quality, economics, learning and safety without reducing engineering to velocity. (D10, Draft metrics framework, normative) - [Agentic Sprint Manifesto](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-manifesto): Ten principles for human-governed software delivery with autonomous agents. (D11, Manifesto, informative) - [Agentic Sprint Implementation Guide](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-implementation-guide): A practical 30, 60 and 90 day path from AI-assisted engineering to governed agentic delivery. (D12, Implementation guide, informative) - [Agentic Sprint Whitepaper v1.0](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-whitepaper-v1): A proposed operating model for human-governed software delivery with autonomous execution, independent verification and explicit release authority. (D13, Whitepaper, informative) ## Working templates - [Build Plan Template](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/build-plan-template): A reusable Human Gate 1 plan for translating an approved requirement into bounded, reviewable engineering work. (T1, Working template, informative) - [Agent Skill Template](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agent-skill-template): A reusable, reviewable definition for an agent skill with explicit scope, permissions, evidence and evaluation. (T2, Working template, informative) - [Architecture Context Template](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/architecture-context-template): A maintainable context record for giving agents a current view of system boundaries, invariants, decisions and ownership. (T3, Working template, informative) - [Agent Handover Template](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agent-handover-template): A resumable handover record for preserving agent execution state, evidence, failures and the next safe action. (T4, Working template, informative) - [Review Evidence Template](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/review-evidence-template): A structured independent Checker record for testing implementation claims before Human Gate 2. (T5, Working template, informative) - [Security Assessment Template](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/security-assessment-template): A reusable security and authority assessment for agentic work, including assets, trust boundaries, tools, threats, controls and acceptance. (T6, Working template, informative) - [Jira Story Template](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/jira-story-template): A reusable work-item record that gives an agentic delivery system clear intent, acceptance conditions, constraints and readiness evidence. (T7, Working template, informative) - [QA Evidence Template](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/qa-evidence-template): A reusable independent product-assurance record for validating behaviour, journeys, regression risk and unresolved quality concerns. (T8, Working template, informative) - [Agentic Sprint Retrospective Template](https://theagenticsprint.com/md/agentic-sprint-retrospective-template): A reusable retrospective record for examining flow, human intervention, quality, guardrails and durable learning after agentic delivery work. (T9, Working template, informative) ## Machine-readable resources - [Full document index](https://theagenticsprint.com/llms-full.txt): Metadata-backed summaries, dependencies and links for every document. - [Sitemap](https://theagenticsprint.com/sitemap.xml): All indexable routes. - [RSS feed](https://theagenticsprint.com/rss.xml): Document entries. - [Atom feed](https://theagenticsprint.com/atom.xml): Document entries in Atom format. ## Related records elsewhere - [The original Agentic Sprint essay](https://dalugoda.com/agentic-sprint): The plain-language introduction, which remains on the author's site. - [Autonomous Loop](https://dalugoda.com/autonomous-loop): An open-source implementation of the optional inner execution loop described in D4. Source: https://github.com/asiridalugoda/autonomous-loop - [Source repository for this site](https://github.com/asiridalugoda/AgenticSprint): Content, code and the design record. - [Author](https://dalugoda.com): Siri Dalugoda's writing and research.