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Governance
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Building the Agentic Operating Model (Part 5)
Part 5 and the capstone of the Agentic Design Systems series. Tools and loops are not an operating model. This is how the people, the process, and the governance fit together so a team of humans and a fleet of agents can run a design system sustainably, without the whole thing depending on the one person who understands the agents.
Observer Mode: Learning Before Acting (Part 3)
Part 3 of the Agentic Design Systems series. Observer is the longest, cheapest, most-skipped trust level. Run an agent read-only against your real system for weeks before you give it any authority, and let the audit decide whether it should ever be promoted at all.
Trust Levels: How Agents Earn Autonomy (Part 2)
Part 2 of the Agentic Design Systems series. The five trust levels (Observer, Advisor, Junior, Senior, Autonomous), what each one is allowed to do, and the exact criteria to promote an agent from one level to the next.
Build Your Design Team's Operating System in a Repo
Your team's operating knowledge (how you name tokens, review work, and decide what good is) lives in people's heads. Put it in a repo of skills and playbooks and your least AI-fluent teammate works like your best one, while agents execute against the same source. This guide builds it, with the maturity ladder and review model that keep it honest.
Rolling Out AI Across a Design Team
Individual adoption is easy; team capability is not. The operating model for taking AI from three enthusiasts to a whole design org: shared context repos, trust levels, usage norms, and the rituals that make it stick.