For Engineers

Design context before you code.

How rkito connects to your workflow, reads your code, and governs your AI coding agents.

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How rkito hooks into your PRs and governs your coding agents.

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Playbook

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Metrics

Four numbers to watch

IFRIntent-First Rate% of PRs with design approved before the first commit.ADRIFTAgent-Introduced Drift Rate% of agent PRs that produced ungoverned drift.MCPCARMCP Context Access Rate% of agent PRs where rkito MCP was queried before coding.DCSDesign Conformance Score% of PRs that passed all Lens checks. The headline metric.

Concepts

Ideas engineers work with.

PlatformShift Left, Shift Right

CDA catches architectural violations at the PR; MCP prevents them before the first line is written — how governed…

Change ControlDesign Review vs. Code Review

Code review asks whether code passes; design review asks whether a decision conforms to architectural intent — two…

CDAContinuous Design Audit

The automated, per-PR process that checks every code change against approved architectural intent at CI/CD speed — how…

Other roles

Same structure, different seat.

For CTOs

Architecture health for the board, AI governance risk, when to escalate.

For CSOs

Security conformance, audit preparation and agent risk.

For VPs of Engineering

Sprint conformance, team-level drift and process health.

For Chief architects

Lens authoring, conformance review and blocked-PR triage.

For Product owners

Delivery predictability and design approval timing.

For SREs

Architectural risk, incident root cause and agent drift signals.