Agents
Golden Path
A golden path is the single sanctioned way to do a common piece of work.
It is the default harness, sandbox, and repo conventions a team starts from, not one assembled from scratch.
It only earns the name if it is the easiest way to get the work done, rather than merely the mandated one.
A slower sanctioned path is exactly what drives people onto an unsanctioned workaround instead.
Whether one exists before the second team onboards predicts whether an agent rollout survives past its pilot.
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