* docs(positioning): wave 1 — README hero rewrite to wiki framing (soc-nybd)
Apply the locked decisions D1–D10 from the positioning doc-sweep packet:
- D1 headline: "A wiki for your agents. Built so you own the moat."
- D2 wiki-framing opener; D3 moat statement + "shovel" anchor
- D4 non-positioning ("AgentOps is not a coding harness")
- D5 receipts block (timestamped 2026-05-04 stable snapshot)
- D6 enterprise-pattern statement (pattern claim, no company names)
- D7 "What if the labs ship this natively?" section before Contributing
- D8 Notion vs AgentOps comparison table (7 rows)
- D9 SE → Context translation table (11 rows) replacing prior SDLC/CDLC table
- D10 line budget: 420 → 295 lines
Drops: intra-page nav bar, Validate/Nightly badges (stars retained),
"Competitive Positioning" section, 12-Factor Doctrine 4-tier table (now
single sentence linking 12factoragentops.com), mermaid diagram, AOP-CLAIM
markers, cross-runtime <details> block.
Forward references to docs/wiki-for-agents.md and docs/trust-factory.md
will resolve when Wave 4 lands those new files.
Source: .agents/discovery/2026-05-07-positioning-doc-sweep.md
Epic: soc-9xn0
* docs(positioning): wave 2 — strategic doc alignment to wiki framing (soc-ylp9, soc-rnbf, soc-x3b6, soc-b1r3)
Align PRODUCT.md, GOALS.md, docs/index.md, docs/agentops-brief.md with
the README's locked positioning thesis.
PRODUCT.md (soc-ylp9):
- Mission opener: wiki framing replaces "keeps the books / compiles the
context / compounds the corpus"
- "What the Product Actually Is" leads with wiki framing before four-layer model
- New "What if the labs ship this natively?" section (D7 verbatim with
"Anthropic's Managed Agents")
- Evidence section timestamped: corpus wipe on 2026-05-07, durability fix
tracked in soc-rv5p
- Cross-links to docs/trust-factory.md (forward to Wave 4)
- last_reviewed: 2026-05-06 → 2026-05-07
GOALS.md (soc-rnbf):
- Lede: "A wiki for your agents — repo-native, version-controlled,
mechanically maintained"
- New North Star: "The wiki maintains itself: every session contributes to
.agents/ by default"
- New directive #11: corpus durability (tag corpus-state, soc-rv5p)
- All 10 prior directives preserved
docs/index.md (soc-x3b6):
- Hero rebuilt: D1 headline + subhead + D2 wiki framing + D3 italicized
moat + "AgentOps is the shovel. Start digging."
- mkdocs hero buttons (Install / See It Work / GitHub) preserved
- Body sections unchanged
docs/agentops-brief.md (soc-b1r3):
- Opener swapped to D2 + D3 (wiki framing + shovel anchor)
- New "What if the labs ship this natively?" paragraph (D7 verbatim)
- See-also forward links to docs/trust-factory.md, docs/wiki-for-agents.md
Source: .agents/discovery/2026-05-07-positioning-doc-sweep.md
Epic: soc-9xn0
* docs(comparisons): wave 3 — comparison surface refresh + 2 new lane docs
Refresh 3 existing comparison docs to current competitive state and add
2 new comparison docs covering volume-marketplace and cross-harness lanes.
Refresh:
- competitive-radar.md (soc-33kk): 7-competitor lane table, 6 differentiators
(persistent corpus, off-API daemon, multi-model council, model-independent
phase routing, context-engineering vocabulary, honest empirical disclosure),
5-lane segmentation, last_reviewed → 2026-05-07
- vs-compound-engineer.md (soc-al8s): CE current state (37 skills/51 agents/
7-phase/10-target), new model-independent phase routing row, last_reviewed
added
- vs-superpowers.md (soc-zhig): Anthropic marketplace fact, 29K+ stars, wiki
framing in cross-session memory section (25-year-old idea), last_reviewed
added
NEW:
- vs-tons-of-skills.md (soc-fmkw): volume-marketplace lane comparison —
Tons-of-Skills (425 plugins, 2,810 skills, 200 agents, CCPI grading) vs
AgentOps as different categories. 90 lines.
- vs-everything-claude-code.md (soc-jhtu): cross-harness-parity lane
comparison — everything-claude-code (48 subagents, 182 skills, 5-runtime
DRY parity) vs AgentOps's per-phase model routing. Includes credibility-
move flag on the unverified 140K+ stars / 21K+ forks claim. 181 lines.
Source: .agents/discovery/2026-05-07-positioning-doc-sweep.md, council
research at .agents/council/2026-05-07-research-readme-positioning.md
Epic: soc-9xn0
* docs(positioning): wave 4 — bridge docs + index update (soc-momx, soc-envj, soc-e031)
Two new bridge documents that complete the positioning surface, plus the
documentation index update to make all 4 new docs reachable.
NEW docs/trust-factory.md (soc-momx, 112 lines, 854 words):
The 5-step trust-factory primitive (Identity → Reproducibility → Evaluation
→ Evidence → Recovery) mapped to AgentOps mechanisms. Bridge document for
engineering leads in regulated environments who think in trust-factory
vocabulary already. Pairs with the wiki framing as the alternative buyer
view.
NEW docs/wiki-for-agents.md (soc-envj, 93 lines, 824 words):
Standalone wiki framing — "wikis aren't new, the novel part is making the
discipline mechanical so it actually happens." Uses the D8 Notion comparison
table verbatim, covers the .agents/ directory layout, and explains why most
wikis fail (write-tax + bitrot) and how AgentOps inverts the pattern.
docs/documentation-index.md (soc-e031):
- Added "Bridge / framing docs" sub-list under Four Product Layers with
trust-factory.md and wiki-for-agents.md (visible above the fold)
- Added vs-tons-of-skills.md and vs-everything-claude-code.md to existing
Comparisons section (alphabetical with other vs-* entries)
- 222 → 226 entries; 309 → 316 lines
Source: .agents/discovery/2026-05-07-positioning-doc-sweep.md
Epic: soc-9xn0
* docs(positioning): wave 5 — body doc cross-links + light framing align (soc-igqq, soc-chkd, soc-cout)
Light touch on three linked body docs to align with the wiki framing
without restructuring their substance.
docs/cdlc.md (soc-igqq):
- Lede leads with "Software engineering took 50 years..." + the 11-row
SE→Context translation table (D9 verbatim)
- "CDLC" acronym deferred to body intro after the table establishes the
concept (acronym kept in 11+ body uses)
- Companion docs section cross-links to wiki-for-agents.md, trust-factory.md
- 248 → 273 lines
docs/the-science.md (soc-chkd):
- Practitioner-facing pointer under TL;DR: "see [Trust Factory]" +
"[A wiki for your agents]"
- Companion docs section
- 671 → 678 lines, science content intact
docs/positioning/devops-for-vibe-coding.md (soc-cout):
- Primary tagline → wiki framing ("A wiki for your agents — built so you
own the moat"); secondary recast as DevOps-lineage tagline
- Category line acknowledges DevOps lineage as historical, not category label
- Date 2026-01-31 → 2026-05-07; version 1.2.0 → 1.3.0
- Cross-link to ../wiki-for-agents.md
- DevOps argument preserved (14 DevOps mentions intact, 6-differentiators
table untouched)
- 343 → 351 lines
Source: .agents/discovery/2026-05-07-positioning-doc-sweep.md
Epic: soc-9xn0
* docs(positioning): wave 6 — fix mkdocs --strict link warnings (soc-uc3w)
The wave 4 bridge docs and wave 3 competitive-radar refresh used relative
links that escape the mkdocs docs/ tree:
- ../README.md and ../PRODUCT.md cross-links → switched to absolute
https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/blob/main/{README,PRODUCT}.md
(matches existing docs/documentation-index.md convention)
- ../../.agents/council/ research link → demoted to plain-text path
reference (the .agents/ tree is gitignored runtime state, not a
publishable doc surface)
Verified: scripts/docs-build.sh --check now exits 0 with "OK: mkdocs
build --strict passed". Five strict-mode warnings cleared.
Wave 6 validation results (12-item checklist):
- mkdocs --strict: PASS
- competitive-freshness: PASS (8/8 docs ≤45 days)
- README ≤ 300: 295 lines
- D1-D10 visible across README, PRODUCT, GOALS, docs/index, docs/agentops-brief, docs/wiki-for-agents
- Cross-links: README→{wiki-for-agents, trust-factory}, PRODUCT→{trust-factory, wiki-for-agents}
- New comparison docs (vs-tons-of-skills, vs-everything-claude-code) exist
and are linked from competitive-radar.md and documentation-index.md
- "operational discipline" residues are historical-only (release notes,
origin-story, devops-for-vibe-coding messaging hierarchy)
Note: ao goals measure shows ambient fails unrelated to this sweep — the
tool is cwd-sensitive and reports "No such file or directory" for scripts
that exist (separate bug, not introduced by this work).
Source: .agents/discovery/2026-05-07-positioning-doc-sweep.md
Epic: soc-9xn0
* docs(positioning): add assurance profile for agent factory rigor
* docs(positioning): frame goals as reconcile setpoints
* chore(scripts): suppress SC2034 on bd_out — set by run_capture via name-ref
Drive-by fix needed to push crank/soc-sx99 — pre-push shellcheck flagged
bd_out as unused in test-rpi-surface-smoke.sh, but it is set indirectly by
run_capture's name-ref pattern. Adds a targeted shellcheck disable comment.
Replace "bookkeeping, validation, primitives, and flows" with the three
product layers (Context Compiler, Validation Gates, Knowledge Flywheel) in
core docs, README skills table, and comparison docs. Adds three-layer
comparison tables to all 5 vs-*.md files and a navigation section to
documentation-index.md.
Positioning previously overweighted validation while underspecifying
learning and loop closure. Now both docs frame all three gaps as equal
parts of a single lifecycle contract, with links to context-lifecycle.md.
Fix right-side │ border alignment in box diagrams. Three fix types:
- Trailing space adjustment for border alignment
- Box border widening for content that exceeded width
- Bottom border dash count matching top border
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