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Agentic Software Engineering

Adopt AI coding agents as a governed engineering capability.

Help engineering organizations adopt AI coding agents securely — from readiness and tool evaluation through secure pilots, enterprise rollout, MCP integration, DevSecOps transformation, and developer AI governance.

Readiness & tool evaluationSecure pilotsRepository intelligenceMCP & DevSecOpsDeveloper AI governance
Practice coverage for GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor.

Why teams engage

The adoption risks that appear before enterprise scale

Coding agents create value quickly, but unmanaged tools, weak repository context, and unclear execution boundaries prevent safe expansion.

01

Unapproved tools become shadow engineering infrastructure

Teams adopt coding agents independently, creating inconsistent source-code handling, access, and audit exposure.

02

Pilots stall without repository context or evidence

Promising demos do not become repeatable delivery when instructions, approved repositories, and success measures are missing.

03

Agent and MCP access outpaces the operating model

Tool integrations expand before authentication, authorization, human review, and exception ownership are agreed.

Governed operating model

One control plane from tool selection to continuous improvement

The practice aligns engineering, platform, security, and adoption decisions instead of treating licenses, training, and governance as separate workstreams.

01

Assess and select

Evaluate engineering maturity, repository risk, and tool fit across GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor before committing to an enterprise platform bet.

02

Pilot with controls

Run bounded secure pilots with approved repositories, instruction files, security gates, training, and baseline metrics that prove value without widening blast radius.

03

Scale the operating model

Roll out identity, policies, MCP controls, champions, analytics, and governance so agentic workflows become a managed enterprise capability — not shadow IT.

04

Govern and improve

Codify approved tools and models, human-review requirements, audit trails, and continuous optimization for productivity, cost, and security posture.

Engagements

Start with the decision your engineering organization needs to make

Core engagements establish readiness and pilot direction. Specialist extensions add repository intelligence, MCP integration, DevSecOps workflows, or governance depth.

Core engagementsAssessment → pilot → rollout

AI Coding Readiness Assessment

Engineering maturity, repository classification, data-handling review, security posture, use-case prioritization, tool shortlist, and an adoption roadmap with an initial value model.

Book readiness assessment

AI Coding Tool Evaluation

Structured comparison of GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor across codebase understanding, security, administration, integration, cost, and auditability.

Request tool evaluation

Secure Engineering Pilot

One or two teams, approved repositories and workflows, repository instructions, security controls, training, baseline metrics, and a pilot report leadership can act on.

Plan a secure pilot

Enterprise Rollout

Identity and access, team configuration, approved models, repository onboarding, MCP controls, security policies, champions, analytics, and a durable operating model.

Design enterprise rollout
Specialist extensionsContext · MCP · DevSecOps · governance

Repository Intelligence

AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, Copilot instructions, Cursor rules, architecture guidance, security rules, and pull-request standards that make agents reliable on your codebases.

Improve repository intelligence

MCP Integration Factory

Use-case discovery, MCP server design, schemas, authZ, audit, approval workflows, client integration, testing, documentation, and support for production MCP tooling.

Build MCP integrations

Agentic DevSecOps

Agent-assisted issue analysis, test generation, PR creation, code and security review, dependency updates, CI failure analysis, vulnerability triage, and runbook generation.

Transform DevSecOps

Developer AI Governance

Approved tool and model matrices, repository classification, source-code handling, MCP and command-execution policy, human-review rules, audit requirements, and incident handling.

Establish governance

Delivery lifecycle

Move from readiness to governed scale with explicit outputs

Each phase resolves a different enterprise decision and leaves an artifact the next phase can use.

01

Assess readiness and tool fit

Evaluate engineering maturity, repository risk, data handling, and platform fit.

Readiness scorecard
02

Design pilot boundaries

Define approved repositories, agent permissions, MCP boundaries, review gates, and success measures.

Pilot charter
03

Enable teams and repositories

Run the pilot with repository guidance, applied training, office hours, and measurement.

Operating playbook
04

Scale and govern

Expand through policy, champions, analytics, control ownership, and an optimization cadence.

Scale roadmap

Start here

Shape a governed agentic software engineering program

Share your coding-tool landscape, repository constraints, security posture, and rollout goals. We’ll help determine the right assessment, pilot, or governance path.

Tool evaluation
Secure pilot design
MCP and governance
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