john mark lowry
§ ai tools · 2026

the knowledge spine

One version-controlled source of truth for PO ways-of-working — serving four different agent CLIs and the tools built on top.

team one internal system. pack contents are internal; the architecture is the story.

the short version

The shared skill-and-context system underneath the fleet: topic-organized markdown packs (the PO framework, agency ways of working, platform context, a glossary) plus installable skills for ticket operations — consumed identically by four different agent CLIs through one-line imports, and by production tools like the intake bot, which git-pulls and indexes it as its domain brain.

The discipline that makes it work: do the real PO work first, then distill it — tickets became the ticketing skill, one migration became the migration guide, an auth build became the auth blueprint. The repo is governed like software because it is software: versioned, schema-validated, contributed to by PR.

Full case study in progress — artifacts pending clearance or writing time. The insight below is already earned.

Skills route; packs hold the truth. One maintained source of knowledge serving every agent beats four copies quietly drifting apart.

the insight
ran onmarkdown content packs · installable skills (agentskills spec) · JSON Schema validation · SemVer + PR governance

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