As engineering organizations grow, getting everyone to work on the same software starts to get unwieldy. Everybody has their own quirks and styles, which can lead to a Tower of Babel implemented as a service-oriented architecture. So leadership folks came up with ticketing systems, scrum, and deployment pipelines to bring some consistency to the process. For the code itself, they wrote coding standards and guidelines. In 2026, software engineers are writing less and less code by hand. Instead, they use coding agents to write code based on their designs. But if those agents contribute to an enterprise code base, then they need to follow the standards and guidelines. Fortunately, most of the code generators have implemented ways to add standards and guidelines to your agents. The catch is that it’s not the same as onboarding a new junior developer. You can’t just throw a few documents at them and let them explore. Agents are fast but lack the context of your code.…