Building Your First UAPK Manifest: A Step-by-Step Guide Most AI deployments fail governance not at the model level but at the integration layer. The agent runs, the action executes, and nobody defined what it was allowed to do or to whom it was accountable. A UAPK manifest solves this by encoding identity, capability scope, and policy constraints into a single structured artifact that the runtime can enforce and the auditor can read. This guide walks through building that manifest from scratch. By the end, you will have a working document that registers an agent identity, binds it to specific capability tokens, and enforces approval thresholds before any consequential action executes. Why Manifest-First Matters Before You Write a Single Line Most teams reach for the agent framework first. They configure the model, wire up the tool calls, test the outputs, and then ask the governance question after the system is already running in staging. At that point, retrofitting constraints is expensive.…