Governance-as-Code: How UPDSS Governs AI Agents Building Production Software
AI agents can write production code. That’s no longer the interesting question. The interesting question is: can you trust what they ship? UPDSS (Universal Product Development Support System) is a governance-as-code platform for AI-agent-driven software development. Not a project management tool. Not a CI/CD pipeline. Not an AI coding assistant. It’s the control plane that ensures AI agents write code with traceability, quality gates, and human oversight at every stage. I’ve spent the last eight days running it across six products, directing nine AI agents through a tmux terminal, shipping 50+ releases for roughly $500 in API costs. This article describes what we built, how it works, and what we’ve learned. ...