Context-Driven Engineering

Context-Driven Engineering (CDE) treats context as the primary engineering artifact and code as a derived outcome, especially in AI-assisted development. The goal is simple: make design intent explicit enough that both humans and AI agents can work reliably.

CDE focuses on:

Explicit design intent (vision, specs, architecture, constraints)
Coherent documentation that is usable as execution context
Reliable collaboration between humans and AI coding agents

Reference repo on GitHub

CDE is intentionally worldview-agnostic. The reference repository includes an Object-Centric Design Worldview as a worked example of an explicit design worldview, plus a set of practical agent rules in AGENTS.md.

If you’re looking for a framework, this probably isn’t it. If you’re looking for a way to make AI-assisted engineering safer and more coherent, you’re in the right place.