ECIA
Engagement Context Information Architecture.
ECIA is the information architecture standard we apply at the start of every engagement. It ensures that everything we learn about a client's environment — their tooling, constraints, decisions, and preferences — is structured for agent consumption from day one. When the engagement ends, the ECIA package is what we hand off. It's the thing that makes it possible for an AI agent to pick up where a human engineer left off.
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Canonical schema for engagement context: environment, constraints, decisions, relationships
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Designed for agent-first consumption — structured for retrieval, not just reading
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Milestone snapshots that capture state at each phase transition
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Tooling glossary and integration map for new-agent onboarding
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Light enough to maintain in a Markdown vault, powerful enough to drive AI context
Designed as internal standard for all engagements
Published as framework brief — used in 6+ engagements
Iterated per engagement, spec remains stable
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