AI coding governance framework for engineering teams

Governing AI Coding Tools Across an Engineering Team

TL;DR AI coding tools are now default behavior for most developers, not an experiment. If you manage a team and you haven’t formalized this, you have ungoverned spend, security exposure, and inconsistent behavior happening right now. The fix isn’t to take the tools away — it’s to pick one, pay for it centrally, encode your policies into the AI itself using instruction files and skills, and govern the control folder rather than individual usage. Here’s the framework I’d implement. ...

March 3, 2026 · 10 min · zolty

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