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About David Matousek

Bio

Headshot of David Matousek, author of the AOD methodology

I'm David Matousek, based in Boston, MA, and the author of Agentic-Oriented Development, a governance methodology for AI-assisted software delivery. I've spent more than 20 years in cybersecurity, and I built AOD because I needed it for my own work: a way to keep agent-assisted SDLC honest under the pressure that lets vibe coding through the gate.

The methodology is shipped in the AOD-Kit GitHub repository: the template, the constitution, the lifecycle commands, and the Triad governance pattern (PM, then Architect, then Team-Lead sign-offs on every spec, plan, and tasks artifact). The most practical application I have built using it is Tachi, a working project that exercises the lifecycle end-to-end. I write about the same problems on Medium @davidmatousek; recent pieces include "From Context to Knowledge," "Test-Driven Development for Agents," and "Evals and Loops." For longer-form context, davidmatousek.com.

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The book

Agentic-Oriented Development is also a long-form article series — the thinking behind the methodology, chapter by chapter. The series covers governance, the Triad, the SDLC lifecycle, and the practitioner trade-offs that shaped each lock. Read the chapters in order if you want the full arc, or skim the index below.

  1. Agentic-Oriented Development
    Published
  2. Context Windows Are the New Memory Management
    Published
  3. Tools Are the New Methods
    Published
  4. Designing Your Agent's Inheritance Chain
    Published
  5. One Prompt, Many Specialists
    Published
  6. From Prompt Engineer to Agentic Engineer
    Published
  7. Process Mastery
    Published
  8. Orchestration
    Published
  9. Evals and Loops
    Published
  10. Test-Driven Development for Agents
    Published
  11. From Context to Knowledge
    Published
  12. Connecting Agents Through MCP
    Published
  13. Measuring AOD Success
    Published
  14. The Agent System Topology
    Published
  15. The Protocol Stack
    Published
  16. The Agent Factory
    Published
  17. Facades and Composition
    Published
  18. Escalation Chains
    Published
  19. AOD Anti-Patterns
    Published
  20. Enterprise AOD
    Coming soon
  21. The Harness Landscape and the Path Forward
    Coming soon
  22. Conclusion
    Coming soon