[ Competency domains ]
FDE-04 · Provider-portable AI systems engineering
Engineer context, instructions, tools, state, and control flow as testable contracts that can survive a change of model, provider, or runtime.
- Elaboration
- Selects a model and architecture from measured task needs, not a default vendor preference. Starts with the simplest adequate deterministic or single-agent design and adds coordination only when evidence requires it. Keeps provider-specific capabilities behind narrow adapters with normalized errors and traces. Runs an unchanged task harness across alternative configurations and records behavioral differences.
- Source record
- Forward-Deployed Engineering Standard FDE-S/1.0, competency FDE-04
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[ Where this is discussed ]
- Before you blame the model, inspect the contractENGINEERING · Aug 25, 2026
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