ISO as deterministic infrastructure around agent workflows

ISO has grown into the part of my agent work I care about most: taking the rules that usually live as fragile prompt prose and turning them into build steps, checks, and runtime packages.

The current shape is broader than "write instructions once." It fans one agent harness out to tools like Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, and Pi, then keeps the workflow honest with packages for routing, linting, context selection, artifact caching, fact extraction, scoring, timelines, prioritization, lineage, preflight and postflight checks, redaction, migrations, role capabilities, contracts, and an append-only ledger.

That is the direction I want more AI tooling to move in. Less magic in the prompt, more deterministic machinery around the model. The model can still do the open-ended work, but the operating system around it should carry the boring invariants.