AI ENGINEERING · GOVERNANCE, SECURITY & COST

Your AI spend and your blast radius were set by an engineer on a deadline.

Build scenarios where the fast path works, ships, and sends the bill, the breach or the audit finding later.

Why it feels different

A build environment, not a quiz.

The fast path always works — first

Every scenario starts with a build that passes, demos well and is defensible in the standup.

Production answers back

The consequence arrives as a cost dashboard, a trace, a DLP alert or an auditor’s question — not as a "correct answer" panel.

You fix what you shipped

The rework screen is where the score is won. Contain, gate, and write the standing control.

One engineering standard per simulation

Written so a platform team can enforce it in CI. Tested more than once across the library.

What it covers

Three things set in code.

Cost

Model routing, task-to-model fit, cache economics, context discipline, budget caps and cost attribution.

Security

Untrusted input, tool permissions, irreversible actions, egress control, kill switches.

Governance

Data access and identity propagation, lineage, evaluation gates, version pinning, release records.

Simulation library

The simulation library.

Every one is an ordinary build task where the fast path works first.

A

Model Economics & Cost Control

Routing, context, cache and budget guards

B

Agent Security & Action Control

Untrusted input, tool permissions, irreversible actions

C

Data & Access Governance

Identity, masking, lineage and audit

Participant journey

From first build to a decision record.

1

Create your profile and engineering role

2

Open the build console for your seat

3

Take the ticket as it comes

4

Open the evidence — the trace, the config, the bill — or don’t, and it shows

5

Build, and record why

6

Watch it run in production

7

Fix, gate, and write the standing control

8

See where you stand by category

For leadership

What you hold at the end.

Not an attendance sheet.

1

An engineering standard set your platform team can enforce in CI

2

Cost discipline by decision — where spend is chosen, not where it is reported

3

Blast-radius readiness — who gates irreversible actions and who does not

4

A named gap list by role: agent developers, platform engineers, tech leads

Bring one agent you already run.

Run the team that built it through the same decisions and see the record.