Need Discoverability Not Just Governance
Pat realizes the organization has been focused on governance when the actual problem is that teams can't find what already exists.
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Persona Story:
Pat, the head of platforms, realizes the organization has been focused on governance and classification when the actual problem is that teams can’t find what already exists.
Problem Context
- Teams naturally reuse OSS and cloud services by searching, evaluating docs, adoption, and ease of onboarding
- Internal reuse should follow the same pattern but doesn’t
- “The organization has a discoverability problem, not a reuse or governance problem”
Problem Impact
- Effort goes into classifying and quantifying reuse rather than making things findable
- Teams build new capabilities because they can’t discover existing ones
- Developer experience suffers—6-week lead times even for Tier 1 systems with SLAs
Naftiko Today
- Backstage integration via Fleet registers capabilities in a searchable catalog, making internal APIs findable the same way developers find OSS libraries
- Agent Skills exposure with auto-exposed HTTP APIs for discovery and download lets developers (and agents) browse available capabilities without knowing where to look
- MCP tool exposure means AI copilots can discover and invoke capabilities directly, turning “search for docs” into “ask the agent what’s available”
- Executable YAML specs with clear namespaces make each capability self-describing, so discovery leads directly to understanding and use
Naftiko Tomorrow
- Naftiko Shipyard MVP (Second Alpha) would provide a fleet-wide capability registry purpose-built for browsing and discovering what exists
- Fabric capability discovery (v1.1) would enable cross-team and cross-organization capability discovery, solving discoverability at enterprise scale
- Tech Radar plugin (GA) would surface capability maturity and adoption status, helping teams evaluate what to reuse
- Capability scaffolding from existing APIs (Second Alpha) would make it easy to register existing internal APIs into the discoverable catalog