Need Governance Rules in Coding Assistants
Governance rules need to be available directly in developers' coding assistants and AI agents, not just in standalone tools and pipelines.
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Persona Story:
Riley, the head of APIs, wants governance rules (Spectral, linting) available directly in developers’ coding assistants and AI agents, not just in standalone tools.
Problem Context
- Spectral plugins exist for IDEs but installing them, getting the right rules, and keeping rules updated is a problem
- Teams maintain rules in multiple places: Stoplight Enterprise, IDE plugins, CI/CD pipelines
- “The less we have to install in each IDE to execute those rules, the better”
Problem Impact
- Inconsistent governance enforcement across design tools, IDEs, and pipelines
- Teams unknowingly use outdated governance rules
- Governance becomes a “safety net” in pipelines rather than shift-left design-first approach
Naftiko Today
- MCP exposure lets AI coding assistants discover and invoke governed capabilities as tools, embedding governance at the point of use
- Agent Skills exposure groups business-level skills over MCP tools, giving copilots structured, governed context rather than raw API access
- VS Code Extension with live YAML validation enforces Spectral governance rules directly in the developer’s editor
- OutputParameters normalization layer ensures raw API payloads never reach the LLM, enforcing data governance automatically
Naftiko Tomorrow
- VS Code Agent Plugin with Naftiko Skills preset (Fleet Second Alpha) would deliver governed rules directly into coding assistant workflows
- Tool annotations for readOnly/destructive/idempotent (Second Alpha) would let AI agents respect governance constraints at invocation time
- OpenAPI-to-Naftiko import (Second Alpha) would let teams wrap existing governed APIs as MCP tools without duplicating rule management
- Starter templates (Second Alpha) would provide pre-governed capability patterns teams can adopt immediately