The latest articles on DEV Community by Djordje Puzic (@vectorintel). https://dev.to/vectorintel https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4065618%2Fd4bb41a9-4732-4550-8bd9-20714192e8ce.png https://dev.to/vectorintel en Djordje Puzic Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:42:35 +0000 https://dev.to/vectorintel/version-control-for-decisions-why-ai-native-agencies-need-change-control-cah https://dev.to/vectorintel/version-control-for-decisions-why-ai-native-agencies-need-change-control-cah <p>AI coding agents are getting better every month. Most agency delivery failures I see are not model failures.</p> <p>They are <strong>decision drift</strong>.</p> <p>A client changes a constraint in Slack. A senior engineer encodes a different assumption in a PR. An agent invents a third version of the truth because every session starts cold. Rework follows.</p> <h2> What “change-control” means here </h2> <p>Think less chatbot history, more <strong>version control for decisions</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Capture decisions and constraints with provenance (who said what, where, when)</li> <li>Detect conflicts before they become rework</li> <li>Keep humans as the authority on what becomes project truth</li> <li>Give coding agents a live preflight against that truth (MCP helps)</li> </ul> <h2> A practical stack shape </h2> <p>For 3–15 person shops shipping with Cursor / Claude Code / MCP clients, the useful layer is:</p> <ol> <li> <strong>Ingest</strong> — Slack, GitHub, docs, voice notes into project-scoped memory</li> <li> <strong>Reconstruct</strong> — current state with supersedes-aware retrieval</li> <li> <strong>Arbitrate</strong> — owners resolve conflicts; only approved updates become truth</li> <li> <strong>Expose</strong> — agents query constraints before they act</li> </ol> <p>Self-host + BYOK matters when client project data cannot sit on a random vendor SaaS.</p> <h2> Where I’m putting this </h2> <p>I’m building <strong>Accord Book</strong> around that shape: self-hosted AI memory and change-control for AI-native agency teams.</p> <p>Product page: <a href="https://vector-intelligence.io/accord-book/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://vector-intelligence.io/accord-book/</a></p> <p>Founding pilot: <a href="https://vector-intelligence.io/pilot/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://vector-intelligence.io/pilot/</a></p> <p>If you’re an agency owner wearing tech-lead + PM + client-translator hats at once, I’d love to hear where decision drift hits you hardest.</p> ai productivity mcp agents