Agent development does not end at deployment. An agent has to be registered as a production actor, bound to a versioned contract, evaluated before release, promoted deliberately, controlled while it runs, and continuously assessed against real production behavior.
Cogward connects those stages through one lifecycle record, so the identity, authority, policy, evidence, and outcomes of each production run inform what ships next.
This page describes the governed lifecycle as an operating model. See the capability map for what is available today, in preview, and planned.
Because Cogward knows which version ran, under whose authority, with which tools and policies, and what happened as a result, production evidence can drive release gates, rollback, containment, and the next agent version. The loop is closed by the same runtime that governs execution, not reconstructed afterward from disconnected logs.
Preserved across every stage
Teams keep their preferred framework, repository, and models. Cogward governs everything around the agent, from the moment it is declared to the decision about what ships next.
Build the agent in the framework and repository your team already uses. Cogward does not replace the development framework.
Registration mints the agent's stable identity and creates its production contract, the binding declaration of how it is allowed to run.
Convert the agent and its contract into an immutable candidate version. Behavior changes without a code change, so the version binds more than a container image.
Assess the candidate against expected scenarios and policy constraints. The result becomes promotion evidence rather than a test report.
Promote an approved version through controlled environments and tenant-specific rollout, with a rollback target ready.
Run each session with its identity, authority, state, policy, approvals, and evidence bound throughout the trajectory.
Measure the trajectories production actually creates, against the exact version, tenant, authority, and policy behind them.
Turn production evidence into a decision about the current version and the next one. Improve returns to Version for a new candidate, or to Author for deeper change.
Every production run is attributable to the exact version, tenant, and authority behind it, so the evidence it generates can decide what happens next.
The contract declared at registration is inherited by every version and enforced at runtime. It is the single reference the whole lifecycle is measured against.
Bring an agent, its deployment constraints, and the production requirements your customers are asking about. We will map them to what Cogward supports today and what can be completed together through a design-partner engagement.