CLAUDE.md Is Not Enough: The Governance Stack for Agentic Development

This article was originally published on EthereaLogic.ai . The standard advice for governing AI coding agents is "write a good CLAUDE.md." That is like saying the standard advice for software quality is "write good code." Both are true. Neither is sufficient. I have been building production AI tools with agentic coding as the primary implementation workflow for roughly five months. In conversations with engineering leaders evaluating AI adoption, three concerns surface consistently and in the sa