Glossary · Foundations
What you version next to the code—rules, MCP tools, sub-agents, policies, and verification hooks—that manufactures patches, tests, migrations, and docs from structured intent; you implement and review the factory, the factory implements the feature-shaped output.
AI factory (also AI factory design pattern in workshop curriculum) is the versioned production system you keep beside application code: repo rules, MCP tools, sub-agents, factory policies, and verification hooks that turn structured intent into patches, tests, migrations, and docs.
You implement and review the factory; the factory implements the feature output. That framing is EasySpecs Labs workshop vocabulary—related to but not identical to the industry term Software factory or the short AI factory pattern metaphor summary.
See also: Production line, Workstation, Non-interactive delivery.