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Also known as: Thread-Based Agentic Experience Engineering, TBE + AXD, Agentic Product Engineering
Unified framework connecting Thread-Based Engineering (governance) with Agentic Experience Design (trust). Maps thread autonomy levels (B through Z) to supervision patterns (in-the-loop, on-the-loop, out-of-the-loop). Quality gates become trust signals. Thread lifecycles become conversation flows.
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