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Engineering Knowledge System

v0.4.0/Active Development

Core Principles10

AI Engineering4

Templates Case Studies Research Changelog

ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM

AZOTH

v0.4.0Active Development

Engineering Knowledge System

A living collection of engineering principles, standards, architecture decisions, templates, and lessons learned from building real software.

7

Domains

44

Documents

2026-07-01

Last Updated

The Constitution

Core Principles

The foundational values that guide every engineering decision in AZOTH. Every standard, template and decision in AZOTH ultimately traces back to one of these.

01Think in Systems

02Quality by Design

03Optimize for Maintainability

04Simplicity over Cleverness

05Build for Humans

06Automate Repetitive Work

07Solve Root Causes

08Continuous Refinement

09Engineering is Collaborative

10Own the Outcome

Engineering Domains

7 MODULES

Development

How we write, branch, review and document code day to day.

Architecture

Designing systems, APIs, data and access control that last.

Operations

Shipping, running and observing software in production.

Quality

A library of focused practices for gating work, testing it, handling defects, and measuring quality.

AI Engineering

Working effectively and safely with coding agents and LLMs.

Leadership

Growing people, making decisions and owning outcomes.

Frameworks

Reusable engineering frameworks and foundations.

Reference & Meta

What AZOTH is, how it is organised, and how to navigate the knowledge system.

Reusable starting points: ADRs, RFCs, PR descriptions, incident reports and more.

ResearchPlanned

Real-world write-ups of systems built, problems solved and trade-offs made.

ResearchPlanned

Open explorations, experiments and ideas that are not yet standards.

A chronological record of additions and changes to the knowledge system.

Search AZOTH

Search documents and domains across the knowledge system.