# AIES — AI Engineering Standard

> Open, vendor-neutral community standard and handbook for production AI delivery.

Site: https://open-ai-engineering-standards.vercel.app
Repository: https://github.com/grvmithas/open-ai-engineering-standards
Steward: Gaurav Mithas (https://open-ai-engineering-standards.vercel.app/about)

## Primary entry points

- / — Product homepage (mission, capabilities, adoption roadmap)
- /docs/README — Documentation index
- /docs/handbook/README — Practitioner handbook
- /docs/principles — Engineering principles
- /docs/roadmap — Adoption roadmap
- /docs/08-ai-sdlc/README — AIDLC / AI SDLC
- /docs/patterns/README — Operational AI engineering patterns
- /portal — Normative controls & standards portal
- /about — Steward profile and contact

## Topics covered

AIDLC, AI SDLC, prompt engineering, context engineering, skills vs agents, MCP, memory/RAG, evaluation gates, LLMOps, HITL, hooks, enterprise governance, org playbooks.

## Optional

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