Savante outlines 12-stage software supply chain

Establishing clear boundaries where autonomous agents stop and human accountability begins represents the most viable operational framework for real-world software engineering today.

• –Pragmatic division of labor: Confining autonomous agents to the inner development loop (architecting, coding, testing, staging, and documentation) maximizes execution speed while preventing unvetted code from reaching end users.
• –Risk containment: Gating sensitive responsibilities like financial agreements, repository access, and production releases behind human sign-off mitigates enterprise liability and security exposure.
• –Built-in feedback loops: The pipeline formalizes structured client review and market feedback cycles that automatically route issues back to the coding stage before final handoff.
• –Blueprint for agentic studios: Provides a realistic model for how software development firms can integrate autonomous AI agents into client delivery pipelines without compromising production reliability.