paved road

A paved road is a set of recommended tools, templates, configurations and procedures that an organization prepares so that software built along it meets security, operations and compliance requirements by default. The term is used in platform engineering and security and is close in meaning to a golden path.

Its goal is to make the easiest path the secure one rather than to force developers into a single method. Where AI agents write code, a paved road may be offered as APIs or tools that agents can call instead of as documentation.

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