AI Agent Context Layer

Your agents are slow and wrong,
for the same reason.

Without a shared context layer, every agent reconstructs your system on every call, crawling repos, grepping docs, querying ServiceNow, Archer, and your scanners, burning time and tokens, and still landing on a stale, partial picture.

DevGrid serves the live engineering graph and your rules instantly, pre-assembled, so agents skip the re-fetch and act on the truth the first time.

Faster, cheaper, and right.

One graph · two consumerslive
Your people
EAArchitectPLPlatform LeadENEngineerPMProduct Manager
Your AI agents
ClaudeCodexCursorCopilotGrokOpenCodeCustom agent
access via MCP · API
DEVGRID CONTEXT LAYER
GROUND·SCOPE·ACT·REVIEW
servicesownershipvulnerabilitiespoliciesstandardsNFRs
Live engineering graphupdated 2m ago
The Problem

AI moves fast. It also moves
on the wrong context.

Architecture knowledge is in one tool. Ownership in another. Dependencies, runtime, vulnerabilities, EOL, and the policies that govern them are scattered across several more.

Agents infer across the fragments and return confident answers that miss what matters: the service that's actually deployed, the owner who actually exists, the NFR they just violated. Teams are rolling out agents faster than their architecture knowledge can keep up.

architecture.wiki
last edited 14 mo ago
cmdb-export.xlsx
owner column empty
README.md
references v1 endpoints
#eng-standards
policy buried in thread
Agent infers across fragments
“confidently wrong,” and nothing flags it
The Hidden Tax

Ungrounded agents aren't fast.
They pay a tax on every call.

Re-deriving context per invocation costs three ways. Latency (the agent crawls before it acts), tokens (you pay to re-read the same repos and docs again and again), and drift(each reconstruction is slightly different, so results aren't reproducible, a problem of its own in a regulated shop). Centralize context once and serve it to every agent, and the tax disappears. The agent starts from the answer instead of working toward it.

Per-call context costone prompt · what it takes to act
Ungrounded
crawl reposgrep docsquery ServiceNowquery Archerquery scannersinferact
~42s · ~18.2k tokens · wrong
Grounded
request contextactserved pre-assembled
~1.2s · ~1.4k tokens · right
35×
faster to act
92%
fewer tokens per call
0
drift. reproducible every time
Same prompt. Two outcomes.

The difference isn't the model.
It's the context.

Upgrade the logging library in the payments service.developer prompt
Ungrounded agentGrounded by DevGrid
Ungrounded agentFLAGGED
latency 42stokens 18.2kre-crawled this call
Targets payments-svc-legacy, retired 8 months ago, not deployed
Picks log4j 1.x, violates approved-library standard STD-114
No owner identified, change lands on a service nobody maintains
Commits direct, no review path, no audit trail
The difference isn't the model. It's the context.
The Mechanism

Ground → Scope → Act → Review.

The only context layer that makes your agents faster, and right.

01GROUND

Live context, pre-assembled and served instantly.

Services, dependencies, ownership, health, vulnerabilities, EOL, plus architecture decisions, standards, and NFRs. Fetched once, not re-crawled on every call.

02SCOPE

Only the context the task needs.

Task-scoped delivery for incident triage, migration, or dependency upgrade, so agents act with precision, not a context dump.

03ACT

Your tools write the fix. DevGrid makes them right.

Plug into Claude, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and internal automations via MCP, API, or native integration. DevGrid doesn't replace them, it grounds them.

04REVIEW

Approvals stay where they already live.

Checks, approvals, and rejection paths stay in your existing CI, policy engines, and human review. Closure flows back into the graph automatically.

Your Rules, Scoped

The right rules, for the
task in front of them.

Anyone's agent can read a repo. What it can't read is your encoded rules: architecture decisions, standards, NFRs, security policies. DevGrid doesn't dump all of them on the agent. It selects the ones that apply to the task in front of it, personalized per prompt: a logging change pulls a different set than a data migration would.

Encoded once. Scoped to every prompt. Enforced on every action.
Upgrade the logging library in payments-apithis task
142 active4 apply herescoped by service, domain & data class
STD-114Approved-library standardmatched: logging
NFR-22Log-retention requirementmatched: logging
ADR-0091Structured-logging patternmatched: logging
SEC-POL-7Data-residency policymatched: payments / EU
NOT INVOKEDDB-STD-30UI-A11Y-4NET-POL-12not relevant to this task
Your agents don't guess your rules, and they don't drown in all 142. They're handed the ones that apply.
Governance

Scale AI across the bank
without scaring Risk.

The mandate is to turn executive AI ambition into measurable engineering output, while giving risk, security, architecture, and audit enough confidence that the program won't blow back on them.

DevGrid is the control point: every agent grounded in real system state and your actual policies, every action traceable, every review in your existing path.

Agent action · policy-check trail
action #a8f2 · payments-api
CLEARED
Approved-library standard STD-114 satisfied
Logging-retention NFR NFR-22 respected
Owner @architecture-core notified
Audit lineage recorded: action → review → closure
routed → CI checks · policy engine · human review
Who Relies On This

Two people carry the risk.
One context layer covers them both.

AE
AI Enablement Leader
economic buyer · exec-sponsored
The pressure

The board wants AI everywhere by Q3. Risk wants proof it won't end up in a supervisory finding. I'm the one standing between them.

What DevGrid gives them

A single place to distribute the right instructions (your standards, policies, and live system state) to every agent, with a governance story Risk will sign off on.

one ruleset, every agentinstructions pushed automatically
PE
Platform Engineering Lead
champion · owns the golden paths
The pressure

Every team wants a different agent wired to a different tool. I can't hand-plumb context to all of them and still keep the paths golden.

What DevGrid gives them

One context layer wired once into the golden paths, instead of plumbing every tool to every agent.

wire once, reuse everywhereMCP · API · native
Coexistence

Bring your own agents.

DevGrid is the context layer, not another copilot.

Any AI coding / ops tool
ClaudeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGrokOpenCodeCustom agent
MCP · API
DEVGRID CONTEXT LAYER
Live graph + your rules,
scoped to the task
GROUNDSCOPEACTREVIEW
routed
Your existing path
CI pipelinePolicy engineSecurity toolingHuman review

Give your agents the context
they've been missing.