Product Narrative
Modern software teams are beginning to use agents to make real changes to real codebases. The problem is not simply whether the agent can write code. The problem is whether the agent understands what the team is trying to preserve.
Product tools can tell an agent which user outcome matters. Design tools can tell it how the experience should behave. Workflow tools can tell it how to run, verify, retry, and commit the work. But the developer's intent is still too often hidden in code shape, naming, tests, conventions, old scars, and PR comments.
Alloy makes that intent explicit.
It captures the capabilities developers are protecting, the threats they are watching for, the future changes they expect, the strategies they prefer, the evidence they require, and the tradeoffs they accept. It helps developers express that knowledge through conversation and codebase archaeology. Then it compiles the result into Foundryformation briefs, prompt packs, evidence plans, and gate overlays.
Alloy does not ask developers to write more tickets. It does not put plumbing into the product backlog. It does not turn architecture into static paperwork.
It gives autonomous engineering systems the judgement they need before they act.
Related: Vision · Executive Summary · Engineering Intent Records · Product Thesis
Source: Product Brief §31 (Draft Product Narrative).