StandardCraftCR-005Reviewed Aug 2026

Standardise the layer beneath the tools, not the tools

Build a shared internal platform — access layer, LLM routing, MCP servers, standards — rather than letting every engineer's agent be a private artifact.

WHY IT HOLDS

Shared infrastructure means lessons compound across the org instead of dying with each private session, and centralised routing gives cost control and observability without forcing anyone onto a particular editor. Cloudflare reports weekly merge requests rising from roughly 5,600 to over 8,700 after rollout, with 93% R&D adoption inside a year.

WHAT IT PREVENTS

Fragmented, unaccountable, unobservable agent use.

ADOPTED BY

2 organisations

Cloudflare, Shopify

CAVEATS ON THE EVIDENCE

Metrics are self-reported and unaudited

SOURCES

START HEREThe AI engineering stack we built internallyBlog · Cloudflare · Apr 2026

BlogUnder the RiverShopify · adopted by · May 2026

RING HISTORY

Aug 2026 — set to Standard. Two large orgs reached this independently. Metrics are self-reported.

DOES THE PRACTICE WORK FOR YOU?

Field reports are not open yet. When they are, you will be able to sign in with GitHub and record whether this practice held on your stack — one report per person, so the counts mean something. Nothing is collected here in the meantime.