What I learned building an agent platform that actually ships

I built an agent platform. Not a demo — an actual platform where every tool call is governed, audited, and scoped to a workspace.

Here's what I learned.

Every skill is a first-class citizen

The platform has 27 skills across 7 groups — platform ops, publishing (dev.to, LinkedIn), testing (a full TEA suite with risk matrices, baseline characterization, NFR audits), communication (Slack, Telegram, Gmail), knowledge (RAG + persistent memory), development, and scraping.

Skills aren't just prompts. Each one has a governed lifecycle: create, validate, version, insert into workspaces. No stray scripts.