Daniel Meppiel
I work on the methodology and tools for building software with AI agents at enterprise scale.
I'm a Software Global Black Belt at Microsoft and the creator of APM (Agent Package Manager) — the open-source tool teams use to manage AI agent configurations the way they manage code. I designed the PROSE framework for writing agent specifications that hold up in production, and I wrote The Agentic SDLC Handbook to put the whole methodology in one place.
Before Microsoft: GitHub, Sonar, four years as CTO and co-founder of WeGaw, and earlier engineering work at CERN.
🔭 What I'm working on now
- 📘 The Agentic SDLC Handbook — released as a pre-release edition; shipping refinements and new case studies continuously.
- 📦 microsoft/apm — Agent Package Manager.
apm install,apm compile. The 2-command pattern Fortune 500 teams are adopting. - 📐 microsoft/agentrc — Get your repo ready for AI. The companion convention for instrumenting codebases.
- 🧬 genesis — an architect's discipline for designing agentic systems across primitives (skills, agents, instructions, orchestrators, plans). Markdown that steers an LLM is code — design it before you write it. Portable across Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex.
- ✍️ The AI-Native Mind — short essays on what AI-native development looks like once the demo ends.
Updated monthly. If this is stale, I owe you a coffee.
🧰 Pinned work — the throughline
Three tools → the methodology → proof of range.
| Project | Why it's here |
|---|---|
| microsoft/apm | Agent Package Manager. How AI agent capabilities are packaged, versioned, and shared across teams. |
| microsoft/agentrc | The convention for getting a codebase ready to be worked on by AI agents. |
| genesis | An architect's discipline for designing agentic systems — across skills, agents, instructions, orchestrators, plans. Harness-portable. |
| agentic-sdlc-handbook | The book that ties all three together — written using the methodology it teaches. |
| awesome-ai-native | The PROSE framework, distilled. Start here if you're a practitioner. |
| meeting-2-code | End-to-end proof: Teams meeting → shipped Azure feature, fully agentic. |
| oracle-mcp-server | MCP server for very large Oracle schemas — serious engineering outside the AI-native bubble. |
🎙️ Speaking & writing
I talk about what changes — for the org, the codebase, and the developer's day — when AI coding agents become a real part of how software gets built.
- 📕 The Agentic SDLC Handbook — free online, PDF, EPUB
- 🧠 theainativemind.com — newsletter & essays
- 💬 Want me to talk to your team or at your event? DM me on LinkedIn.
A note on the journey
I don't think anyone has this fully figured out yet — including me. APM, agentrc, and genesis were born from ingenuity and breaking things, and they're evolving fast. If you're building in this space, I'd genuinely love to compare notes.
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Opinions here are my own and don't represent my employer.