Inside the ADLC: How an AI-Native Development Lifecycle Works

Claude Code as the operator of a spec-driven pipeline - skills, agents, retrieval, autonomy contract, parallelism, and cross-repo coordination. Patterns (photo marathon day 2) | Teunie van Hernan | CC BY 2.0 Repo: The ADLC - Agentic Development Lifecycle - is a spec-driven pipeline that takes a feature request from “someone typed a paragraph in Slack” to “the PR is merged and the service is deployed,” with Claude Code doing the driving. It is not a copilot pattern. It is not code-suggestions-with-human-in-the-loop.