The open specification for AI-Driven Development Lifecycle.
AIDDLC defines how teams should structure software development when AI participates in the development process itself. It answers the question every AI tooling vendor has avoided: not which tools to use, but how to work.
It is tooling-agnostic. It works with any AI model, any IDE, any cloud. Its value is in the structure and the principles — two organisations using completely different AI stacks should produce recognisably AIDDLC-compliant processes.
→ AIDDLC-Standard-v1.0.md — full specification, rendered on GitHub
→ aiddlc.ai/spec — hosted reference, always current
| Reference portal | aiddlc.ai/portal · interactive, phase-by-phase guidance |
| Certification | aiddlc.ai/certification · founding cohort open |
| Contributing | CONTRIBUTING.md |
| Examples | github.com/aiddlc/examples |
AIDDLC-Standard-v1.0.md ← The specification
CHANGELOG.md ← Version history
decisions/ ← Architectural Board decision records
001-founding-principles.md
annexes/ ← Normative and informative annexes
certification-criteria.md
compliance-mapping.md ← Named regulatory mappings
product-track-community.md ← Open contribution areas
v1.x normative requirements will not break until v3.0 at earliest. Patch and minor updates are backwards-compatible by definition.
AIDDLC follows MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH versioning. A breaking change requires a 90-day public review. See Section 11 — Governance for the full policy.
AIDDLC Standard v1.0.0, 10QBIT Technologies, 2026, https://aiddlc.ai/spec
Authored and governed by 10QBIT Technologies · aiddlc.ai · CC BY 4.0