What is Engineering Framework?
Engineering Framework helps engineering teams plan software projects consistently and hold on to what they learn along the way. It gives you:- A planning checklist that lays out what “good” looks like at each phase of a project, and tracks what your team has actually completed
- A Knowledge Base that captures decisions, guides, and past artifacts so your team (and your AI coding assistants) can find them again instead of re-discovering the same answers
- Organizations, departments, and permissions so the right people see and manage the right things
- Support for connecting AI coding assistants (like Claude Code) directly to your planning checklist and Knowledge Base, so agents can check gaps, pull templates, and search prior decisions on your team’s behalf
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What is Engineering Framework
A product overview of what it does and who it’s for.
Creating your first Organization
Walk through the setup wizard to create your organization.
Core Concepts
Organizations, Departments, and Projects — and how permissions cascade.
Project Phases & Phase Mapping
Lifecycle phases and how they drive checklist gap analysis.
The Framework Checklist
Categories, subcategories, items, definitions, and templates.
Framework MCP Server
Connect AI agents to the Framework MCP server and use its tools.
Knowledge Base
Ingest project documentation and query it through the Knowledge Base.
Permissions
Understand the authentication and authorization model.
Open source
engineeringframework.dev on GitHub
Engineering Framework is open source. If you’re technical and want to
self-host it or contribute, start here.