# About DotMock

> Deterministic systems must exist before prompt and context optimization can mean anything.

Agent-driven development makes software loops faster and more autonomous. It also makes every unstable dependency, irreversible side effect, and missing trace more expensive. DotMock gives agents a controlled environment in which they can integrate, fail, retry, recover, and produce evidence.

## Principles
- **Contracts before improvisation:** Model the interface and its behavior before asking a model to guess what the world looks like.
- **Safe loops over impressive demos:** A reproducible failure-and-recovery path matters more than a polished happy path.
- **Evidence over confidence:** Traffic, state changes, deliveries, drafts, and approvals should be visible and attributable.
- **Native behavior over generic mocks:** REST, GraphQL, SOAP, gRPC, realtime, LLM APIs, and webhooks retain their own runtime semantics.

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