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  "request": "Triage Jira ticket MZCLD-3703: Spike: Prove out Google Agent Platform and define the paved path for building agents at Mozilla",
  "references": [
    "https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/MZCLD-3703"
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    "issue": "MZCLD-3703"
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summary

MZCLD-3703 is a well-scoped discovery/spike ticket asking Cloud Engineering to prove out Google Agent Platform (GAP) via a PoC (candidate: a MozCloud investigation skill) and produce a "paved path" recommendation for how Mozilla builds and runs agents, including an ROI case and explicit treatment of agent identity/auth/audit. The ticket is in Backlog with no comments yet, so triage should focus on confirming scope/sizing, clarifying acceptance criteria and timebox, and flagging the out-of-scope boundaries so the work doesn't creep into productionization or platform commitment.

findings

• Ticket is a spike (discovery), not a production build — explicitly out of scope: productionizing the PoC, committing Mozilla to Google Agent Platform, and migrating existing Claude skills.
• The core unresolved problem driving this work is agent identity/authz/audit — Cloud Engineering has no settled answer for how an agent authenticates, what it can touch, and how it's audited. This should be a first-class evaluation criterion for GAP, not secondary.
• The primary deliverable is not the PoC itself but a documented 'paved path' (reference architecture + supported way to build agents), analogous to the existing MozCloud Helm charts pattern.
• ROI justification (engineer time/toil savings, run cost, opportunity cost of build-vs-buy vs staying with Claude-skill tooling) is required as a deliverable, not optional — this should be tracked as an explicit acceptance criterion.
• A candidate PoC subject is proposed (MozCloud investigation skill: point an agent at a service/incident to do first-pass investigation) but is explicitly stated as not mandatory — any PoC that genuinely exercises the platform is acceptable. This flexibility should be confirmed with the assignee to avoid scope debates.
• A reference link to Google's Agent Gateway overview docs is provided in the description, but no internal Confluence runbook/design doc is linked, and there are zero comments — this ticket has not yet been discussed or assigned/sized.
• No explicit timebox, story point estimate, or target sprint/quarter is stated in the description for this spike, which could lead to open-ended scope for an open-ended discovery task.

proposed actions

Triage notes:

This is a well-scoped discovery spike. Before pulling it into a sprint, recommend nailing down:

1. **Timebox**: Spikes should have a hard time limit (e.g., 1-2 weeks) to prevent scope creep into a full evaluation project. Can we set an explicit timebox and target sprint?
2. **PoC subject**: The MozCloud investigation skill is a good candidate PoC (exercises real Mozilla workflows) but the ticket says any PoC that exercises the platform is fine — worth confirming with the assignee before kickoff so we don't debate scope mid-spike.
3. **Identity/authz/audit as first-class eval criteria**: The underlying problem motivating this work is the lack of a settled agent-identity story (auth, authorization scope, audit trail). Suggest the write-up explicitly score GAP against these three dimensions, since that's the gap current Claude-skill tooling doesn't close either.
4. **ROI deliverable**: Per the description, ROI evidence is a required output, not optional. Suggest defining upfront what 'evidence' looks like (e.g., time-to-build comparison, estimated run cost from GAP pricing, toil reduction estimate) so the final write-up has a consistent rubric rather than qualitative impressions.
5. **Output format**: Confirm where the 'paved path' doc will live (Confluence, in the same spirit as existing Helm chart docs) and who the audience/reviewers are (Cloud Engineering team, or broader Mozilla eng?).

No blockers identified — ticket is ready to be sized and scheduled once the above are confirmed with the reporter/assignee.

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      "summary": "Spike: Prove out Google Agent Platform and define the paved path for building agents at Mozilla",
      "status": "Backlog",
      "description_text": "Background Teams across Mozilla are starting to build agents, and Cloud Engineering does not yet have a recommended way to do it \u2014 no paved path, no reference architecture, and no settled answer to agent identity (how an agent authenticates, what it is allowed to touch, and how we audit it). Google Agent Platform looks like it may provide those primitives, and it is worth doing discovery work to find out. Goal Build a proof of concept in Google Agent Platform \u2014 the subject matter of the PoC is secondary to the learning \u2014 and come back to Cloud Engineering with a clear point of view: what Google Agent Platform is good for, what it does not solve, what the architecture would look like, and an overall vision for how Mozilla builds and runs agents. The main output is a  paved path : a documented, supported way for teams to build agents, in the same spirit as the MozCloud Helm charts. Not a one-off demo. A candidate PoC is a  MozCloud investigation skill  \u2014 an agent that can be pointed at a service or an incident and do the first pass of investigation. Any PoC that genuinely exercises the platform is acceptable. Focus Focus on the functionality we actually need and present what the architecture would look like, rather than an exhaustive feature tour. We need an overall vision out of this, not a feature list. Return on investment Proving ROI is part of the work, not an afterthought. Before we recommend Google Agent Platform to anyone, we need evidence that it is worth the cost and the adoption effort \u2014 what it saves in engineer time or toil, what it costs to run, and what we would give up by building the same capability ourselves or staying with our current Claude-skill tooling. Reference Agent Gateway overview \u2014 https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/govern/gateways/agent-gateway-overview Out of scope Productionizing the PoC, committing Mozilla to Google Agent Platform as a platform, and migrating existing Claude skills.",
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