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GitOps (Agent)

Reviewed 19 July 2026Canonical definitionPart of: Agent Reliability & Deployment Terms →

GitOps for AI agents is the practice of managing agent configuration, prompts, policies, and deployment definitions as code in version-controlled repositories, so that the current state of all agents in production can be reproduced from source, every change is reviewed and approved, and rollback is as simple as reverting a commit.

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Questions

Common questions.

What is GitOps (Agent)?

GitOps for AI agents is the practice of managing agent configuration, prompts, policies, and deployment definitions as code in version-controlled repositories, so that the current state of all agents in production can be reproduced from source, every change is reviewed and approved, and rollback is as simple as reverting a commit.

Which terms are related to GitOps (Agent)?

Closely related concepts include Agent CI/CD, Shadow Testing (Agent), Environment Promotion (Agent), Prompt Registry. Each is defined in the Prefactor glossary.

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