From Skill to Agent: When a Text File Isn’t Enough
April 21, 2026
Adam Lewis Senior Software Engineer A coworker of mine built a Go CLI for the Harvest time-tracking API. It’s a solid tool, but every time I wanted to use it
AI in government is not what it was. Mandates are no longer a distant horizon; they’re here, they’re specific, and they come with real consequences for how your systems are built, governed, and audited in production. For federal teams tasked with AI governance, transparency, and compliance with Executive Orders like EO 14179, EO 14365, and EO 14028, the stakes are now real.
That’s why we’re excited to announce a new joint webinar series with Carahsoft: Mandate-Driven AI Execution, Transparency & Governance, a six-part federal series on turning AI mandates into transparent, governable systems you actually control.
Each session is anchored to specific mandates and frameworks—EO 14179, EO 14365, EO 14028, NIST AI RMF, MOSA requirements. We’ll tackle questions federal teams are asking right now, including:
Across the series, open source AI tooling is treated as what it already is in federal production environments: part of the federal AI production stack. We’ll focus on execution-level visibility, governance, and control, regardless of whether the components are open or closed.
OpenTeams provides AI infrastructure built on the open source technologies that power today’s AI ecosystem, including open source projects such as PyTorch, JAX, NumPy, Jupyter, and Nebari.
For government agencies, we focus on secure, modular AI platforms that help you maintain control of your data, avoid lock-in, and align with transparency, modular open systems, and governance requirements, instead of tying your future to a single black-box vendor.
OpenTeams was founded by Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and co-creator of SciPy, libraries that sit underneath many of the frameworks agencies already rely on. His work helped shape the open scientific computing ecosystem that underpins modern AI, and that experience flows directly into how we think about federal AI execution and governance.
The series will kick off with “MOSA for AI: Aligning AI Platforms with DoW Modular Open Systems Requirements” in March with OpenTeams’ Ken Foster, Solutions Architect & Software Engineer.
Ken designs modular, sovereign AI/ML platforms for customers who prioritize retaining control of their data, and he has led large-scale programs supporting the Department of State, Treasury, VA, IRS, Commerce, HHS, USDA, Federal Reserve Board and multiple DoW components.
If you’re responsible for mission platforms, vendor lock-in risk, or aligning AI with MOSA and modern software acquisition pathways, Session 1 is your on-ramp into the full Mandate-Driven AI Execution, Transparency & Governance series.
From there, join us on the last Thursday of every month until the series wraps in August. See the list of sessions and register here >>
Adam Lewis Senior Software Engineer A coworker of mine built a Go CLI for the Harvest time-tracking API. It’s a solid tool, but every time I wanted to use it
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