AGEF is a governance-first orchestration architecture for agentic software execution. The framework has evolved from initial architecture design into a working system with 40+ formal Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), machine-readable policy documents (intake, planning, and context policies), a git-backed event log, and the Consumer Bootstrap Protocol v0.1 for initializing and upgrading the framework across consumer repositories. The control-plane separates intent classification, planning, gate-controlled execution, and audit persistence into explicit layers. A Schema Evolution Protocol (SEP) governs framework-level changes separately from product feature work. Released under Apache 2.0.