# Why We Built This

**aeo-sdk-rust** exists because too many teams were solving adjacent problems without solving the operating problem at the center. The tools were there; the coherence was not.

The recurring pressure in this space showed up around weak semantic packaging, inconsistent structured data, and poor answer-system discoverability. In practice, that meant teams could collect logs, metrics, workflow state, documents, or events and still not have a good answer to the hardest questions: what is drifting, what matters first, who owns the next move, and what evidence supports that move? Once a system reaches that point, the problem is no longer only technical. It becomes operational.

That is why **aeo-sdk-rust** was built the way it was. The repo is a deliberate attempt to model a real operating layer for growth, search, content, and analytics teams. It is not just trying to present data attractively or prove that a stack can be wired together. It is trying to show what happens when evidence, prioritization, and next-best action are treated as first-class product concerns.

The surrounding tooling was not useless. SEO crawlers, analytics platforms, and schema validators each handled a slice of the work. But they still left out a review layer that connected technical content hygiene with answer readiness and citation potential. That gap kept turning ordinary review work into detective work.

That shaped the design philosophy:

- **operator-first** so the riskiest or most time-sensitive signal is surfaced early
- **decision-legible** so the logic behind a recommendation can be understood by humans under pressure
- **review-friendly** so the repo supports discussion, governance, and iteration instead of hiding the reasoning
- **CI-native** so checks and narratives can live close to the build and change process

This repo also avoids trying to be a vague platform for everything. Its value comes from being opinionated about a real problem: Rust SDK for the AEO Protocol v0.1. Parse, build, validate, and fetch AEO declaration documents. serde + serde_json, optional ureq client. Clippy and rustfmt clean. Loads canonical examples from aeo-protocol-spec.

What comes next is practical. The roadmap is about deeper citation-gap detection, scheduled probes, and stronger semantic publishing workflows. Its real value is not the stack or the screen. It is the operating model it makes visible.