How DRIs are used in this material In the channel's material on coding agents in practice, DRIs (directly responsible individuals) name the people who hold direct ownership over a piece of work. As autonomous agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork take on more of the building and reviewing, the human's job shifts from typing code to planning, orchestrating, and verifying — and DRIs are the ones accountable for that final judgment. [^5525946f-790a-5dbf-869f-eaf4933bd18b@138]