Start from a known-good path, not a blank repo

A golden path is a known-good starting point. Instead of an empty repository you wire up yourself, you scaffold a service from a template that already carries the conventions and the controls. Golden-path scaffolders cover many languages, so you pick the one that fits and start from a service that is ready to ship. Key points:

• You start from the same known-good template every other team starts from, so conventions stay consistent instead of drifting repo by repo.
• The platform generates the repository and the manifests; your code goes on top of a structure that is already correct.