Promotion Decision: registry-guarded-governance-state-machine
Decision
Status: accepted Date: 2026-10-01
Rationale
Essential governance mechanism ensuring autonomous agents cannot transition architectural entities through unauthorized lifecycle paths, enforced via strict TransitionRegistry checks.
Evidence Summary
- Current Architecture State Support
- Governance Model Alignment
- Verified Production Usage
- Recurring Signals
Governance Assessment
Criteria Met
- [x] Significance
- [x] Reusability
- [x] Recurrence
- [x] Evidence Quality
- [x] Governance Maturity
- [x] Strategic Alignment
Governance Risks
- Unregistered intermediate state deadlocks under unanticipated exception conditions
Traceability
- Pattern Proposal: registry-guarded-governance-state-machine
- Promotion Recommendation: recommendation-registry-guarded-governance-state-machine
Next Step: Adr Generation