Pattern Proposal: Agentic Conflict Resolution Merger

Summary

Delegates semantic reconciliation of concurrent architectural and code delta conflicts to a specialized merger agent.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: agentic-conflict-resolution-merger
• Classification: intelligence
• Maturity: strategic_direction
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• src/cas_runner/governance/agentic_merger.py (AgenticMerger) - Orchestrates semantic resolution of git deltas against governance models.
• src/cas_runner/governance/models.py (ResolutionResult) - Typed contract for resolution outputs including status and delta changes.

Scope Assessment

• Evidence Strength: high
• Confidence: high
• Applies to: ideas-to-life-cas

Rationale

• Intent: Resolve non-trivial structural and semantic merge conflicts in architectural decisions and schema definitions where textual 3-way merge fails.
• Context: Multi-agent or multi-developer workflows concurrently submitting changes to cas-knowledge repositories.
• Force: Standard git merges fail on semantic conflicts in structured documents like ADRs or capability sets
• Force: Human review for every minor divergence creates severe workflow bottlenecks

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns