Pattern Proposal: Agentic State Reconciliation Merger

Summary

Applies targeted agentic reasoning to synthesize conflicting governance and architecture definitions into coherent unified blocks.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: agentic-state-reconciliation-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) - Reconciles incoming updates with local project configurations.
• src/cas_runner/bootstrap.py (merge_cas_governance_block) - Orchestrates governance block merges during workspace initialization.
• src/cas_runner/governance/models.py (ResolutionResult) - Contains output payload and status of reconciliation.

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Resolve semantically complex merge conflicts across markdown and structured YAML governance blocks that git three-way merge cannot resolve.
• Context: Triggered during project bootstrapping and governance synchronization workflows when merging global policies into local repos.
• Force: Standard git merge conflicts fail when both upstream templates and downstream projects touch metadata headers.
• Force: Pure string-replacement risks corrupting custom local project adaptations.

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns