Pattern Proposal: Workspace Governance Context Bootstrapping

Summary

Initializes new target workspaces with standardized governance blocks, agent configuration files, and knowledge templates before running agent workflows.

Candidate Pattern

ID: bootstrap-workspace-injection
Classification: intelligence
Maturity: established
Type: implemented

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

src/cas_runner/bootstrap.py (init_workspace, bootstrap, merge_cas_governance_block) - Workspace scaffolding and configuration injector

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

Intent: Guarantee that downstream agents always encounter uniform directories, steering configurations, and validation hooks.
Context: Invoked via CLI during workspace initialisation (cas_runner init_workspace).
Force: Agents operating on unstructured or heterogeneous project structures frequently fail during discovery steps
Force: Manual setup of governance files is error-prone

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns