Pattern Proposal: Compliance Engine as Output Guardrail

Summary

Agent-produced outputs are checked against compliance rules before being accepted.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: compliance-engine-guardrails
• Classification: intelligence
• Maturity: strategic_direction
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• src/cas_runner/governance/compliance_engine.py (ComplianceEngine) - Validation logic
• cas-knowledge/runtime/rule-context.json - Runtime rule context

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Prevent non-compliant decisions from entering the knowledge base or governance state.
• Context: Applied after agent steps that generate architecture decisions or other knowledge artifacts.
• Force: Need to enforce organisational rules
• Force: Agents may generate plausible but non-compliant content

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns