Pattern Proposal: Compliance Finding Guardrail

Summary

ComplianceEngine evaluates governed behaviour and produces structured compliance findings and metrics.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: compliance-finding-guardrail
• Classification: intelligence
• Maturity: strategic_direction
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• src/cas_runner/governance/compliance_engine.py (ComplianceEngine) - Implements or encapsulates compliance evaluation.
• src/cas_runner/governance/models.py (ComplianceFinding, ComplianceMetrics, GovernanceException, GovernanceRisks) - Defines structured compliance outputs and risk/exception types.

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Make agent or automation behaviour checkable against compliance rules before or after execution.
• Context: Located in the governance package with related models for findings, metrics, exceptions, and risks.
• Force: Violations need structured output, not only pass/fail.
• Force: Compliance must be measurable over time.
• Force: Failures should raise explicit governance exceptions.

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns