Pattern Proposal: File-Backed Agentic Knowledge Repository

Summary

Maintains persistent agent memory, decisions, rules, and patterns in a version-controlled directory tree acting as a shared blackboard.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: file-backed-agentic-knowledge-repository
• Classification: intelligence
• Maturity: established
• Type: implemented

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• cas-knowledge/cas-config.yaml - Knowledge store configuration
• cas-knowledge/templates/pattern_template.md - Standardized schema template for recorded patterns
• cas-knowledge/global/rules/ - Global architectural constraint store

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Provide durable, human-auditable, and branchable memory for agent operations across different projects and lifecycles.
• Context: The cas-knowledge/ directory tree split into global/, projects/, governance/, and runtime/.
• Force: Vector databases lack human editability, diff reviewability, and git-native approval workflows
• Force: Agent state must survive between discrete CI/CD execution runs

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns