Pattern Proposal: File-Backed Template Convention Repository

Summary

Organizes domain governance, rules, and architecture artifacts using hierarchical filesystem conventions and markdown templates.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: file-backed-template-convention-repository
• Classification: architectural
• Maturity: strategic_direction
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• cas-knowledge/templates/architecture_decision_record_template.md - Standardized ADR layout for repository knowledge capture
• src/cas_runner/bootstrap.py (init_workspace, bootstrap) - Populates workspace file structures according to convention hierarchy

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Persist evolving architectural decisions, rules, and patterns directly in source control alongside codebase changes.
• Context: Continuous architecture requires versioned, human-readable, and machine-inspectable knowledge bases.
• Force: Architectural knowledge must live with code in Git rather than in isolated databases.
• Force: Knowledge structures require standard templates to guide documentation consistency.

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns