Pattern Proposal: Governance Action Service Orchestration

Summary

GovernanceActionService sits between higher-level runners and lower-level engines, giving actions a service-layer boundary.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: governance-action-service-orchestration
• Classification: governance
• Maturity: strategic_direction
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• src/cas_runner/governance/governance_action_service.py
• src/cas_runner/governance/governance_action_engine.py

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Expose a stable application-level API for governance actions without forcing callers to understand every internal engine.
• Context: A governance subsystem with multiple engines and models that need coordinated access.
• Force: Callers need simple entry points
• Force: Domain engines may change more often than the service contract
• Force: Cross-cutting governance concerns can be coordinated in one place

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns