Pattern Proposal: Heuristic to Pattern Promotion Lifecycle

Summary

Governs the progressive promotion of emerging agentic heuristics into validated architectural patterns through explicit threshold criteria.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: heuristic-to-pattern-promotion-lifecycle
• Classification: intelligence
• Maturity: strategic_direction
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• cas-knowledge/templates/heuristic-to-pattern_template.md - Template defining requirements for promoting a heuristic to a pattern.
• cas-knowledge/templates/promotion_decision.md - Template recording formal promotion review and decision rationale.
• docs/architecture/cas-pattern-evolution-flow.md - Workflow detailing pattern lifecycle stages.

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Allow agents and architects to capture tentative heuristics quickly while guarding against premature formalization of unverified patterns.
• Context: Agent learning loop where observations from multiple runs accumulate in cas-knowledge.
• Force: Rigid pattern documentation slows down rapid capture of emergent agentic learnings
• Force: Unvetted agent practices promoted to patterns introduce anti-patterns into organizational memory

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns