Pattern Proposal: Knowledge-as-Code Blackboard

Summary

Maintains shared agent state, architectural records, decisions, and runtime evaluations in a Git-tracked folder structure acting as an auditable blackboard.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: knowledge-as-code-blackboard
• Classification: intelligence
• Maturity: established
• Type: implemented

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• cas-knowledge/runtime/rule-context.json - Runtime execution context persisted for agent steps
• cas-knowledge/templates/heuristic-to-pattern_template.md - Standardized transition schema for blackboard state promotion

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Provide a shared, human-inspectable memory space where agents publish observations and read enterprise steering directives.
• Context: The entire cas-knowledge/ directory hierarchy containing decisions, rules, signals, templates, and runtime context.
• Force: Vector databases and transient agent caches lack audit trails and human pull-request governance
• Force: Decoupled agents need shared context across asynchronous CI/CD runs

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns