Pattern Proposal: Pattern Evolution Lifecycle

Summary

Templates and architecture documents suggest a lifecycle for turning experiments, learnings, and heuristics into governed patterns or rules.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: pattern-evolution-lifecycle
• Classification: intelligence
• Maturity: emerging
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• docs/architecture/cas-pattern-evolution-flow.md - Document path indicates a designed pattern evolution flow.
• cas-knowledge/templates/heuristic-to-pattern_template.md - Template explicitly supports promoting heuristics into patterns.
• cas-knowledge/templates/promotion_decision.md - Template supports explicit promotion decisions.
• cas-knowledge/templates/experiment_template.md - Template supports experimental learning.

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Convert transient agent behaviour, learnings, or experiments into durable, reviewable organizational knowledge.
• Context: Templates for experiments, learnings, heuristics, patterns, rules, signals, promotion decisions, and pattern-evolution documentation are present.
• Force: Learned behaviour should not become canonical without review.
• Force: Heuristics need evidence and promotion criteria.
• Force: Patterns must remain distinct from one-off observations.

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns