Pattern Proposal: Telemetry-Grounded Traceability

Summary

Attaches traceable metric schemas and OpenTelemetry instrumentation to every governance decision and agent transition.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: telemetry-grounded-traceability
• Classification: governance
• Maturity: strategic_direction
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• src/cas_runner/governance/models.py (TraceableMetric) - Model representing telemetry and auditable metric entries.
• pyproject.toml (opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-sdk) - Core runtime dependencies for telemetry collection.

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Maintain a full audit trail linking source git revisions, agent model versions, and resulting compliance decisions.
• Context: Embedded across model evaluations and action execution within cas_runner.
• Force: Black-box agent decisions create compliance liabilities in enterprise architecture.
• Force: Debugging failures in agent reasoning without timestamped metrics is error-prone.

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns