Pattern Proposal: Traceable Health Metrics

Summary

Dashboard health is calculated from traceable governance metrics and produced with reasons.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: traceable-health-metrics
• Classification: intelligence
• Maturity: strategic_direction
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• src/cas_runner/dashboard/health_model.py (HealthStatus, calculate_health, get_health_reasons) - Shows health calculation and reason generation.
• src/cas_runner/governance/models.py (TraceableMetric, GovernanceHealth, GovernanceThroughput, GovernanceRisks) - Defines the metric and health structures likely consumed by the dashboard.

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Make system health explainable by connecting status to metrics and reasons.
• Context: Found in the dashboard health model together with governance models for traceable metrics, health, throughput, and risks.
• Force: Health status should not be a black box.
• Force: Metrics should support debugging and review.
• Force: Health changes should be linked to observable governance data.

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns