Pattern Proposal: Traceable Metric Telemetry Envelope
Summary
Envelopes agent evaluation outputs, health scores, and throughput in traceable metric models backed by OpenTelemetry spans to guarantee auditability.
Candidate Pattern
- ID:
traceable-metric-telemetry-envelope - Classification: intelligence
- Maturity: strategic_direction
- Type: emerging
Observed Signals
No specific signals listed.
Evidence
Supporting Evidence
- src/cas_runner/governance/models.py (TraceableMetric, GovernanceHealth, GovernanceThroughput) - Models embedding traceability envelopes for metrics
- pyproject.toml - opentelemetry-api and opentelemetry-sdk declared as core runtime dependencies
Scope Assessment
- Evidence Strength: high
- Confidence: high
- Applies to: ideas-to-life-cas
Rationale
- Intent: Maintain continuous traceability for agentic decisions, compliance calculations, and governance state shifts.
- Context: Agent decisions in autonomous governance must be verifiable by human auditors and linked to concrete execution traces.
- Force: Autonomous agent decisions without traceability create operational opacity and regulatory risk.
- Force: Diagnostic debugging of complex agent runs requires linked metadata.
Traceability
Artifact source: proposed-patterns