Pattern Proposal: Heuristic-to-Pattern Lifecycle Promotion

Summary

Implements an evolutionary lifecycle where candidate agent observations start as low-confidence heuristics before promotion to verified patterns.

Candidate Pattern

• ID: two-tier-heuristic-pattern-evolution
• Classification: intelligence
• Maturity: strategic_direction
• Type: emerging

Observed Signals

No specific signals listed.

Evidence

Supporting Evidence

• docs/architecture/cas-pattern-evolution-flow.md - Specification of the heuristic to pattern progression lifecycle
• cas-knowledge/templates/heuristic-to-pattern_template.md - Template contract enforcing promotion criteria
• cas-knowledge/templates/promotion_decision.md - Document schema capturing promotion rationale and evidence

Scope Assessment

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

Rationale

• Intent: Prevent premature rule enforcement while enabling the continuous capture and maturation of emergent agent behaviors.
• Context: Defined in architecture docs (cas-pattern-evolution-flow.md) and operationalised via templates and promotion decision records.
• Force: Agents generate speculative rules that may not hold generally across projects
• Force: Completely manual rule creation causes architectural knowledge to rot

Traceability

Artifact source: proposed-patterns