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Architecture Intent

Strategic Vision

  • What we are building: A composable, lightweight operating architecture that makes enterprise architecture practice evidence-led, repeatable, and scalable while safeguarding human architectural judgement.
  • Why it exists: To convert proven EA operating model elements into governed, reusable pipelines from intake through delivery feedback without introducing monolithic platform bloat or automating away human accountability.

Project Context

primary_context: ea4all-automation aw_count: 3 alignment_findings: 2

Current State Alignment

The system is partially aligned. Foundational intent and forensic discovery coverage are high, but an operational gap persists: global governance has been adopted without local ADR persistence, runtime capability inventory (inventory.yaml) remains uninitialized, and core workflows remain coupled inside a monolithic component.

Focus Areas / Roadmap

  • Instantiate authoritative project runtime capability inventory (inventory.yaml) to re-establish baseline alignment with ADR-038.
  • Bootstrap local Architecture Decision Record repository to persist project-specific trade-offs and workflow contracts.
  • Decompose monolithic 'ea4all-automation-main-comp' into decoupled intake, classification, and structured synthesis modules.
  • Operationalize CI boundary checking and forensic diagnostic verification gates enforcing ADR-067 and ADR-075 compliance.

Gaps & Tensions (Risks)

  • Absence of project-scoped ADRs forces total reliance on global governance, obscuring local workflow trade-offs and violating local persistence standards (ALIGN-001).
  • Authoritative runtime capability inventory (ADR-038) is marked done globally but lacks local instantiation in inventory.yaml, impeding automated delta verification (ALIGN-002).
  • Core workflow logic resides in a monolithic placeholder ('ea4all-automation-main-comp') contrary to the composable intake/classification/synthesis target architecture (ALIGN-003).
  • Inherited boundary isolation (ADR-067) and forensic diagnostic auditing (ADR-075) lack operational CI verification gates within the local project workspace (ALIGN-004).

Principles

  • Evidence before narrative: Ensure all architectural assessments and syntheses align with empirical evidence before generating narrative.
  • Deterministic where practical: Automate extraction, normalization, and verification deterministically, reserving AI strictly for semantic synthesis.
  • Mandatory human review: Consequential architectural trade-offs and recommendations require non-delegable human accountability.
  • Smallest useful footprint: Build narrow, decoupled automation modules validated by delivery rather than an expansive platform abstraction.
  • Traceability across scopes: Ensure all material decisions align with context, evidence, and verifiable consequences.

Emergent Heuristics

positive_containment: Enforce target project evidence isolation at repository root rather than maintaining negative path exclusions. local_decision_persistence: Capture orchestration patterns and boundary decisions in local ADRs to prevent unmonitored drift from global standards. intermediate_structuring: Do not permit direct transformation of unstructured input into final narrative; always enforce an intermediate structured representation.