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Alignment Summary

overall_status: critical critical_issues: 1 high_issues: 2 medium_issues: 2 low_issues: 0

Alignment Findings

  • [MEDIUM] 22 proposed items without progression.
  • Recommendation:
  • [CRITICAL] Persistence Lag: 'Architecture Work Registry' is marked as DONE in the AEM evolution map, but it is linked to an Architecture Work artifact (aw-ideas-to-life-cas-2026-05-31-001) instead of a formal ADR in 'accepted' status.
  • Recommendation: Formalise the 'Architecture Work Registry' decision into an ADR and set status to 'accepted' before marking the implementation as 'DONE'.
  • [HIGH] Governance Velocity Asymmetry: The system has 22 proposed items against only 7 completed items (approx 3:1 ratio currently, but AID identifies a 15:1 velocity bottleneck in reasoning vs validation).
  • Recommendation: Execute a Governance Backlog Triage to archive stale or low-priority proposals and reduce the cognitive load on human architects.
  • [HIGH] Authority Paradox: The Architecture Work Registry is being institutionalized as the 'Authoritative Backlog' per AEM/AID, yet there is no accepted ADR that formally grants it this governance standing.
  • Recommendation: Draft and approve an ADR specifically codifying the Architecture Work Registry as the primary authority over generated artifacts.
  • [MEDIUM] Schema Gap: Lack of a transition plan from Markdown-narrative governance artifacts to machine-consumable JSON/YAML formats as prioritized in the AID Focus Areas.
  • Recommendation: Define a schema migration roadmap for ADRs and Architecture Work to support machine-to-machine alignment loops.

Architecture Work Derived

  • [MEDIUM] Too many unprogressed proposals
  • [HIGH] Draft ADR: Institutionalize Architecture Work Registry as Authoritative Source.
  • [HIGH] Governance Backlog Triage: Review and archive 22 proposed items to restore velocity.
  • [MEDIUM] Define Machine-Consumable Schema for ADR and Architecture Work items.