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Architecture Intent

Strategic Vision

  • What we are building: An Architecture Intelligence Platform that connects Business Intent, Architecture, Code, and Decisions into a continuous reasoning loop.
  • Why it exists: To transform architecture governance from a periodic manual review into a continuously participating operational capability embedded directly within delivery workflows.

Project Context

primary_context: ideas-to-life-cas aw_count: 41 alignment_findings: 3

Current State Alignment

The system is transitioning from a template-ready baseline to an operationally governed state. Current alignment is 'partially_aligned' due to a significant governance bottleneck (30:2 proposal-to-acceptance ratio) and technical debt in decision schema compliance.

Focus Areas / Roadmap

  • Immediate: Implement Structured Decision Governance (YAML schema) and migrate legacy ADRs.
  • Immediate: Formalize the Core Orchestration Pipeline ADR to establish decision provenance.
  • Short-term: Execute a dedicated governance review cycle to process the 30-item proposal backlog.
  • Short-term: Develop and deploy automated CI validation for CAS skill enforcement.
  • Medium-term: Define and integrate the Business Intent knowledge model for end-to-end traceability.
  • Long-term: Implement the Interactive Architecture Intelligence Map (AIM) for visual evolution tracking.

Gaps & Tensions (Risks)

  • Governance Velocity Bottleneck: High volume of proposed architecture work items exceeding the 5:1 heuristic threshold.
  • Decision Provenance Gap: Foundational components like the core orchestration pipeline lack persisted ADRs.
  • Schema Non-compliance: Active decisions remain in narrative Markdown, violating the 'rule-decision-schema-must-be-structured' requirement for YAML.
  • Enforcement Gap: Lack of automated CI validation allows for potential architectural drift during implementation.

Principles

  • Decisions are Central: All architectural evolution must be anchored in a persisted ADR.
  • Traceability over Abstraction: Every architectural insight must be linked to verifiable evidence from code or work logs.
  • Human-in-the-Loop: Automation participates by proposing and detecting; architects interpret, govern, and decide.
  • Operationalized Governance: Governance is a delivery participant, not an external event.
  • Extend, Don't Rewrite: Build on existing CAS primitives (Patterns, ADR, AEM, AID).

Emergent Heuristics

governance_velocity_threshold: 5:1 (Proposed to Accepted ratio) evidence_requirement: No pattern promotion or decision acceptance without implementation signals or discovery evidence. drift_tolerance: Zero tolerance for narrative-only decisions when structured schemas are available.