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Architecture Intent

Strategic Vision

  • What we are building: A multi-layered Architecture Intelligence Platform connecting Business Intent, Architecture, and Code through automated reasoning loops.
  • Why it exists: To eliminate the gap between high-level architectural intent and low-level code implementation while embedding governance directly into the development lifecycle.

Project Context

primary_context: ideas-to-life-cas aw_count: 30 alignment_findings: 2

Current State Alignment

Partially aligned. The system suffers from high governance latency (22:1 proposal-to-done ratio) and 'Persistence Lag' where implementation frequently outpaces documentation.

Focus Areas / Roadmap

  • Immediate: Stabilize the 'Automated Detect-Analyse-Execute Loop' to mitigate review bottlenecks.
  • Short-term: Back-populate ADRs for 'DONE' implementation items to restore structural integrity.
  • Medium-term: Finalize and integrate the Business Intent Schema.
  • Long-term: Implement full Architecture Knowledge Graph for cross-project intelligence.

Gaps & Tensions (Risks)

  • Governance Velocity Bottleneck: Review capacity cannot match the speed of automated intelligence generation.
  • Documentation Latency: Technical 'Done' state is reached without terminal ADR acceptance.
  • Semantic Gap: Absence of a formal schema for mapping business requirements to architectural patterns.

Principles

  • Governance through participation, not control.
  • Decisions must be persisted as the authoritative source of truth.
  • Traceability over abstraction: Every insight must link back to evidence.
  • Extend, don't rewrite: Build on existing CAS primitives.

Emergent Heuristics

governance_pressure_threshold: When the proposal-to-approval ratio exceeds 5:1, prioritize automation of non-breaking alignment checks. integrity_lock: System evolution stages cannot advance to DONE in the AEM if the corresponding ADR is not in the ACCEPTED state. intent_first_principle: New business capabilities must emit 'intent signals' before architectural patterns are modified.