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Architecture Intent

Strategic Vision

  • What we are building: An Architecture Intelligence Platform that bridges the gap between Business Intent, Architectural Decisions, and Code Evidence.
  • Why it exists: To move governance from a periodic manual review activity to a continuous, participation-driven operational capability (ReasoningOps/GovernanceOps).

Project Context

primary_context: ideas-to-life-cas aw_count: 29 alignment_findings: 3

Current State Alignment

The system is currently in a state of 'Critical' alignment drift due to 'Persistence Lag' where implementation (DONE) is outpacing formal decision record (ACCEPTED) creation. Schema impedance exists where agents are producing narrative text instead of machine-processable JSON.

Focus Areas / Roadmap

  • Synchronize Lifecycle: Perform a retrospective audit of all 'DONE' items to ensure ADR alignment.
  • Ratify Registry: Formally accept the Architecture Work Registry (AWR) as the authoritative backlog.
  • Schema Hardening: Migrate reasoning prompts to mandatory JSON-first output contracts.
  • Automated Loop: Implement the 'Detect-Analyse-Execute' loop to resolve the governance velocity bottleneck.
  • Business Integration: Begin extraction of intent signals from high-level business documents.

Gaps & Tensions (Risks)

  • Persistence Lag: Lifecycle status in AEM is decoupled from ADR acceptance.
  • Schema Impedance: Reasoning outputs require manual conversion to structured data.
  • Velocity Bottleneck: A 15:1 ratio of proposed work to executed governance indicates manual scaling limits.
  • Unratified Authority: The Architecture Work Registry is being used as a source of truth without a formal decision mandate.

Principles

  • Decisions remain central (ADRs are the primary unit of governance)
  • Traceability over abstraction (Every insight must be linked to evidence)
  • Human-in-the-loop (Automation participates, architects decide)
  • Extend, don't rewrite (Build on existing CAS primitives)
  • Execution-driven evolution (Governance evolves based on operational usage)

Emergent Heuristics

triage_priority: Prioritize 'Persistence Lag' remediation over new feature implementation to ensure system trust. automation_trigger: Alignment checks should trigger on every transition in the Architecture Work Registry.