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Automated CI Validation for CAS Skill Enforcement

Problem Statement

The baseline assessment identifies mandatory CAS skill usage as an architectural governance concern and proposes automated CI validation for CAS skill enforcement.

The current state depends on contributor and agent discipline to preserve the governed workflow, but discovery indicates an opportunity to make enforcement visible and repeatable through automation.

Why This Matters

CAS skill enforcement protects the repository from architectural drift by ensuring changes pass through governed workflows. Without automation, enforcement can become inconsistent across contributors, agents, and pull requests.

This affects governance operations because architectural guardrails should be verifiable as part of the delivery lifecycle rather than relying only on manual review.

Expected Outcomes

The desired future state is CI validation that makes CAS skill enforcement observable during repository changes.

Success indicators include an automated check tied to governed workflow expectations, clear failure output for non-compliant changes, and reduced reliance on manual detection of skill bypasses.

Dependencies

  • GovernanceOps
  • CAS Skill Enforcement
  • CI/CD workflow governance
  • Architecture Work Registry

Discovery Evidence

The baseline assessment identifies the candidate to implement automated CI validation for CAS skill enforcement.

It states that this would prevent architectural drift by ensuring all code changes pass through mandatory CAS skills.

Define the CI-level governance signal for CAS skill enforcement and route the proposed automation through the repository's managed steering and validation workflow.