Clarified governance architecture for repo automation

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Clarified governance architecture for repo automation

  • Day: 2026-05-19
  • Time: 11:10 to 11:20
  • Project: Dev
  • Workspace: WP 2: Operational
  • Status: Completed
  • Priority: MEDIUM
  • Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
  • Tags: Governance, Architecture, Automation, Repo-Management, Evidence-Ledger, Modularization

Description

Session Goal

Refine the architecture of Matías’ automation/governance system so scripts, evidence collection, and execution responsibilities are cleanly separated before further implementation.

Key Activities

  • Framed the existing scripts as a governance toolchain rather than a flat script list, separating responsibilities into: reality reading, state normalization, repository mutation, control-plane auditing, and work compilation.
  • Defined a six-layer repo governance model covering repo inspection, prereq normalization, repair, control-plane health, block compilation, and queue publication.
  • Clarified that new capabilities should act as evidence collectors feeding governance, not replacing it.
  • Proposed an evidence-ledger vertical for git/filesystem tracing and weekly reconstruction, kept separate from current-state repo health checks.
  • Repositioned policy.py as the ontology/compiler boundary, with plugins as local procedural executors to preserve maintainability.
  • Argued for lean system design: simplify the model first and avoid premature platform expansion until the frontier proves useful.
  • Refined the frontier architecture around a smaller core: registry, compiler, plugins, runner, and frontier, with heavier evidence/reconstruction layers deferred.
  • Clarified the Office / Staff / Ops split: Office compiles and routes work, Staff prepares briefs and bundles, and Ops executes bounded verification procedures.

Achievements

  • Established a reusable architectural vocabulary for governance, evidence, and execution boundaries.
  • Identified a minimal refactor path: separate inspection, prereqs, control-plane, and block tools into dedicated directories.
  • Reduced ambiguity around where repo_health belongs in the stack by reframing it as an Ops subsystem rather than the top-level brain.
  • Produced a clearer decision intent: keep the system lean, modular, and contract-driven before adding more infrastructure.

Pending Tasks

  • Implement the directory/module split for inspection, prereqs, control-plane, and block tools.
  • Define explicit data contracts and capability labels between layers.
  • Build or validate the minimal plugin set for the next frontier iteration.
  • Decide when the evidence-ledger layer should be promoted from deferred design to active implementation.

Evidence

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