Parent
Sub-issue of the AIAC epic — #643.
Summary
The goal of this issue is to produce the documentation that describes the AIAC end goal: a
human-readable picture of what the system does and how its parts fit together, the specifications
that define each part's intended behavior, and a plan for validating that behavior. Documentation is
written at a level a non-implementer can follow, and is delivered incrementally alongside the phase
it supports.
Goal
Anyone — a new engineer, a reviewer, or a stakeholder — should be able to understand what AIAC is,
what each component is responsible for, and how a request flows through the system, without reading
the source code. Each implementation phase should be able to start from written documentation that
describes its intended behavior.
Deliverables (as tasks)
- Produce the Architectural Summary (
inception/requirements/ARCHITECTURE-SUMMARY.md) — a
plain-language, end-to-end overview of AIAC: the use cases, the components described in prose, and
how a request flows through the system. This is the canonical human-readable orientation; the epic
and this issue both link to it. Technical reference material (ports, libraries, exact schemas)
stays in the PRD, not here.
- Produce / complete the component specifications — the documentation that describes the
intended behavior of each part of AIAC needed to reach the end goal. Written as descriptions of
what each component should do, kept internally consistent and cross-referenced with the
Architectural Summary.
- Produce a test plan — a plan describing how AIAC's end-to-end behavior is validated at each
phase (what is exercised, what "correct" looks like). This is a plan to be written, not a record
of tests that already exist.
Documentation by phase
Documentation is delivered just ahead of the phase it supports:
| Phase |
Documentation that supports it |
| Phase 1 |
Service-onboarding (UC-1) behavior; how policy is read from a single written document; the identity and policy-writing components |
| Phase 2 |
The live platform trigger path; how enforcement consumes the generated rules |
| Phase 3 |
The searchable knowledge base and how the policy source is read from it |
| Phase 4 |
Policy-update (UC-2) and role-update (UC-3) behavior |
Acceptance criteria
Parent
Sub-issue of the AIAC epic — #643.
Summary
The goal of this issue is to produce the documentation that describes the AIAC end goal: a
human-readable picture of what the system does and how its parts fit together, the specifications
that define each part's intended behavior, and a plan for validating that behavior. Documentation is
written at a level a non-implementer can follow, and is delivered incrementally alongside the phase
it supports.
Goal
Anyone — a new engineer, a reviewer, or a stakeholder — should be able to understand what AIAC is,
what each component is responsible for, and how a request flows through the system, without reading
the source code. Each implementation phase should be able to start from written documentation that
describes its intended behavior.
Deliverables (as tasks)
inception/requirements/ARCHITECTURE-SUMMARY.md) — aplain-language, end-to-end overview of AIAC: the use cases, the components described in prose, and
how a request flows through the system. This is the canonical human-readable orientation; the epic
and this issue both link to it. Technical reference material (ports, libraries, exact schemas)
stays in the PRD, not here.
intended behavior of each part of AIAC needed to reach the end goal. Written as descriptions of
what each component should do, kept internally consistent and cross-referenced with the
Architectural Summary.
phase (what is exercised, what "correct" looks like). This is a plan to be written, not a record
of tests that already exist.
Documentation by phase
Documentation is delivered just ahead of the phase it supports:
Acceptance criteria
is understandable without reading the code.
internally consistent, and cross-reference one another and the Architectural Summary.
begins.