Abstract
A multi-lane concurrent specification evolution system maintains a hierarchical specification across three lanes: isolated team experimentation branches, an integration lane, and a low-velocity consensus lane. Per-domain governance policies define permission levels for AI autonomy and human involvement, including human-only, human-review, AI-propose with an objection window, and AI-auto subject to a confidence threshold. An AI agent proposes and/or executes merges from team branches to the integration lane using conflict detection, contract compatibility checking, invariant validation, and cross-reference impact analysis for inter-domain accept/produce contracts, and notifies affected owners. When stabilization criteria are met, the integrated state is promoted to a versioned baseline snapshot used as the canonical baseline for AI agents. Every modification produces an immutable append-only change entry recording source classification, author, reviewer, lane, and promotion history. Drift detection operates bidirectionally with lane-dependent tolerance, with baseline drift requiring urgent reconciliation with human review.
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Anonymous, "Multi-Lane Concurrent Specification Evolution System with Configurable AI Governance for Distributed Engineering Organizations", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/10771