CORE ARCHITECTURE SPECIFICATION (CAS) Canonical

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Overview

The Core Architecture Specification (CAS) defines the official conceptual model and domain ontology of the Open Workspace Intelligence Specification (OWIS). It views a software project as a structured knowledge system rather than a collection of flat source files.

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Purpose

CAS serves as the Source of Truth for all concepts, entities, relationships, information models, and architectural principles used across all specifications. It does not define runtime behavior, technical implementation details, or data representation schemas.

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Scope

Included:

• Official core concepts ontology (Workspace, Artifact, Knowledge, Intelligence, Context, Capability, Constraint, Source of Truth, Conflict, Execution Readiness, Confidence).
• Conceptual architectural layers and information hierarchy.
• Workspace and knowledge relationship models.
• Transformative processing pipelines and invariants.

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Non Goals

Excluded:

• Specific programming language bindings.
• Database or network communication protocols.
• Particular LLM API integration logic.
• Developer CLI tool command flags.

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Architecture

The CAS defines a strict, forward-only data flow model where information is gradually processed and verified.

Workspace → Artifacts → Knowledge → Intelligence → Context → Planning → Execution

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Components

Workspace

The logical representation of the entire project work area.

Artifact

Any information object residing in the workspace (immutable during analysis).

Knowledge

Structured information extracted from artifacts.

Intelligence

A synthesized, normalized representation of all knowledge.

Context

A subset of knowledge relevant to a specific execution goal.

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Interfaces

Information is structured inside a conceptual graph mapping relationships such as:

• Workspace contains Artifact
• Artifact contributes Knowledge
• Knowledge defines Capability
• Knowledge constrained by Constraint
• Intelligence validates Knowledge

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Constraints

• One Workspace, One Intelligence: A workspace has only one active synthesized model at a time.
• One Information, One Source of Truth: Duplicate or conflicting details must resolve to a single authority.
• Validation Before Mutation: The workspace must be parsed and verified before code is written.

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Future Extensions

The CAS is designed to scale by adding new conceptual entity nodes and relationships to the Knowledge Graph without altering the core ontological definitions.