asap

ASAP

Architect Support Agentic Platform

An agentic support platform for the BTABoK practitioner across all four BTABoK models (Engagement, Value, People, Competency). ASAP wraps the practice around a practitioner rather than around a spec, delivering advisory guidance, calendar-driven automation, and knowledge retrieval while preserving strict human-in-the-loop boundaries for every role that requires judgment.

Status

Pre-implementation. The platform’s full architecture is captured in WIP/Architect-Support-Agentic-Platform.md. The theoretical groundwork for an upcoming concept paper, The Architect and the Agent, is in docs/notes/.

Relationship to SpecChat

ASAP depends on SpecChat and consumes its MCP server surface. SpecChat owns the SpecLang language, the BTABOK profile, validators, and canvas rendering. ASAP adds:

• Agentic primitives (skills, subagents, scheduled tasks, webhooks, preview, RAG) over SpecChat’s deterministic core.
• Four-band authority gradient with human-in-the-loop role architecture for the non-Engagement BTABoK models.
• Deployed-service concerns: stores (CompetencyStore), privacy enforcement (PrivacyGate), retention, diagnostics bus, integrations with directory, HRIS, PMO, incident, and PR-webhook boundaries.

SpecChat ships independently and is unaware of ASAP. ASAP does not modify SpecLang.

Documents

Design

• Architect Support Agentic Platform: the founding platform design. Covers framing, ten platform components, BTABoK-model-by-model support, HITL role architecture, and a six-wave delivery plan with a fork point at SpecChat GA exit.
• ASAP Acronym and Term Glossary: acronyms and terminology used across the ASAP corpus.

Notes (preparatory analytical material; concept paper forthcoming)

• Notes for The Architect and the Agent: a section-by-section corollary analysis of The Multiplier and the Mirror applied to enterprise architecture practice. Derives the theoretical foundation for ASAP’s design: BTABoK as the operationalized FORCE taxonomy; the Mirror at two scales (individual and enterprise); three commitments (FORCE-form coverage, formalizability-asymmetric authority, atrophy-defense via HITL); the architectural Collapse of Execution; the cohort discontinuity; the cascade and the platform’s brakes; the decision bottleneck and architectural moats; sovereignty; three trajectories for the profession; and the platform’s explicit bet on Future 1 + Future 4. Comprehensive (twenty sections, ~9,000 words) by design.
  • Citations: companion citations record, organised in M&M’s own section order.

License

See LICENSE.

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