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Curriculum Changelog
Material changes to scope, terminology, maturity, architecture, and review status are recorded here. Minor punctuation and formatting corrections may be grouped.
Claim boundaryThis is curriculum guidance. It does not by itself prove a production implementation.
architecture mode
A focused view of boundaries, contracts, state, authority, failure paths, and tradeoffs drawn from this chapter.
2026-08-30 — Reference architecture depth release
Added
- A detailed architecture ownership and coverage matrix.
- Four synchronized reference-architecture views: lifecycle, logical components, deployment/trust boundaries, and authority/evidence.
- Governed factory-system inventory, governance operating model, decision rights, ten-family control catalog, and emergency-control semantics.
- Twelve orchestration component families, runtime envelopes, state, stop, failure, recovery, capacity, cost, and compatibility contracts.
- AI systems foundations, permission-aware knowledge and retrieval pipeline, tool/skill/integration contracts, multi-agent collaboration contracts, and a minimum-sufficient autonomy ladder.
- Enterprise operations and FinOps reference plus a control-tower response lifecycle from observation through verified improvement.
- Four failure-injection labs covering authority, orchestration, knowledge, and external capabilities.
- A public architecture hub with lifecycle, plane, component, governance, inventory, pattern, monitoring, data-flow, and evidence views.
Changed
- Deepened knowledge engineering, scheduling/capacity/cost, resilience/disaster recovery, and observability/forensics with specification-level contracts.
- Expanded all navigation, learning, coverage, glossary, reviewer, and search surfaces while preserving Markdown as the source of truth.
- Kept all new chapters review ready: documentation completeness does not advance implementation evidence to validated or operationally proven.
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