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City Hall Standards Workbench Proposal

Project Type​

Desktop application

Readiness Level​

draft

Governing Standards​

  • Proposal: PPS
  • Workspace: WGS
  • Delivery: DRS
  • Supporting: CTS, ATS, AAS

Problem Statement​

City Hall standards are readable as documents, but routine checks still require manual inspection across directories, manifests, changelogs, and validation checklists.

Mission​

Build a local desktop workbench that helps maintainers inspect standards, run non-mutating audits, open the relevant source documents, and record follow-up tasks without changing source files unexpectedly.

Design Boundaries​

The application belongs in the local City Hall workspace and may read standard directories, manifests, changelogs, validation checklists, and audit outputs.

The application does not define standards, auto-promote maturity, rewrite specifications, publish releases, or replace the governing documents.

Success Criteria​

  • The app lists every registered standard directory.
  • The app shows README, specification, manifest, changelog, adoption guide, validation checklist, examples, templates, and validators status.
  • The app can run the WGS City Hall audit in read-only mode.
  • The app records proposed follow-up tasks as ATS-compatible records.
  • The app can be used without network access.

Failure Criteria​

  • The app modifies standard documents without explicit user action.
  • The app treats audit warnings as automatic authority to change maturity status.
  • The app hides validation gaps from maintainers.

Constraints​

  • Technical: Prefer native local file reads and explicit audit commands.
  • Scope: Standards visibility and maintenance workflow only.
  • Runtime: Windows desktop first.
  • Data: No secrets, credentials, or private user notes are copied into task records.

Risks​

  • Risk: UI convenience could make the workbench feel more authoritative than the standards.
  • Mitigation: Display source file links and governing standard references beside each status.

Roadmap​

  1. Proposal.
  2. Read-only inventory prototype.
  3. Audit integration and ATS task export.
  4. DRS packaging review.
  5. Candidate release.