Workflow and period
The controlled workflow, action, and applicable time boundary.
Technical overview
Architecture and Security
Pulse is designed to attach to the execution path without replacing orchestration, workflow systems, business applications, identity platforms, or systems of record.
Deployment postures
Instrumentation should match the operating need.
The same workflow can progress through multiple postures as evidence, criteria, security review, and operational confidence mature.
| Posture | Data and placement | Operational effect | Primary purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Historical diagnostic | Offline records and source evidence | No production effect | Reconstruct and establish findings |
| Replay validation | Preserved events or artifacts | No production effect | Test criteria, remediation, and reproducibility |
| Shadow assurance | Live or replicated event feed | No change to production outcome | Observe what Pulse would return |
| Runtime governance | Instrumented execution call | Allow, escalate, or block | Govern the action before consequence |
Conceptual request and response
The token defines what Pulse needs. It does not retrieve every source record itself.
The client or integration layer provides the required fields and provenance from approved systems.
Workflow event
Criteria token
Authority context
Pulse check
Structured result
Decision Artifact
A production implementation must define required fields, trust boundaries, signing, replay protection, latency, availability, and failure behavior.
Criteria package
Minimum information for a testable execution check.
The exact schema is implementation-specific, but the operating model requires enough context to reproduce what was evaluated.
Rule identifier and version
The approved standard in force and its effective date.
Testable condition
The condition Pulse must evaluate and the required result category.
Authority requirement
The role, token, delegation, or approval required to act.
Required fields and provenance
The inputs, source systems, and evidence references needed for evaluation.
Framework mapping
Applicable obligations and findings relationships where supported.
Security review
Production readiness requires explicit answers.
This page is intentionally a conceptual architecture, not a claim that every production control has been completed for every deployment.
- Authentication and service identity
- Signing-key custody and rotation
- Replay prevention and artifact TTL
- Pseudonymous actor tokens
- Data minimization and retention
- Encryption and network boundaries
- Availability, failover, and fail-closed design
- Human escalation and override governance
- Logging, monitoring, and incident response
- Change control for criteria and versions
Evidence discipline
Publish only technical behaviors that have been demonstrated in the referenced environment. Separate prototype evidence, local validation, pilot evidence, and production assurance.
Bring the workflow and the execution call.
The technical review begins with placement, required inputs, authority, result handling, evidence, and failure behavior.