kaizen-agentic/docs/INTEGRATION_PATTERNS.md

Integration Patterns

How kaizen-agentic composes with ecosystem repos by contract — no merged codebases, no duplicated capabilities.

Reference: wiki/EcosystemIntegration.md, KAIZEN-WP-0004.

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Pattern 1 — Helix Forge correlation (agentic-resources)

Problem: Project metrics and fleet session metrics answer different questions.

Contract: Optional helix_session_uid on ADR-004 execution records.

kaizen-agentic	agentic-resources
metrics record at session close	Helix capture → digest store
metrics correlate <uid> read-only lookup	Store.get_digest(session_uid)
HELIX_SESSION_UID env auto-merge	Session.session_uid

Docs: integrations/helix-forge-correlation.md

Boundary: kaizen-agentic does not ingest session JSONL.

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Pattern 2 — activity-core triggers

Problem: Recurring kaizen checks need scheduling without custom cron in this repo.

Contract: ActivityDefinition markdown files declare triggers + actions that invoke kaizen-agentic CLI commands.

Definition	Trigger	CLI command
weekly-metrics-optimize	Cron Mon 08:00	metrics optimize
post-install-metrics-scaffold	kaizen.agent.installed	memory init validation
low-success-rate-review	kaizen.metrics.recorded	metrics show + optimize

Activation handoff (activity-core owners):

1. Copy definitions from kaizen-agentic: docs/integrations/activity-definitions/*.md → activity-core activity-definitions/kaizen-agentic/ (or org-equivalent path per ACT-ADR-002).
2. Register in activity-core index — ensure each definition slug appears in the activity-core catalog consumed by the resolver.
3. Run sync in activity-core: make sync-activity-definitions (or repo-equivalent).
4. Wire triggers — map cron / NATS subjects (kaizen.agent.installed, kaizen.metrics.recorded) to the documented CLI invocations.
5. Enable gradually — set enabled: true per definition after a manual smoke test against a repo with .kaizen/metrics/ populated.
6. Verify credentials — scheduled runs need kaizen-agentic on PATH and any Gitea PyPI extra index if the runner installs from registry (see PACKAGE_RELEASE.md).

kaizen-agentic maintainer checklist:

• Three definition files committed under docs/integrations/activity-definitions/
• activity-core PR or issue opened to register definitions
• Smoke test commands documented below pass on a pilot repo

Smoke test (manual):

# Against a repo with populated metrics
cd /path/to/project-with-kaizen
kaizen-agentic metrics list
kaizen-agentic metrics optimize
# Verify analysis.json written
test -f .kaizen/metrics/optimizer/analysis.json && echo OK

Boundary: kaizen-agentic does not run Temporal schedules.

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Pattern 3 — artifact-store evidence retention

Problem: Optimizer outputs need durable, attributable retention beyond local disk.

Contract: metrics publish registers analysis.json + recommendations.jsonl as an artifact package with retention_class: raw-evidence.

export ARTIFACTSTORE_API_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8000
export ARTIFACTSTORE_API_TOKEN=<token>
kaizen-agentic metrics optimize
kaizen-agentic metrics publish --target .

Manifest: integrations/optimizer-artifact-manifest.md

Boundary: Publish is optional; local .kaizen/metrics/optimizer/ remains canonical.

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Pattern 4 — Canon and knowledge (stretch)

Design-only paths for info-tech-canon and kontextual-engine:

• integrations/canon-template-mapping.md
• integrations/briefs/tdd-workflow-canon-brief.md
• integrations/kontextual-wiki-ingestion-spike.md

No runtime dependency in WP-0004.

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Environment variables

Variable	Used by	Purpose
HELIX_SESSION_UID	metrics record	Fleet session correlation
HELIX_REPO, HELIX_FLAVOR	metrics record	Session context
HELIX_TOKENS, HELIX_INFRA_OVERHEAD_SHARE	metrics record	Fleet cost fields
HELIX_STORE_DB	metrics correlate	Digest lookup database
ARTIFACTSTORE_API_URL	metrics publish	Registry endpoint
ARTIFACTSTORE_API_TOKEN	metrics publish	Write auth bearer token