# ADR-018: Enterprise Completeness Mandate for the AI Development Framework

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Status | Accepted |
| Date | 2026-07-25 |
| Deciders | Platform Architecture |
| Supersedes | — |
| Superseded by | — |
| Extends | [ADR-013](ADR-013.md) |

## Context

ADR-013 established the permanent AI Development Framework under `docs/ai-framework/`. Subsequent service phases still risked shipping CRUD-shaped slices without full production readiness (commands/queries, policies, specifications, OpenAPI, metrics, enterprise completeness verification) unless each phase prompt restated those expectations.

The framework must become the **single source of truth** so every future phase of every future service is production-ready **by default**, without additional prompting.

This ADR does **not** change completed business phases or modify business implementations. It upgrades process documentation and execution rules only.

## Decision

1. Elevate the AI Development Framework into an **Enterprise Development Framework** (same folder `docs/ai-framework/` for backward compatibility; “AI Development Framework” remains the historical name).
2. Every implementation phase **must** satisfy the mandatory [Definition of Done](../../ai-framework/definition-of-done.md).
3. Every implementation phase **automatically** includes the [Mandatory Phase Artifacts](../../ai-framework/mandatory-phase-artifacts.md) (Business Analysis through Self Audit), deriving missing technical components from high-level roadmap text while remaining inside the current phase.
4. **CRUD is never sufficient** for phase completion.
5. Before Complete, verify all dimensions in [Enterprise Completeness](../../ai-framework/enterprise-completeness.md); missing required work is implemented before status change.
6. Enforce [Boundary Rules](../../ai-framework/boundary-rules.md): no foreign service ownership, no logic duplication, no cross-DB access, integrate only via APIs/Events/Providers, never pull future-phase features forward.
7. Quality gates, development loop, phase template, handover, testing/documentation templates, master prompt, and Cursor guidelines are updated to encode these rules.
8. Completed business phases and existing business code are **not** retroactively rewritten by this ADR.

## Consequences

### Positive

- Production readiness becomes the default outcome of every phase
- Phase prompts stay thin; permanent rules live once in the framework
- Clear Completeness / DoD / Boundary vocabulary for agents and reviewers

### Negative

- Higher documentation and verification effort per phase (intentional)

### Neutral

- Path `docs/ai-framework/` retained for compatibility; enterprise docs added alongside
- ADR-013 remains Accepted; this ADR extends it

## Alternatives Considered

1. Keep restating enterprise rules in every phase prompt — rejected (drift, omission)
2. Retroactively refactor all completed services to new package layouts — rejected (out of scope; compatibility)
3. Treat CRUD + tests as enough for “foundation” phases — rejected (not production-ready)

## Related Documents

- [ADR-013](ADR-013.md)
- [AI / Enterprise Framework README](../../ai-framework/README.md)
- [Definition of Done](../../ai-framework/definition-of-done.md)
- [Mandatory Phase Artifacts](../../ai-framework/mandatory-phase-artifacts.md)
- [Enterprise Completeness](../../ai-framework/enterprise-completeness.md)
- [Boundary Rules](../../ai-framework/boundary-rules.md)
- [Quality Gates](../../ai-framework/quality-gates.md)
- [Development Loop](../../ai-framework/development-loop.md)
- [Enterprise Phase Discovery](../../ai-framework/enterprise-phase-discovery.md)
- [Project Principles](../../development/project-principles.md)
- [ADR-019 — Mandatory Enterprise Phase Discovery](ADR-019.md)