clark-pathfinding

Socratic pathfinding is an approach to architectural planning that uses guided questioning to surface underlying goals, constraints, and principled trade-offs before committing to concrete implementations. It helps teams articulate decisions and roadmap directions systematically.

To map the decision space, you state your architectural objective and context. The agent then applies a pathfinding approach to identify goals, constraints, and trade-offs, ensuring governance and guardrails are respected throughout the exploration process.

Yes, you can use this approach to work from principles up to articulate architecture decision records (ADRs) and tenets. It ensures alignment on features and horizon planning across contexts before any concrete implementation begins.

Architecture pathfinding is governance-aware by design. It surfaces principled trade-offs and ensures that existing guardrails and safety principles are respected while exploring features, ADRs, and roadmap directions.

The best way to start is by stating your architectural objective and context. This initiates a Socratic dialogue where the agent steers toward principled exploration, helping you reason about features, tenets, and horizon planning.