validate-architecture-spec

To validate enterprise architecture artifacts, you run a validation check against the six-artifact contract to enforce structural completeness, logical and physical consistency, and traceability across discover, specify, design, build, and run stages. This produces a validation-result.yaml file showing passed or failed status and all blocking violations.

Architecture validation in the enterprise SDLC is the process of blocking invalid architecture artifacts early by verifying that derived architecture YAML files satisfy decision-manifest integrity rules, NFR delivery mapping, and tech-stack schema discipline before delivery proceeds.

You check NFR mapping and pattern citation by running a validation that ensures every NFR characteristic is explicitly delivered and that all pattern citations are valid and grounded within the architecture output, preventing untraceable design decisions.

Yes, you can detect cycles and verify capability coverage by applying validation checks that enforce component shape consistency and cycle absence across both logical and physical architecture graphs to ensure structural integrity.

You verify inventory provenance and byte-for-byte KB grounding by running a validation process that checks the systems-inventory artifact against knowledge base sources to ensure exact matching and traceable architecture origins.

If technical risks structure or stage ordering fails validation, the system blocks delivery by logging the violations in a validation-result.yaml file, ensuring that risk shapes and refined quality-profile delta log integrity are corrected before proceeding.