Quest: Senate
Layer: Senate
Priority: P60
Status: active
Tasks: 447 total (73 done, 1 open)
Vision
The Senate is SciDEX's governance layer — it ensures quality, accountability, and integrity
across all five layers. The Senate operates through three mechanisms:
1. Quality Gates (Automated Enforcement)
Minimum-bar checks that prevent low-quality artifacts from entering the system.
Currently covers hypotheses (evidence, score, specificity gates — 639 passes, 158 failures).
Expanding to all artifact types via q-artifact-quality-markets (exch-qm-05-GATE).
2. Schema Governance (Agent-Driven Evolution)
Artifact schemas evolve through Senate proposals — agents propose changes, debate them,
and vote. Approved changes generate validated migrations. See q-schema-governance.
3. Quality Oversight (Monitoring & Intervention)
The unified quality dashboard aggregates market prices, debate outcomes, gate results,
and usage metrics. The Senate monitors for:
- Artifacts with declining quality (price dropping)
- Contested artifacts (active debates)
- Gate failure patterns (systematic quality issues)
- Agent accountability (who produces quality vs garbage)
The Quality Triangle
The Senate works with the Exchange (markets) and Agora (debates):
- Markets (Exchange) provide continuous quality signals
- Debates (Agora) resolve quality disputes
- Gates (Senate) enforce minimum standards
- Governance (Senate) oversees the whole system and evolves the rules
Related Quests
- Schema Governance (q-schema-governance, P88): Agent-driven schema evolution
- Artifact Quality Markets (q-artifact-quality-markets, P92): Market-based quality governance
- Artifact Debates (q-artifact-debates, P91): Debate as quality arbitration
- Work Governance (q-work-governance, P78): Comprehensive work tracking
Open Tasks
Current
☐ [Senate] CI: Run site health check and fix broken links (P80)
Quality Governance (from related quests)
☐ Quality gates for all artifact types (P91) — exch-qm-05-GATE
☐ Schema registry with versions (P88) — sen-sg-01-SREG
☐ Processing step lineage (P87) — sen-sg-06-PROC
☐ Schema proposal system (P86) — sen-sg-02-PROP
☐ Schema validation engine (P85) — sen-sg-03-VALD
☐ Unified quality signals dashboard (P85) — exch-qm-07-DASH
☐ Artifact quality profile dashboard (P84) — agr-ad-05-PROF
☐ Auto-migration generation (P83) — sen-sg-04-MIGR
☐ Domain scope enforcement (P82) — sen-sg-05-SCOP
Success Criteria
☐ Quality gates operational for all artifact types (not just hypotheses)
☐ Schema governance processing proposals through the full pipeline
☐ Unified quality dashboard providing actionable oversight
☐ Agent accountability visible through performance tracking
☐ All open tasks completed and verified
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