PLANNED OPERATED SERVICE

Managed Knowledge Maintenance

Resolve each observed change to affected knowledge and prepare the smallest safe review for a responsible human.

01 · THE SITUATION

“A prompt or configuration change lands after go-live, and nobody knows which guidance or answers are now unsafe.”

Repository, prompt, model, and configuration changes can make client guidance unsafe without anybody noticing.

REPOSITORY → ACTION → ARTIFACT → OUTCOME

Watch the work move.

02 · WHAT IT READS

acme-support-agent/fictional fixture
  • src/
    • agent/orchestrator.py
  • prompts/
    • refund-triage.md
  • tools/
    • refund_api.py
  • evals/
    • probes/refund-routing.yaml
  • config/
    • routing.toml
  • docs/
    • runbook.md
  • events/change-207.jsonRepository, release, prompt, model, and configuration changes in scope.
  • outputs/bindings.jsonThe route from changed identities to affected knowledge.
  • outputs/answers.json + outputs/baseline.jsonThe answers and expected behavior that may now be stale.
  • outputs/handover/transition-record.jsonThe role accountable for semantic or uncertain changes.

03 · WHAT THE FDE DOES

operated serviceIllustrative planned interaction

Review affected knowledge

Planned operated service — illustrative; it does not change application code.

  1. 01Detect an approved change and resolve its affected identities.
  2. 02Classify presentation-only, semantic, moved, dead, or newly uncovered impact.
  3. 03Refresh only confidently presentational items and queue meaningful or uncertain changes for review.

04 · WHAT GETS PRODUCED

outputs/freshness.jsonIllustrative fixture

Grouped impact and freshness review

artifact
outputs/freshness.json
verification
review required

One review grouping the changed threshold, affected answer, runbook section, and behavior baseline.

05 · WORK AVOIDED

You confirm or correct a prepared update instead of auditing and rewriting the knowledge set.

06 · CREDIBILITY BOUNDARY

What this cannot know or do.

  • The service observes only configured signals and maintains knowledge—not the application, incident response, production health, or unseen behavior.
  • This service is not observability, incident response, ITSM, production support, or application maintenance.

07 · NEXT STEP

See where operation begins.

The commercial model follows responsibility—operate, transfer, or govern—without fabricated pricing.