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The governance spec

The 34-practice register

HIVE encodes all 34 ITIL 4 management practices as a runtime: each owned by an agent, each with a defined trust tier that decides what runs autonomously and what surfaces to a person first.

Operational Runs autonomously under governance: bounded, reversible actions inside its trust tier.
Human-gated Surfaces to a person who holds final authority before a consequential action proceeds.
34
practices encoded
25
operational
9
human-gated
3
categories
Category 1

General Management (14)

6 operational · 8 human-gated

Architecture Management

Human-gated

Validates architectural compliance on change and composition proposals; detects cycles, fan-out, depth.

Continual Improvement

Operational

Analyzes incident patterns for systemic fixes; opens improvement initiatives.

Information Security Management

Operational

Screens changes for code-exec, SQL-injection, and data-exfiltration patterns.

Knowledge Management

Operational

Captures root causes and resolutions into reusable service memory.

Measurement and Reporting

Operational

Generates periodic performance reports; detects SLA-violation trends.

Organizational Change Management

Human-gated

Generates communication plans for pivots, migrations, and feedback.

Portfolio Management

Human-gated

Surfaces promotion and retirement candidates to human decision-makers.

Project Management

Human-gated

Tracks multi-phase initiatives; surfaces risks and blockers to sponsors.

Relationship Management

Human-gated

Monitors satisfaction and complaints; surfaces relationship risk to account owners.

Risk Management

Operational

Evaluates workflows and compositions for risk; flags high-risk for human review.

Service Financial Management

Human-gated

Tracks token spend; enforces budget envelopes: alert at 80 percent, enforce at 100 percent.

Strategy Management

Human-gated

Surfaces capability-investment and build-vs-buy recommendations.

Supplier Management

Operational

Monitors provider health; triggers failover on degradation.

Workforce and Talent Management

Human-gated

Tracks agent utilization; identifies capability gaps.

Category 2

Service Management (17)

16 operational · 1 human-gated

Availability Management

Operational

Watches health and degradation against response-time, error-rate, and uptime thresholds.

Business Analysis

Operational

Decomposes requests into structured requirements; maps to the catalog.

Capacity and Performance Management

Operational

Forecasts capacity; extrapolates against an 80 percent threshold.

Change Enablement

Operational

Runs the virtual CAB (security, architecture, and validation) on proposed changes.

Incident Management

Operational

Classifies severity, checks the Known-Error DB, drives resolution.

IT Asset Management

Operational

Tracks model, prompt, and tool assets; flags end-of-life and license issues.

Monitoring and Event Management

Operational

Correlates error and alert events; raises incidents on threshold breach.

Problem Management

Operational

Detects recurrence within a 48-hour window; opens problem records.

Release Management

Operational

Shadow, canary, then production promotion; auto-rollback at a 5 percent error rate.

Service Catalogue Management

Operational

Promotes stable workflow patterns into the catalog.

Service Configuration Management

Operational

Maintains the CMDB; detects drift from baselines.

Service Continuity Management

Operational

Validates checkpoint and recovery; runs scheduled continuity tests.

Service Design

Human-gated

Proposes service designs; escalates to human authority.

Service Desk

Operational

Classifies and routes user and service requests to the right catalog entry.

Service Level Management

Operational

Checks SLA compliance against targets.

Service Request Management

Operational

Validates and fulfills catalog requests.

Service Validation and Testing

Operational

Validates test results against thresholds before release.

Category 3

Technical Management (3)

3 operational · 0 human-gated

Deployment Management

Operational

Selects a blue-green, canary, or rolling strategy; executes deploys.

Infrastructure and Platform Management

Operational

Watches infrastructure metrics: DB pool, queue depth, disk, and CPU.

Software Development and Management

Operational

Quality-gates synthesized agent code.

This register is grounded in the HIVE governance engine (Apache-2.0). The tiers shown reflect HIVE's implemented agents: what runs autonomously today versus what is routed to a person for final authority. It describes the operating model itself, distinct from any single customer deployment, whose policies and trust boundaries are configured to fit that organization.

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