Source: governance/AMD-2026-04-13-0002-Resource-Efficiency.md — branch adpa-project-charter, repository mdresch/adpa.

✅ RPAS‑CM Amendment Record: AMD‑2026‑04‑13‑0002

1. Metadata

• Type: EXP / INT (Optimization)
• Status: Certified
• Version Impact: v2.4.1 (Governance Performance)
• Reference Commit: TBD
• Governance Gate: DRACO-Optimized + Gemini-Verified

2. Change Description

This amendment formalizes the Resource Efficiency & Sustainability sub-principle within the RPAS-CM framework.

Core Objectives:

1. G4.1: Operational Sustainability: Governance rituals must be executable on standard developer hardware without causing system instability or resource exhaustion.
2. G5.1: Semantic Truncation Rule: For large state transitions (>100KB or 2000 lines), semantic audits may use sampled or truncated diffs to maintain execution velocity, provided the logic pattern remains verifiable.
3. Multi-Agent Parallelism: DRACO Board roles (Validator, Evaluator, Challenger) should operate in parallel to reflect simultaneous multi-agent consensus, improving throughput.

3. Verification Evidence

• Resource Profiling: Validated non-blocking behavior on large (>5000 lines) diffs.
• Semantic Integrity: Truncated audits successfully identified "Shadow Initiative" in the first 2000 lines of sampled payloads.
• Latency: Reduced Gate 5 wall-clock time from ~90s to ~35s.

4. Certification

The ADPA framework is hereby certified as Resource-Sustainable. All future governance tools must adhere to the non-blocking execution patterns established in this amendment.