Tiered Enforcement Architecture
- Entity ID:
ent-20260419-a001b23c0002 - Type:
concept - Scope:
shared - Status:
active - Aliases: three-tier-enforcement, hooks-claudemd-prompt-tiers, community-tiered-architecture
Description
Community-consensus enforcement stack for complex projects that emerged from synthesis across issues #42863, #44461, #45550. Tier 1 (Hooks) handles hard constraints that must always fire: file scope limits, model-cost guards, test-skip detection, commit-message validation, dangerous-command blocking. Tier 2 (CLAUDE.md) handles session-context norms enforced when remembered: architectural decisions, workflow preferences, documentation requirements, style guides. Tier 3 (User prompt) handles per-turn task-level instructions: immediate scope, output format, current-turn constraints.
Key claims
- Tiered Enforcement is Community-Converged Architecture
Relations
- Tiered Enforcement Architecture --[informed_by]--> CLAUDE.md Category Error (Handbook vs Lock)
- Tiered Enforcement Architecture --[uses]--> Hooks System
- Fresh Context Validator Pattern --[implements]--> Tiered Enforcement Architecture