Architecture drift detection with a Drift Index leadership can watch
Drift is silent until it's expensive. ArchSteer computes a Drift Index from your declared intent and trends it over every snapshot, so regressions show up as a number — not a postmortem.
Drift as a first-class metric
Conformance against intent becomes a single percentage that trends over time and belongs on the weekly engineering review.
The ratchet stops backsliding
CI blocks only net-new violations, so drift can decrease but never silently increase while features keep shipping.
An evolution feed for context
Every drift change is explained: a new dependency, a new datastore, a boundary crossing — captured as a git-log for your architecture.
Try it on your repo
Run `archsteer xray` on your repo to see this in under a minute, then declare intent when you're ready to govern.
FAQ
How is the Drift Index calculated?
It's the inverse of conformance: the share of (rule, component) checks that currently fail against your declared intent.
Do I need to model everything first?
No — declare one invariant and you get a meaningful drift signal immediately.
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