Systems don’t announce when they stop matching the design. The gap widens in the dark — fastest in the AI-acceleration era. ContextDx surfaces the divergence while it’s still cheap to fix.
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// definition
Definition
Architecture drift
The widening gap between the architecture you designed and the architecture that actually runs. Each shortcut, workaround, and unreviewed change moves the real system a little further from the intended one — silently, until the cost of the gap becomes someone’s emergency.
// the difference
Designed
The intended architecture — your ADRs, your governing intent, the boundaries the team agreed to.
Actual
What the code actually does today, derived from the repo. ContextDx holds both, so the gap between them stops being a guess.
// how it works
Capture decisions as governing intent — the boundaries and rules the architecture is supposed to hold to.
Board Builder maps what the code really does today — semantically, across services and integrations.
git-diff sync re-derives the actual on every change, so divergence from the intended design surfaces while it’s still small.
// the problem
AI agents scaffold services and ship code faster than any architect can review. The gap between what exists and what anyone intended isn’t widening linearly anymore — it’s compounding. The teams that stay ahead are the ones who can see divergence as it happens, not after it’s load-bearing.
// keep going
// designed vs actual
See the gap between intended and actual architecture while it’s still cheap to close.
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