The continuous maintenance of a document’s relevance as its context evolves, transforming a static artefact into one that stays current through automated updates and human curation. Seamlessly integrates generated content while keeping workload and cost transparent.
Examples
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The pattern implements a continuous operation concept — a system that keeps working on an artefact without being asked. No page captures that concept yet; the old Storybook reference to it never resolved.
Resources & references
Consequences
- the artefact moves with its context, so what a reader finds reflects now rather than whenever it was last touched by a person
- something is doing work on the document without being asked, and that work has a cost that has to stay visible or it runs unbudgeted
- the document no longer has one author: the reader can't tell what was written, what was regenerated, and what changed since they last read it
Related patterns
Related
- Cost transparency — standing automated work is where unbudgeted cost quietly accrues
- Detached artefact — a detached artefact that keeps being regenerated shades into a living document
- Generated content
- Provenance marking — a document that keeps being regenerated blurs what was written and what was made