docs(prds): add Project Foglight BRD for HVE Core integration

[Namit Tanasseri (namitts82)]

Adds \docs/prds/foglight.md\ — the Project Foglight Business Requirements Document — for community review before any implementation work is proposed.

Description

Adds the Project Foglight BRD addressing the structural gap that standard TPM tooling has when applied to intelligent systems (RAG copilots, agents, model-driven workflows).

MVP pilot pack proposed:

Artifact	Type	Purpose
Foglight Orchestrator	Agent	Interprets system telemetry, flags probabilistic risk
Confidence Dashboard	Prompt	Generates structured status reports with drift indicators
Decision Ledger	Skill	Persistent audit trail for model and prompt versioning

Type of Change

• Documentation update

Related Issue

Related to discussion #1387

Checklist

• Documentation is updated
• Files follow existing naming conventions
• Changes are backwards compatible
• This PR does not contain any sensitive or NDA information

[Namit Tanasseri (namitts82)]

David (david.ratcliffe@microsoft.com)
Parag (paragalurkar@microsoft.com)

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[Bill Berry (WilliamBerryiii)]

Namit Tanasseri (@namitts82) - this is really, really well formed. I am going to have to digest this a bit as is does exactly what you intend it to do ... wrapping multiple workflows into a coherent and cohesive agentic experience. The one place I have a hang up on right now, is that per NIST RAI specs, this gets close to the definition of "over functioning" for users. My secondary concern is that while I 100% KNOW this will work, and work really well, it does have risk from burning tokens from poor/weak input framing by the user. I'm going to take this one to the core maintainer team and let them think it through.

Also, a massive thanks for building a BRD first as a proposal! I really need to update the contributing docs to suggest this as a proposal path for new AI capabilities ... strong work!

[Namit Tanasseri (namitts82)]

Namit Tanasseri (@namitts82) - this is really, really well formed. I am going to have to digest this a bit as is does exactly what you intend it to do ... wrapping multiple workflows into a coherent and cohesive agentic experience. The one place I have a hang up on right now, is that per NIST RAI specs, this gets close to the definition of "over functioning" for users. My secondary concern is that while I 100% KNOW this will work, and work really well, it does have risk from burning tokens from poor/weak input framing by the user. I'm going to take this one to the core maintainer team and let them think it through.

Also, a massive thanks for building a BRD first as a proposal! I really need to update the contributing docs to suggest this as a proposal path for new AI capabilities ... strong work!

Thanks Bill, really appreciate the close read and both callouts.

On "over-functioning": that's a fair thing to pressure-test. A few of the design choices were aimed at keeping the human in the loop rather than deciding for them: confidence is always tied to a named decision and the orchestrator coaches toward a tool rather than making the call (Stage 6 is co-author, not decide); we deliberately avoid composite scores; and every artifact has to carry its evidence, remaining uncertainty, and a refresh trigger. If it helps, I'm happy to add a short RAI guardrail note making the "surface evidence, don't auto-resolve" stance explicit against NIST AI RMF language.

On token burn: also fair. The pilot pack is intentionally the smallest useful one, context gathering is bounded, and the orchestrator is meant to flag insufficient signal and offer to defer rather than force an artifact. I could make that an explicit input-sufficiency gate before any heavy generation, and add token/cost-per-session as a Phase 1 guardrail to actually measure it.

Glad to fold either of these in before it goes to the maintainer team.

[Bill Berry (WilliamBerryiii)]

Namit Tanasseri (@namitts82) - sorry for the delay on this ... been dealing with some security hardening and other workflows that are taking priority. I've not forgotten about this ... just still mulling over the boundaries and what lines we want to hold in HVE Core. I absolutely recognize what's possible, and what's practical, and this fits cleanly into both buckets ... I'm still trying to figure out with the other maintainers if we should ... thanks for hanging tight for a bit while we process the ramifications and impact, assess how this would fundamentally alter the projects forward trajectory and the impact on existing workflows ... like do we need a composite workflow builder that can take our primitives in and build abstractions over it like this does? Should we raise the level of abstraction fully towards workflows like this. All hard decisions to reflect on as the industry grapples with the economics of all this rapid change.

[Bill Berry (WilliamBerryiii)]

For those in the community, we've had some changes inside the organization that have brought new opportunities to our roadmap. We are working as quickly as we can to clarify our stance on agentic workload compositions such as this. I need to ask for continued patience as the core maintainers continue to discuss updates to project direction. We will communicate through the project's discussions as we finalize our conversations.