Canonical vocabulary

This document defines the canonical controlled vocabulary used by the Eco Rules Catalog.

The machine-readable source of truth is:

• catalog/registry.json

System layers

• ai
• architecture
• code
• data
• network
• process

Categories

Infrastructure (INF)

The INF category captures inefficiencies in the execution environment of software systems.

Families

• DOCKER — container image construction and layering
• COMPOSE — multi-service local orchestration
• K8S — Kubernetes manifests, scheduling, scaling

Examples

• oversized base images
• missing resource limits
• unnecessary sidecars
• unbounded scaling behavior