Governance-Aware Weak-Signal Architecture for Grid Anomaly Triage

This report presents a narrow architectural bridge note on operator-facing grid anomaly triage under uncertainty.

Its central claim is limited: grid and energy-system monitoring often encounter weak, partial, and locally ambiguous signals before stronger operational significance is justified. In such settings, the architectural problem is not only detection, but promotion control — how bounded findings should influence attention before they are allowed to become stronger anomaly state.

The report organizes this problem around four bounded stages:

bounded findings → provisional candidate meanings → attentional escalation → governed promotion

Its contribution is intentionally compact. It defines a minimal contract surface for what a bounded finding contains, what a provisional candidate state contains, what escalation actions are permitted, and what conditions should be satisfied before promotion occurs. It does not propose dispatch optimization, market design, control logic, or certified deployment behavior.

This report should be read as an architectural applicability note, not as a utility operations specification or deployment claim.

Related papers and supporting repository:

https://github.com/putmanmodel/spanda-architectural-framework