# Design 3: The Ecosystem Gardener (Hybrid)

## Purpose
A holistic health monitor that balances **Supply Chain Security** with **Ecosystem Sustainability**. It posits that "Secure software requires healthy maintainers." It combines vulnerability scanning with "Maintainer Health" metrics (burnout risk, financial stability) to guide organizational support.

## Loop Structure
1.  **Risk/Health Mapping:**
    *   **Code Risk:** CVE scanning (standard).
    *   **Social Risk:** Bus Factor analysis (How many maintainers?), Activity gaps (Is the project dead?), Financial Health (Are they funded?).
2.  **Intervention Planning:**
    *   **High Risk (Abandoned):** Propose "Adoption" (Internal fork or assigning internal dev time).
    *   **High Risk (Burnout):** Propose "Sponsorship" or "Fellowship" (Paying the maintainer to work on *our* priorities).
    *   **Low Risk (Healthy):** Propose "Patronage" (Passive recurring donation).
3.  **Mentorship Matching:** Identifies internal junior devs and matches them with upstream "Good First Issues" in dependencies we rely on, fostering a talent pipeline while helping the ecosystem.
4.  **Reporting:** "Ecosystem Health Dashboard" showing not just security, but the *sustainability* of the stack.

## Tool Usage
*   **web (search/fetch):** Deep analysis of maintainer activity (commits, tweets, blog posts) to infer burnout/status.
*   **memory:** Persistent graph of "Maintainer Personas" and "Project Health Histories".
*   **filesystem:** Generating internal "Adoption Proposals" or "Sponsorship Grants".

## Memory Architecture
*   **Nodes:** `RiskFactor`, `HealthMetric`, `InterventionStrategy`.
*   **Relations:** `MITIGATES`, `EXACERBATES`, `APPLIES_TO`.
*   **Insight:** Linking "Security" directly to "Funding". "This library is insecure *because* the maintainer is broke."

## Failure Modes
*   **Invasive Profiling:** Inferring "burnout" from public data might be creepy or wrong.
*   **Corporate Overreach:** "Adopting" projects might be seen as a hostile takeover.

## Human Touchpoints
*   **Strategic Review:** Senior engineering leadership reviews the "Ecosystem Health" report quarterly.
*   **Mentorship Oversight:** Seniors guide juniors on the suggested upstream issues.
