decision-record-discipline
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Capture a technical decision while the context still exists — the forces at the time, the alternatives and why each was rejected, the assumption it rests on, its reversibility, and the condition that should reopen it. Use whenever a choice is being made that someone will later have to live with or undo: picking a library, a data model, a protocol, a boundary, a deployment topology; accepting a tradeoff or a known limitation; choosing NOT to build something; adding a workaround, a retry, a magic constant, or a guard whose reason is not obvious from the code. Trigger on "let's go with", "we decided", "why did we do it this way", "ADR", "design doc", "document this decision", "for now we'll just", "TODO: revisit", "leave it, it works", or a code review question that gets answered verbally. Governs choices; claim-provenance-discipline governs findings. It does not make the decision for you.
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